Photo credit: Urban Mixer It has been quite a year for me. I have been on TV, worked behind the scenes on a nationally televised commercial, and my blog, Dead Rooster, was featured on CNN. And, now, yesterday, September 23rd (which happened to be my birthday), I reached a personal goal I set for myself [...]

Photo credit: riptheskull WEEKEND PLANS ABORTED. The plan was to take a few days off, mix up a pitcher of margaritas, relax on the back porch and finish reading Cluck: Murder Most Fowl. The trouble was that the temperature here in the beautiful wine country of southern California shot up to over eight-million-degrees–or, in the [...]

Photo credit: Dario There comes a time in every young bloggers life when pure, wholesome thoughts eventually turn to blog traffic. When this happens, the traffic libido becomes engorged, sometimes ballooning to the size of a transport helicopter, which causes the newbie blogger to send emails to well-known experts—people that know how to get blog [...]