Remember? Right freakin’ here!
Seriously. Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind—and then I remember to pop a Klonopin, and all is just groovy with the world again.
It’s one of the benefits of living in a civilized society. And not in, say, some Arkansas trailer park.
Was it my “cock-caulk” story that killed it? Too romantic?
Seems like there’d be just as many if not more reality massagers to pop in an Arkansas trailer park…
Or the mere mention of Something Awful?
So would taking a Klonopin would help me find my keys should I lose them?
End of March, kids. Circle your calendars.
I forget why I’m supposed to circle my calendar.
I remember that post. Can’t say i miss it though.
Alright, alright… I miss is terribly. Are you happy now!
You sure you saw a post there? You might just be snowblind and think you saw a post there.
What does a Texas Tornado and an Arkansas Divorce have in common?
Somebody’s fenda lose a trailer house.
Are you quitting us at the end of March Jeff?
I got a box of Oliver Stone films for $30. I watched “Nixon” and “JFK” and I thought they were both fantastic films. “Nixon”, because despite the fantasy elements really got the man’s nature, I think. “JFK”, because, while factually almost complete BS, was a note perfect evocation of 1960’s paranoia through grief. On the other hand, I didn’t really like “Platoon.”
My contract with PJM expires—making the rightwing of the blogosphere that much more streamlined.
Hmmm. Can’t renew?
“No one but a blockhead …. “ you know the quote
How much to run the site, per month?
Then you would only blog when you felt like it.
Is there a significance to all of that (for those of us ignorant and clueless short timers?)
I think what it means is that he had a contract with Pajamasmedia TM to blog x amount while in his pajamas, but that the contract is running out, and therefore:
A. He can still blog, but not in his pajamas
B. He can still blog in his pajamas, but won’t get paid for it, or have free hosting, or whatever it is the contract provides, and therefore
C. He will either curtail blogging, stop blogging, or lose the domain, to be snapped up by Amanda who will use it to point out that blow jobs are good for you, and therefore
D. The right wing presence in the blogosphere will be curtailed.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
BTW, I have total sympathy for Jeff whatever it is he has to do. Job One is the child, and providing for it.
It means the traffic I lost while I was off fighting legal battles has necessitated I take a rather significant pay cut.
But don’t worry, those funds will be channeled to IP, Malkin, Ace, and those more deserving.
And the rightwing noise machine will bellow on!
Me? I’m not so sure I will.
Correct me if I’m wrong (which I’m not) but you did blog BEFORE PMJ.
And, I say this in all honesty, if PW disappeared, I would simply read more books. I read only a few blogs, and wouldn’t find a replacement site. Many ex-readers, dare I say a frightful number, may turn to (more) porn.
That makes me sad.
At one point in my life I used to write for hire. I freaking hated it. It’s hard to get worked up about something 3 times a week.
Stale.
I pity people who have to write something every day. Columnists and bloggers have a tough time, existentially, anyway. Unless they don’t take it serious. Which begs the question ….
PMJ=Pamamas Jedia? Pamajas Jedia?
Yeah, it makes me sad, too, since I was just getting into it. Also I like the way the site looks. Also beyond the noise there’s some pretty intelligent people here.
I will probably spend more time reading Andrew Sullivan and The Corner. But, aside from the occasional email they publish, they don’t go for conversations …..
I think it stands for Pelvic Mandibular Joint disease.
Papas & Mamas Jedi?
Like, Obese Wan Casselliot or whatever ….
It means the traffic I lost while I was off fighting legal battles has necessitated I take a rather significant pay cut.
But think of all the cattle you can raise on a five-acre spread!
More Goldstein = More traffic = More crazy blog money.
It makes a hell of a lot more sense than that “Kill a jihadi, three pop up in his place” nonsense.
I don’t believe you Jeff. After all, not just anybody can summarize the news.
Post Menopausal Jihad
Possible Monkey Jerking
Policy-Manipulating JOOOS!
Pre Marital Jumping-of-the-Bones
PJM.
Jesus.
Aha! Post Jesus Melancholy.
That explains it.
Best of luck to you in your future endeavors, Jeff. You will be sorely missed.
More Goldstein absolutely means more traffic. Less not-Goldstein also means more traffic, particularly when the not-Goldstein pushes the Goldstein off the front page.
No. NO! Say it ain’t so.
If PW closes, where will I hold forth? I’ll have to get a blog of my own!
[…]
Well, er, I’ll have to post on my own blog!
You can’t put me in a spot like that, Jeff! It ain’t human!
Ok, I keep reading about this “Rightwing Noise Machine.” Is this anything like “Miami Sound Machine”?
‘Cause I gotta tell you, their music sucked. You get that “Come on everybody, do the conga, know you can’t control yourself any longa, feel the rhythm of the music getting stronga” song in your head, your day is shot.
McGehhee – I suppose we’ll have to form some sort of support group.
Alphie Anonymous?
Don’t go Jeff, please don’t go. I might just have to turn this computer off…..Maybe not, but it sure be quiet without you…..Oh by the way, how is that screenplay thing working out for you?
Protein Pals?
Wards of Wisdom?
