If you’re one of those people who sees Dan out in public and offers to make a gesture of thanks for the years of live music or a confession that you once sneaked into a show without paying (or you just enjoy what you read here) don’t buy Dan a drink. Tip him instead.
He will happily put the few bucks that you might spend on an adult beverage toward the care and feeding of his four-year-old son. If you’re moved to hit the donate button with the amount of your choosing (via PayPal), please do so.
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Shameless. Utterly Shameless.
how are you not humiliated by this? Your poor kid.
Blogs having a tip jar is a routine practice. Not as common as sniping at people (and their children, apparently) from the safety of anonymity, but common.
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I feel I need to clarify something for the record here. I built this site, I edit and publish Dan’s posts and I came up with this idea as a play on the usual “Buy the author a beer” overtures that are on so many blogs. The stories here are provided free of charge. No one is getting paid for the time spent to put them here. When we have enough traffic to warrant it, we may sell advertising more aggressively.
Meanwhile, this is simply the equivalent of keeping an open fishbowl on top of the piano. If you find that tacky, that’s your prerogative. Personally, I like buskers.
P.S. People do offer to buy Dan a drink pretty much any time he goes out, which, these days, is not very often.
I’m with you, Tracy. Although not floating much in the blogosphere and hadn’t heard about it before, I think it’s a perfectly fine practice. If you read the blogs but don’t want to tip, how easy is it not to tip?
I like your style Tracy. I think it speaks well of yourself and Dan that the blog is well written (and intelligently so), coupled with a mature and appropriate sense of humor as indicated by the “tip jar”.
Good grief people, if you take exception, don’t leave a tip.
Perhaps some of the naysayers here might ask themselves WHY Dan doesn’t want you to buy him a drink….when you get past that part maybe you might quit complaining about his tip jar.