The 400 Club

Clay Travis and I went to law school together.  He got a legal job and decided he didn't like it. Truth be told, nobody really does.

So he quit. 

He started writing instead.  He developed a following, wrote two best selling books and last month had 500,000 visits to his website. 

He doesn't return my emails now, but I'm sure he makes a nice living, doing what he loves. 

Against this backdrop, it doesn't sound very impressive to say that this blog got 400 hits in August. 

It doesn't sound impressive until I remember that less than a year ago that I posted twice as often and this space still didn't get 100 hits in a month.  That's right, the blog is slowing taking off--August was the second best month ever--and I want to thank you all for it.  Please come back.  Often.

The long term goal is to sell ads in this space and make a living entertaining you.  It's getting closer all the time.

That said, the blog is at a bit of a crossroads.  The sports website for which I write (also for free), Bleacher Report, has a built-in audience that provides me, literally, 100 times the audience my personal blog gets.  If I want to make a living writing, Bleacher Report seems the most obvious path the that goal.  And every post I do here is one less post I do there. 

But I can only write about sports there.  I can't do a column where I answer made-up silly questions.  I can't blog political debates or provide a running diary of my holidays or conversations with customer service specialists there.  I need to do these things. 

This is where you come in.  I'll keep doing this as long as this site continues to make progress in catching up to my other one.  I try to post something new by Tuesday or every week, but occasionally I can't get around to it until Wednesday.  Soon, hopefully, it will be more often.  But I need you here.  All 400 of you.  And 400 of your friends. 

I know you probably don't have 400 friends, but perhaps you have two. Refer them both here, because the other people who find this blog entertaining probably don't have any friends at all.

The more people who read, the sooner I can do this full time and consistently post new stuff more than once a week. 

And then we'll all be happy.