Paste Dependants?
Grappling Genetalia Group?
Call me…
I like the Paste idea … let’s run with it.
“Fucking Paste Eaters” perhaps? Reminiscent of good times… good times.
those funds will be channeled to IP, Malkin, Ace, and those more deserving.
Well that’s not good news at all. Not that those aren’t good blogs, but none of them can really fill the void left by a Goldstein-free PW. Would it make any difference if your readers passed a non-binding resolution condemning your strategy to redeploy from the blogosphere?
Paste-Eaters Anonymous? (Mm-mmph! Mmmph!))
Goldstein’s Guerrillas (need berets)
or
GAY PORN FLOCK OF LIES!
I like “Protein Pals”, but it sounds too much like a Saturday-morning cartoon show. And you KNOW how I feel about those – especially the preachy, propaganda-laden ones. So, y’know, faggedaboudit…
And its associated Atkins-approved breakfast cereal.
If you go Jeff. The jihadis will have won.
Plus, all the plants will die.
Gobsmacking Goldstein Goblins
Just to keep the good memories alive…
Change *SUCKS* – next thing you know you have these good things that just sort of gradually suddenly become things that used to be good or good things that used to be or whatever as the memories just get dimmer
Your co-bloggers are good, but let me be honest with you: I come here for the unadulterated product. I was snorting up the Martha Stewart Prison Diaries like the purest Bolivian, my friend.
Like most people, I think I’m normal. To me, more Goldstein = more reasons to open the webpage. If everyone thinks like that, the right answer is, “blog more.” That’ll bring your page hits right back up. It’s not like there’s not material galore these days – I mean, for Chrissake, you’ve barely TOUCHED the gigantic stuffed shirt that goes by the name “Barak Obama.”
Besides, who else other than Jonah Goldberg will provide a good monthly Althouse-torquing to entertain the blogosphere?
Case in point: Britney’s back in rehab. If that’s not raw material, what is?
We’ve finally succeeded in driving Jeff out! Now at last we can welcome our new Muslim Overlords! I offer a humble poem in celebration:
There once was a boy
Alphie was his name
Being rejected by millions of women
Is how he won his fame
He was rejected by so many women
He could not even count them
He’d accost them on the street
But they’d never let him mount them
His teacher Noam Choamsky
Said “its sickening what they do”
But when Alphie tried seduction
T’was rejected by that old bag too
He was rejected by his teachers
Rejected by his sister
Even rejected by a horse
He was rejected by his mother late one night
Though his parents had just divorced
Alphie was rejected by old ladies
And little girls
Notwithstanding his cool, seducing lies
But then one day
Alphie turned gay
And started being rejected by guys
Jeff, are you saying you want to stop blogging, or that you have to, or that you might, or that you’re definitely going to?
Because if it’s contingent on something (such as more traffic), your minions might want to know.
research12
Yeah, thought I’d ask.
I’m pretty sure Jeff has his own server, and that is not cheap, folks. And let’s face it; if you were getting money for something, and then suddendly that money was cut sharply, wouldn’t you be inclined to move on to something else that might generate more income? I know I would.
I’m sorry it comes to this, Mr. Goldstein.
I visit Patterico, Ace, and Hot Air as well, but you leave them all in the dust. There isn’t a person or place on the internet that’ll be able to fill the kind of void you’ll leave should you cease blogging. You’re irreplacable, and I mean that.
Hey, why not try an appeal? Lileks got quite a pile when he passed the hat after his wife lost her job. I think a lot of your readers would pony up.
So just let us know what we can do, is all we’re saying.
This might just be the stupidest question asked ever , but here goes ……how do they calculate site traffic ? ….Do you have to log on ? …are visits only counted if you are logged on ? ….do the blogosphere overlords count HITS ? ….how does this work ?
Shall we all ante up? What’s the opening bid?
Site traffic is usually based on server logs. These logs record each file that is requested at what time and from what IP address. This allows site traffic to be reported in:
1. “Hits” or “Page Views” (generally taken to be the same thing, though this can depend on the architecture of the site) – which may include page views driven by a single visitor who refreshes 100 times as well, as any number who glance at the front page and leave in a few seconds.
2. Unique Visitors. Because the log has an IP address associated with each request, you can approximate “Unique Visitors” by counting the unique IP addresses in a given timeframe. If I access PW from work and then access again at home, I will be counted as TWO unique visitors.
Registration is probably not an issue in reporting site stats here at PW. With the right software, registration can be combined with cookie data to, for example, give you an idea of what parts of a site (or particular posts) are of relative interests to different demographics.
I would imagine the PJM overlords get most excited by the Unique Visitor number, since that is most likely the most relevant traffic data in their pitches to advertisers… (as opposed to demographic data)
What can be done to help you out? Because you are one of the places I visit daily.
I don’t like seeing you “punished” for the actions of a left wing nutjob.
Legal troubles ? I’m confused. Did I miss a post somewhere and if so, would somebody link it.
Gracias.
Jeff,
I can understand you walking away from site management. But, keep your readers informed if you set up shop at someone else’s place. You’re too unique to keep it all to yourself.
