Could you grow rich just from running a website?  What about just from having a blog?  What a silly question, of course you can.

I think this whole concept represents the American dream in 2009.  The whole idea that people can live off a website, which isn't even real, just something off in cyberspace, and you can earn a living from that.  Money doesn't grow on trees, but you can pull it out of the internet.  

I love that idea.  When I think of the internet, I think of the Monopoly guy.



But instead of putting houses & hotels on the orange properties, he is making a website, typing away with that same black hat on, all the while looking like a boss.  Laughing because while everyone else is taking Facebook quizzes, he figured out a way to make a living off the internet. 

Let's say war breaks out, but it's kind of far away from where he is.  Close enough that his friends are affected but he is able to stay out of the war zone, thanks to his extra income.  It doesn't matter in the least bit what happens in the real world, it doesn't matter what gets destroyed by the war.  Buildings can topple, whole countries can be destroyed.  But none of this matters to him, because he is too busy making money on the net. 

That is the most American thing I can think of.  Put that Monopoly guy right next to baseball, blues and National Parks. 

To be perfectly honest, if I could be doing anything right now I would be sitting in a national park, right in the middle of a bunch of trees, running websites, using the most powerful Wi-Fi ever.  This would have to be such powerful internet that I can be online while I'm sitting in the midst of a forest. 

I'm talking about a hot environment, so it's more like a rain forest.  Animals wouldn't bother me because, for the most part, animals don't bother people.  Wolves, bears and lions do I suppose, but most animals will leave you the fuck alone if you are in the forest.  Trust me they will.  A bird can't do shit to you.  It can shit on you and that's about it.  Hummingbirds as well, they are obviously harmless, but they're pretty.

The truth is, if I really was building websites in that national park forest, I honestly wouldn't be happy unless I could see hummingbirds.  Even if you offered me a plane ticket or gas money to get to that national park and you provided me with a laptop powerful enough to go online while I was out there, I still would NOT go unless these 2 things were guaranteed: it's warm enough to wear a T-shirt and I can see hummingbirds flying around.