UPDATED: A reminder – or just info for those not familiar with the site

One of the comments on the original post said:

Is there any way to contribute/donate to what you do other than by the subscription version of the Funhouse? I am essentially just an Other Crap viewer, which is all that I have the time for, but am very grateful for what you do.

My response:

Not really. Over the years I have considered monetizing Other Crap, but the site is like my child and I don’t want to fuck it up. I am proud of the fact that it’s all content. All of the people who contribute to the site – Charlie, Johnny Moronic, Aesthete and others – do so just for the love of the game.

I get offers every day from people who would like to pay to place articles on Other Crap. I’ve seen that some of my fellow celeb-oriented blogs do that, but I have two problems with it: (1) Articles have a short lifespan on the front page, and don’t get much traffic when they mosey on to page two. Therefore, I could not make it worthwhile for the paid articles unless I nailed them to the front page, which I would find disruptive of the flow; (2) Those articles don’t interest me, so I assume they would not interest you.

Contributions? I just don’t like internet begging. I know that important sites like Wikipedia ask for contributions, so it’s an accepted practice, but I just don’t like it.

I would run ads if the products benefited both me and my readers, and I may do that some day, but the right product hasn’t come along yet. Perhaps in the future you may see ads for generic Viagra or some other male-oriented product, but only if the offer is superlative.

If you just want to help defer the cost of the site, the best way to do it is to sign up for one month of the Fun House and cancel immediately to prevent rebilling. When you cancel, the site continues to work until the end of the 30 days you paid for. So you spend only twenty bucks, and that gives you a month to go through all the pics, videos and back issues, viewing and/or downloading everything you want, with no worry about rebilling. That way you aren’t just contributing, but getting an unreal value for twenty bucks. If I were you I wouldn’t do that in summer. Enjoy your lives and your families. Get exercise. Enjoy the summer. Then sign up for a month when the weather traps you inside and you need some entertainment.

Somebody in the comments reminded me that you can also buy a copy of my book. Fair warning: it’s not horny and there’s nothing about celebrities. It traces how I my life got fucked-up by one disastrous year in my childhood. It’s kind of funny, but it’s also kind of serious and sometimes sad, sort of like Nabokov, except without the talent.

Of course, Other Crap is basically what I do to entertain myself and you, so the best contribution you can make is to visit often, enjoy the site, and tell me when you like the posts. If you know others who would like the site, tell them about it. If you can direct traffic to Other Crap somehow, do so. Otherwise, just have a good time.

That is all.

Anyway – now back to our regular programming …

The free version of the Funhouse contains additional material every day that does not appear in Other Crap.

Uncle Scoopy’s Ballpark includes in-depth baseball articles, focusing on some of baseball’s untold or rarely told stories.

Uncle Scoopy’s Movie House contains film reviews, and nudity reviews for those films.

Les Actrices Françaises Nues à l’Ecran is the bible of French film and TV nudity

All of those sites are free, and ad-free.

The subscription version of the Funhouse contains pretty much every word that I’ve written since the 1990s, including every video and every picture.