AS OF TODAY, we’ve replaced some of the banner ads on this site with text ads serviced thru Google.

The previous ad supplier paid very little, offered few ads for things our readers would want to buy, had a lot of quesitonable ad content (pop overs, pop unders, strobe animations), and represented some questionable ad categories (Net casinos, mass-email address harvesters, military recruiters). The revenue I received for all this was less than the minimum-wage equivalent of the time I spent once or twice a month deleting ads I didn’t want on this site.

Google ads operate on a keyword system, based on topics found on the site. Since this site discusses so many different topics, it might be be fun to see what ads show up in the ad box over the next few weeks.

I’m going to take that as a challenge to discuss as many different things here as I can. Expect to read fervent, lucid discussions concerning the following and more:

• How the new Everett hockey team may fare this season against the perennial Western Hockey League powerhouses (including Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, and my favorite, the Brandon Wheat Kings).
• Those new fangled cell phone vibrators, and all the potential puns to be generated therefrom.
• The coming closure of the Seattle Independent Media Center’s downtown storefront after four years, and whether an organization dedicated to opposing big business needed to have been situated in a building with big-business rents.
• Why Duck Dodgers is the best animated show of the year and the best revival of a classic Warner character since ’64.
• Proper ways to celebrate Friday’s seventieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. (Perhaps the Lushy gig at the Intl. District’s new Vesper Lounge).
• How many licks really are needed to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.