Me and Lenny Bruce

Oh man, oh man, oh man. I gotta tell y'all something. I am too profane for advertisers. That is right, the amount of profanity on my site is the reason why the ads you normally see to your left have been blank for the last couple weeks(please note they are now running, so I guess I am now just profane enough for the Friends of Maddie and Celiac Disease).

I do not deny that I occasionally curse like a drunken sailor. I make no bones about that fact and I knew that this might be an issue for some advertisers, but it has apparently over the last few weeks because any issue with ALL the advertisers. This does not seem fair because currently the f-word, the c-word or any other _-word do not appear on the main page of my blog. Now, I willing admit that the word penis appears twice, along with a picture of a penis flower. I do not consider these to be profane. For one, the word penis is a medical term(serving both a urinary function and a sexual function) and the penis flower just a flower that bares a striking resemblance to a penis.

What is even more curious is the fact that the Penis flower post ran after I had contacted my ad network about their 'dead air'. So it was not the penis flower and it was not my ode to the f-word which ran months ago. Curiouser and Curiouser. Now let me tell you why the normally abiding mom is kind of irked by all this. First of all, I hate to tell the good people at my ad network, but I only agreed to sigh up when they contacted me because I knew it would piss off my enemies and impress my friends(mostly just wanted to piss off the enemies). I never expected to make any money. I really don't have the traffic for it and as expected I have made very, very little money off these ads. I did not miss the money when they were down, I just did not want my blog to look unbalanced. And I just wanted an honest answer as to why the ads were not appearing. It took weeks to get that answer. This is what irks me. I asked a very easy question and the answer considering its simplicity took an especially long time to get back to me.

Now that I have that answer I think it is time to say good-bye to advertising. It was fun. We had a good run, but I really do not want to be censored, not for $2 a month. You can totally censor me for $500 a month, but not for $2. I fulfil my obligations, so until I receive word on how to end this arrangement I will leave the ads in place. I have sent an email asking just that question. Should be getting a response, any, day, now.