  See what happens when I don't drink beer, here it is almost 5AM and I am still awake. Someone send help in the form of tranquilizers, red and blue seconals, lipstick-red tubenals, or some fucking valerian root damn it! I actually don't mind the mild bouts of insomnia I get every once in a while, it affords me plenty of time to get things done like reading and researching stuff. The only problem is, once I finally do get to sleep I'll do so for far to long. I'm a 'get-up-early-and-make-the-most-of-a-day' kind of person for the most part (there have been exceptions so no need pointing that out K8), so it fucks me up when I wake up late.
For most of you the following is going to be incredibly dull, be forewarned. I've been reading about urlLink Nick Denton , President of urlLink Gawker and all of its related blogs. There is a great article in Wired about Denton and his urlLink contributions to the business of blogs and nanopublishing ( NOTE: the actual print article is much more thorough ), as well as some of his competition, i.e. urlLink Weblogs Inc. This has all further increased my desire to get more into the blogosphere and perhaps one day join the ranks of the blogging elite such as urlLink Glenn Reynolds , urlLink Wil Wheaton , urlLink Evan Williams , urlLink Jason Kottke , and urlLink Dave Winer . For some reason this type of Internet/literary celebrity intrigues me, and considering I abhor all other type of celebrity that is a little bit scary. Gawker is currently on the search for six more elite bloggers to add sites to their repertoire on subjects ranging from dating to video games. Now of course I am no where near being able to be considered for either of those postions, one of my new goals is to get to that point however.
To get paid to sit at home and blog, what they fuck could be better than that? Currently Gawker is the publisher of several sites including urlLink Gawker itself which is basically a blog of NYC gossip and who's who type of stuff. urlLink Fleshbot is dedicated to porn, but as an industry and not as just, well porn. The techno-gadget site urlLink Gizmodo is one of my favorites and focuses on up-and-coming technology and of course, gadgets. urlLink Defamer is basically the west-coast version of Gawker, giving you all the latest in Hollywood news and what have you.
To round it all off we have the politically-left site urlLink Wonkette which gives all the latest on the happenings on Capitol Hill and abroad. The thing that is different about these sites is that they aren't written by professional writers or journalists, but just by bloggers who happened to have certain wit and literary savant-like ability. They all bring such a refreshing angle to their subject matter that it almost doens't matter if you are into it or not, it's still intersting to read.
So that's that. Who knows, perhaps one day I'll be getting paid for sitting here on my ass staring at an LCD screen and slowly going blind. I'm sure I'll never see my name in lights, but I'd sure like to see it in urlLink hypertext next to a bunch of ads that I'm making money from. Don't worry, I will. 
