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I Write Things Elsewhere As Well

My favorite blogger ever, The Bloggess, does this little post at the end of each week to show where else her writing has appeared during that week.  Because she has such a rabid following that her readers want to know what she’s doing ALL THE TIME.  I am not personally in that situation (ahem) but thought at the end of the month I’d just do a little reflection, and link to all the posts I’ve done on other blogs throughout the month.  So, here is November, in a bloggy nutshell.

nutshellI wrote about smallpox and new guinea laughing disease on Bizarre Medical.  One freaked me out way more than the other.  Can you guess which?

I wrote about Carytown Burgers & Fries on Richmond VA Presents.  Now I want a burger.  Damn.

I wrote about co-worker gifts, World of Warcraft bloggers, free wallpaper sites, Harry Potter fan sites, and gluten-free recipe sites on Very Best Sites.

I wrote about Steven Warrick and his fabulous art, and about a funny Harry Potter comic he did, as well as some yoda art, some sexy women, and some barfy cute animals on Bizarre Bytes.

I waxed poetic about my Le Crueset pot on The Cool Consumer, and posted way too many recipes to link to on Crock Pot Ninja.

I’ve also been working my toukas off on mine and Angelica’s Independent Study about J.D. Salinger.  Check it out!

That’s about all that’s available online right now, other than the posts I’ve posted here, which you should have already read, and if you didn’t it’s not that hard to go into “recent posts” (which I’m not even gonna link to) to read them.  Plus, you read them.  You LIKE Naked Cowboys.

Stay tuned for a Friday rant of epic proportions, and for a Monday update on Alligator Fish Pig and other fascinating topics.

Interwebs – A New Website Called TheCoolConsumer.Com

So one day my buddy Micah called me up and said, “you know about the internet and stuff, right?” and I was all, “Kind of” and he was all, “I have this idea.”

The idea was that he wanted people to send him stuff for free and he’d review it on the internet.  Me too.  He wanted me to get free stuff and review it on the internet.  And he talked to his friend Angie, and she works for a promotional products company and can get free samples sometimes, so we wanted HER to have free stuff and review it on the internet.

While the page isn’t designed to make money, we like money a lot.  We’re big fans.  The real point of the page is to review stuff and tell people honestly what we think of the product.  I mean, we’re probably never going to say that something is the crappiest product ever, but we might hint at it with code.

So we launched http://www.thecoolconsumer.com and we’ve reviewed two things so far.  We have more in the works, and we’re offering a limited amount of advertising on the page in order to recoup my expense for the url and the hosting.  Nitty gritty, I know, but that’s the business of the interwebs.

So, if you read this blog (this one, right here, the one you’re reading now), you can totally get a link for FREE on our link page, wherein I will write a little blurb about your awesomeness and put a link on your website, so long as you do the same for me.

I am totally not feeling like a big internet link whore, like I thought I would.  It’s not personal, right?  It’s business.  And how can this product review website garner enough attention to get us our own show on The Discovery Channel or NatGeo if we don’t have killer links and strategically placed yet tasteful advertising?

Next up, a blog about my embarrassing and painful skin condition.  I know you can hardly wait for that!