Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Exit strategy

Okay, how the HELL do I get out of this daily blog??? Seriously. 41 (!) posts later…I feel like Donald Rumsfeld…I mean…WHAT is the exit strategy??? (nothing like a little neo-con metaphor to set the right tone). It’s the equivalent of a part-time job…for a high school newspaper. I have seriously considered several solutions to achieve shut-down or make this blog financially viable:
  • Outsource this thing to India. I mean…what’s an extra $1.35 in expense a day??? I give more to Sally Struthers. But then I realized my humor doesn’t exactly translate (“Riyadh Rockettes” in Hindu doesn’t mean nothing but trouble)
  • TRY selling all of your email addresses (didn’t know the blog logged such things, now didja?). But apparently….the internet is SATURATED with all of your email addresses ALREADY. Thanks a freakin’ lot. (How much internet shopping do you people do??) Now the email addresses of my Brazilian travel mates – THOSE I have made….I mean I COULD make….some serious money off of!!!
  • Sell advertising on this thing. …but 8 hits off of mostly-McConville-named visitors does NOT make a very persuasive sales pitch. I guess the Irish-Catholic-albino demographic is not what it used to be...there’s only so many lite beer/suntan lotion advertisers out there.
  • Just write a couple of lousy posts in a row and that should take care of it…what? I’ve already done that and Rita’s the only one reading this thing anyway?

I figure the inevitable exit strategy will involve some HUGE blow-up in the McConville clan…The savemethecall blog will just flame out in a barrage of restraining orders…just like the last one =)

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