I don’t consider myself worthy of much contribution here, but I usually come daily for the insight and entertainment.
Thanks to everyone. It was interesting while it lasted.
Matt,
This can get you started.
https://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php?/weblog/entry/more_from_the_tolerant_left/
Delete the above if you do not want it shared Jeff. I understand names are taboo but am unsure of post history.
DWB
Strongly-worded letter of utter disappointment to Pajamas Media? Just thinkin’ out loud here. . .
Dunno what PJM paid, but wouldn’t BlogAds be alternative?
How about Cock-slappers anonymous?
Oops. Think I just pissed off one of the PJM bigwigs.
Looks like my days are numbered.
Better pissed off than pissed on, I always say.
Oops. Think I just pissed off one of the PJM bigwigs.
Well, then you’d better get telling us minions what we need to be doing for you!!!
Oy gevalt, man! Do we have to spell it out?
When the Man is holdin’ you down, Meg Q, it’s time to speak Truth to Power.
TW=”like73.” HAH! Yeah, baby.
Coincidentally, I’ve actually lived in an Arkansas trailer park, and it isn’t so bad. You could probably get your Klonopin cheaper there.
I always assumed from Day 1 that I wouldn’t be renewed.
Never even understood why they signed me in the first place.
*shrug* add a sidebar, get free money.
well, guess I won’t bother with my Laurence Simon comment. ;D something along the lines of…. well, if HE’s still around I doubt you have anything to worry about, Jeff.
Listen. PJM is running a business, so it’s not like I begrudge them their position. They are trying to make the contracts fair based on traffic.
And from what I understand, pay will move up as traffic moves up.
I just find it unfortunate that the time I had to take off affected my traffic, and so affected my contract.
Similarly, I think basing everything on traffic is rather shortsighted. After all, Google search hits can cause a lot of phantom traffic.
Which means too get my traffic up, all I have to do is start posting about Brittany Spears or Beyonce.
But that’s not what this site is about. So, like I’ve always said, pw is destined to remain a cult site.
The question is, it is worth it to me to keep it alive.
I greatly appreciate my readership. I really do. At the same time, though, I’m a lightning rod for leftwing attacks.
And paying out of pocket to be attacked makes me feel more and more like a masochist.
So I’ve got some serious soul-searching to do.
But make no mistake—I don’t blame Pajamas Media. They’re running a business. And where the bottom line is involved, a sense of loyalty is often the first thing sacrificed.
You give them too much credit saying “leftwing attacks.” They’re feces-flinging monkeys and nothing more. It’s all “paste-eater” and “Count Cockula.” That’s the best they’ve got. Fuck ‘em.
Check your email, OK?
/Turing sez the feces-flinging monkeys are all15. I’d have guessed they’re all 12.
You could come guest-blog on Yippee-Ki-Yay. The only leftwing loonies that ever show up there, I think, follow me home from here.
So, like I’ve always said, pw is destined to remain a cult site.
So, like, I’m a member of a cult?
Cool.
Is someone going to have to rescue me, and get me “reprogramed”?
And THEN will I find those high traffic sites interesting?
Well, if you need some grade-A stuff to increase traffic, just let me know. I can give it to you in jpeg or gif formats.
And if you need to, you know, have those pageviews open for awhile, I got bitmaps, too.
Hang in there.
Enron was a ‘business’, too.
It’s just business, Goldstien. It’s not personal.
Now get the hell outta here, ya mook.
I realize that. And I don’t want to sound like I’m fishing for compliments here. After all, I left for 18 months once before, so it ain’t like there’s no precedent for this.
This stuff gets to be draining, if you let it. And sometimes I begin questioning whether or not the daily grind is worth it.
It’s unfortunate that this info has transcended the bounds of the comment thread, where it was addressed to site regulars as a way to prepare them if I decide to sell the domain or just put the site on hiatus. Lots of people have their own pet theories about what is going on—karma for wanting to beat somebody in the face with my doink is my favorite thus far—but this is, when all is said and done, a decision I have to make, based on what I think is best for me and my family.
Few people know that a certain saga is ongoing and taking up a lot of my time and energy. And besides, my son is now 3, and this will be our first spring / summer in our new home, so I’m going to want to spend a lot of time outside with him.
If I can work something out with PJM—or if Blogads proves to be any kind of workable alternative—I’ll have more reason to stick around. But my experience with Blogads was that I wasn’t reliably conservative enough for conservative advertisers—even though progressives tend to view me as Charlotte Rampling in Nazi regalia.
Just the nature of the kind of site I run.
Let’s just wait and see what happens, is all I’ve got to say for now.
Jeff, PW is definitely one of the best blogs I’ve ever lurked in. The guest bloggers were, as a whole, adequite, but still no substitute for the real deal. Like most of the previous commentors above, I would be sad to see PW disappear. However, I can certainly understand the desire for a change of pace, especially when the current pace is tough and unpaid. Oh well, keep up the good work and I’ll enjoy it while I can.
tw-children99 (keep blogging for the children)
I’m very sorry to hear this.
Best of luck in whatever you choose to do.
:(
TW: values63
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose.