A ton of you---well OK, twelve---have asked if I intend to join the über blog that Simon and Reynolds have cooked up to make money.

Words to live by: never do anything just to make money; and you listens to their music and you dance to their tune----or else the band leaves.

I wouldn't be caught dead in that bullshit enterprise where each of the idiots provide links to the others. This is called "hit building" in the trade. Every time you read a blog with a ton of links in every piece you know the clown is engaging in "hit building." The reason I started blogging is that this is the only place in the known world where you have the absolute freedom to say anything; a "fuck you just in case" point of view. Advertisers want to control output---he who has the gold makes the rules---and you can bet that the old time Liberal Simon will see to it that there are no "fucks, shits, motherfuckers" or any other so-called banned speech--think he will tolerate pro Palestinian POVs? How about Hamas? Taking money is always the first step to selling out. Only duToit had the guts---or lack of brains---to tell an advertiser to go fuck himself, literally. And don't ever forget that du Toit has more guns than his advertisers do. Now, following the site building theme you might infer that he and I are exchanging links for the pupose of building traffic. Fuck you. And fuck that mass blogging bullshit as well.