You have all been so nice to give me your opinions on Vegas. The guilt is overwhelming. I cannot take it anymore.
A few months ago, a few weeks before the Blogher conference, I got an email from someone at a lighting store. “I’ve been through your site, and I am interested in donating a product for review or to use in a giveaway on mocklog.com.”
“AHAHAHAHAHAHA” I said. Then I lay down sick from laughing and tried to think of what I might have said to want someone to associate this site with lamps. Then I tried to picture what type of lamp would embody this blog. A neon “TMI” lamp? A fragile “Major Award?” One of those doctor / miner headband lights for investigating Great Cooter Cave?
I checked it out. Lots of ceiling lighting. Nice enough. But just about as random as could be. I was baffled. And of course, if I accepted the lamp I could never be seen as a blogger with Integrity. Every post you would be wondering, “Is she just saying that because she’s whoring herself out to the lighting industry?”
So I wrote the nice man back and said I couldn’t accept his offer, because I didn’t think it would fit in with the “dirty little secret tone” of my blog. (I really did say that. I figured it would rope in another reader, anyway. If so, hi Jonathon!) It isn’t as if I have hundreds of readers. Maybe one hundred. (Waves at all one hundred readers individually, just to be fair.)
I immediately felt guilty for depriving y’all of a free lamp. Still I was proud I didn’t sully my typing fingers with the filth of commerce.
Now of course there is a post-Blogher move toward full disclosure when you are offered a chance to review something. I want my readers to rest assured the CSN lighting company is not influencing me in any way. And CSN, I don’t want you to think your offer gets you off the hook. I have INTEGRITY. I reserve the right to mock you, your parent company, or any of your subsidiaries.
9 responses to “Diogenes’ Overhead Lighting”
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash offered you a lamp and you said NO??
ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO WANT BLOGGERS TO REVIEW PRODUCTS!!I am available. I will review any product! Bacon flavored mayo? SURE! What better way to make a sandwhich for my hubba hubba husband than with bacon flavored mayo!Vibrators? Of for the love of GOD! How do I get in on the reviewing vibrators business!! Send one send all! I will write up a review that makes the my audience yelp with laughter and run to buy your product!And lights?? I am about to buy a new house!! I could review all manner of lights and overhead lamps and halogens galore!! Just give me a chance I say!!!:)Mrs. Holly Hall, nurse, wife, mother of two and excellent reviewer at your service.
I could be tempted to start blogging for free stuff. But I admire you for turning it down.
Are you crazy? We’re in the dark here!
I’m disappointed in you. I mean it’s great that you didn’t sully your reputation by pushing free stuff. But you really couldn’t think of some way to make giving away a lighting product a little dirty? Wow, you should go sit in a dark corner and think about tha…. Wait, not with the rabbit!
You are on a real roll with your titles lately. Good stuff!
Becs – Hilarious! Good to start the day with a belly laugh.Mrs Hall – I suggest you put that on your blog and send a copy to Jonathon at CSNLighting.comCaroline – Thank you! You have principles.Candy – Ahhhh, back with the guilt. I’m sorry! I have some lamps in my basement.Amy in StL – Oh well, since gary got such a fine shot of my diseased crotch I am thinking of some type of well -lit periscope device. Squatting over a mirror gives you the shadow, your know.Big Dot – I hit Wikipedia first, just to see how to spell and punctuate it.
Get them to send you this light:
http://www.csnlighting.com/Robert-Abbey-S1306-rab2166.html
It is FUCKING AWESOME. Pardon my french.
Styro – noooooo! Did you see those bulbs? A bulb blows out and how do you replace a half-silver plated bulb?