Been around the world...
I’m a purveyor of spirits, dope included, and when chance affords, a thief, but I ain’t no fucking hypocrite.
Al Swearengen
I was going to post on another topic today but awoke to discover the internet has something to say about the way I sling HTML. Hiram protests:
NLP was fun while it lasted. Now, as a porn link site, it’s just plain lame, which is why I removed the NLP atom feed from my syndication client.
Hiram presumably objects to the gallery since I’ve had some form of advertising on the main page since, like, late 2003. Perhaps he missed these two posts, which explain my reasoning clearly. Perhaps he overlooked the journal-only feed. Perhaps he simply didn’t notice I’ve been using some of this money to shoot nudes and post them here for fucking free (I know, I know, the rest of the Natalie series is coming—I’m still making some back-end tweaks).
The artists and writers of old had their rich patrons and their promoters. I have my wankers.
Most people come here looking for visual depictions of sex acts—this is the inevitable side effect of running what’s essentially a publicly available, conveniently indexed repository of my sexual history. Though I call them wankers, the ones who do go ahead and sign up for a porn site, thereby making me money, are near and dear to my heart—nearer and dearer, at any rate, than freeloading critics.
And I’ve made a decent compromise, I think. Unlike GM or Dell or even Google Adsense, my advertisers have precisely zero to say about the nature of my content (indeed I’m openly critical of the jizz biz). Unlike a book or magazine, NLP affords me complete editorial autonomy and freedom from the pressure to make my writing conform to mainstream expectations. The more money I make here the more I can fund whatever off-the-wall projects come to mind. As I said a long time ago:
Natalia asked what I want out of life. “I want to have sex with beautiful women,†I said, “make a decent living, and completely change the way people think. In any order you like.â€
In a world full of phonies and hypocrites, I’ve been refreshingly honest about what I’m doing here.
Last but certainly not least, let’s just say the political climate in my home country isn’t exactly conducive to this project. How many bloggers/writers/artists/whatever in the Divided States risk time in a federal penitentiary?
So Hiram, be fucked. And don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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Theloneoux | Aug 27, 09:06 AM | #
Hey man,I love the site and especially love that you quoted Al Swearengen, one of my most favorite cocksuckers ever written for tv. I really enjoy watching him hold forth in one of those introspective moments while he is getting a sloppy blowjob; try that out sometime…really get in touch with your emotions! Keep on having the good times man, I know I will…
Rob
stinker | Aug 27, 04:43 PM | #
i think it is going to your head. i come here to read, not wank, because you were interesting. if you get too full of yourself, like many americans, it gets old quickly.you are full of hypocricy. who isnt? only the arrogant claim to be perfect.
i’m glad you can make a buck as an internet pimp. maybe someday you’ll even get some decent pay for your writing.
stay humble or become an asshole?
Lex | Aug 27, 05:58 PM | #
Thel – I find it difficult enough to think when I’m getting a sloppy blowjob, much less come up with a drawn-out monologue.stinker – Your lecture is itself such a shining example of the humility you preach, full of condescension toward me and Americans in general. Good going. Isn’t this the very definition of hypocrisy?
Sadly I won’t be taking your advice. I already make decent pay for my writing, thanks, and I’m not here to entertain dumb cocksuckers such as yourself.
Hiram | Aug 31, 07:20 PM | #
This is funny. Just when I was considering to write a comment for the Model Release story, the gist of which would have been “Hey, you’re actually writing again! Good!”, I saw your rant answering my criticism.It’s clear from your choice of words that my objections to the direction NLP seemed to be taking did not fall on deaf ears. Such holy indignation! Freud would smile.
But it seems you did start writing again, instead of merely peddling porn sites. So, if you don’t mind, I’ll actually re-subscribe to the Atom feed. If you do mind, well, do let me know. It’s your party, after all.
Lex | Aug 31, 08:38 PM | #
My indignation, dear reader, stems from people’s shocking sense of entitlement.A quick browse through the journal archives reveals I’ve written quite a bit this summer, moreso than in the previous six months combined. Your objections to the direction the site is taking don’t even make any sense.
And even if you did have a valid point to make you ruined your credibility by petulantly stamping your feet instead of offering up anything constructive.
If Freud were alive he’d probably tell you to go out and get laid.
Anyway, do as you wish.
Hiram | Sep 1, 05:27 AM | #
To wrap this up: right now, the atom feed for NLP shows five entries, three of which are ‘porn peddling’ entries, and two of which are ‘writing’ (one long, one very short). If I recall correctly, not too long ago the ‘porn peddling’ entries were few and far between, so something did change.The ‘sense of entitlement’ you speak of is something I encounter on my own weblog as well. I have about a thousand daily visitors, which is quite a lot for a (mainly) dutch-language weblog. Those people visit regularly and this means the come to expect things. Sometimes they express these expectations. It’s unavoidable, and in a sense, it’s a compliment. Which also is how you might have interpreted my initial criticism. Ads for porn sites are all over, good writing is hard to find.
As for Freud, he was more interested in spotting repression and denial than in advocating sexual adventurousness. But rest assured: the Nerve ad I am looking at right now, below the comment field, urges me to ’[f]ind out what [I’ve] been missing’, but I’m not missing too much with three girls, ready to go. Not all your readers are ‘wankers’ who never (what’s the expression?) ‘get any’, Lex.
Lex | Sep 1, 01:32 PM | #
Hiram, you use Textpattern right? So you must be aware Txp allows for splitting content into sections, and for creating RSS feeds for specific sections… correct?If you don’t like the gallery don’t go there. Use the journal-only RSS feed. Simple… you never have to see that horrible porn again. I’m running two weblogs under the same domain. Get it? Nothing about the journal has changed.
If you really have three girls lined up then why are you so worked up over a damned website?
Hiram | Sep 5, 04:57 PM | #
Because even with three girls at his disposal, a man likes to read a little, every now and then. I also work and watch the news and go for a walk, sometimes.The separate atom feed for the journal section is a Good Thing, indeed.