If you read Cheers and Jeers and you enjoy good snark, our Lighthouse of Snark's term as a paid blogger is soon expiring.
We did something quite incredible two years ago, as a community, we came together to pay Bill to write Cheers and Jeers..the first time a group of readers paid a blogger to write!
Why? Because Bill is a great writer and the Cheers and Jeers Community is a great place to either visit as a lurker or hunker down and become part of a larger community on this site.
Portland Head Light by Predictor
I joined DK on Oct 6, 2006 and my entree into the larger Community was via Community Diary series such as "WYFP?", Got a Happy Story" and shortly thereafter "Cheers and Jeers". In the process I've been to many San Francisco Kossack meetups and one New England Kossack meetup where I got to meet Bill and his Partner Michael in the flesh (oo la la)..I jest but.. I'm not Shirley..In any case, I have met many wonderful friends which I truly treasure.
Bill, as it turns out is a lover of Lighthouses, as am I, Lighthouses always seemed incredible to me, a point of reference upon vast Oceans or other Waterways that provided a sense of direction and the potential for a safe harbour, much as Bill provides in Cheers and Jeers...
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to pilots at sea.
Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals and reefs, and safe entries to harbors and can also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and replacement by modern electronic navigational aids.
Lighthouse keepers were needed to trim the wicks..
Wikipedia
I can only think of the World of Politics much the same as described in the second paragraph, with Bill as the Lighthouse Keeper and this Website as the "modern electronic navigational aid". Rumour has it that Bill is a pro at trimming a wick too, but I digress...
So, for every Recommend that this Diary gets, plus for every Recommend on the Tip Jar, in the first three (3) Hours the Diary is up, me and my Spouse, joustchr (Christian) will contribute $1.00 to the cause.
If you're unable to come up with Lighthouse photos please feel free to post any photos unrelated to the subject, whether it be Pooties or Wozzles or Friends you have met through this site or Flora and Fauna for that matter, I lovz my Photoblogging. A Picture truly can be worth a thousand words. Thank you for your support.
One time contribution: click here.
$5 monthly contribution: click here
$10 monthly contribution: click here
$20 monthly contribution: click here
Or you can mail him a check or money order via snail mail to:Bill Harnsberger, 16 Pitt Street, Portland, ME, 04103.
Predictor at St. Irénée Quay Light, Québec by joustchr