Selling Out

Remember the first time your favorite band "sold out" to the man? Maybe it was when KISS did that god-awful disco album, "Dynasty." Ugh. Or when Metallica did an album of all covers? Or when Sugar Ray stopped doing hardcore punk... and then sold out again when lead singer Mark McGrath started hosting Extra?

Pretty bad, right? But then, at some point, you got older, and you thought to yourself "What's wrong with trying something different?" or maybe "They probably just needed the money."

So what's my point? I guess that I'm "Selling Out."

No, I promise I won't release a disco album. Though if I did, it would be damn good.

You may have noticed in the last month or so, I've done a couple of "sponsored posts." In blogger-speak, that means I've sold out. Blogging for fun and profit.

I don't even know how I found payperpost. I was just blog-surfing one day, and some blog I visited had a payperpost link, so I clicked, and the next thing I knew, I was signing up!

I'm still new to all of this, so I'm not quite sure where this is going. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an internet millionaire. Or even a thousandaire. I'm hoping for hundredaire. Maybe enough money to buy some Christmas presents-- or some new tile for the bathroom shower. Or that motion-sensor light at Lowe's I've had my eye on.

"But wait!" my loyal readers say. "What about us?" (I like to fantasize that I have loyal readers. Don't spoil my delusion.)

The way I see it, this will only improve my blogging. First of all, payperpost requires me to write at least one non-profit post for every "sponsored' post I write. Second, I promise to only write about things that I can relate to my own life... preferably with humorous anecdotes... or discussions of KISS doing disco.