Help Heather Dale Talk With YouTube

Here's the core of the problem:

In an effort to add data for Heather & Ben, here's what I know about my YouTube account money.

I have three monetized videos on YouTube -- the "Talk Like A Pirate Day" one with lyrics and guitar chords, the one from CapriCon 2008 with me and the Pirate Guys, and the one of Judi and me at MarCon 2008 doing "I Had A Shoggoth".

According to my Analytics page, my earnings so far total $1.38. From YouTube specifically: six cents.

I don't even know how I would go about collecting that $1.38. Or six cents.

Oh, wait -- there are two pages: the estimated earnings is different from the ad revenue. No idea why. But there, I've got $2.58. Or $18.83. Or somethin'.

I'm sure I can figure out the advertising revenue page, and I'm sure there's a guide to it. But I'll say this: Right now, I got nothin'. Literally nothin'. No idea where to get what money I supposedly have, nor why I supposedly have the amount I supposedly have.

For about a year after I put that freakin' video up, YouTube pestered me about monetizing it. When I finally did so, the process was reasonably simple. And I don't know why they would be giving Heather such grief about her music.

Anyone else have data points for Heather & Ben?

Sick Fuck Limbaugh Ruins My Day Further

I haven't been having the best day.

• First, of course, came the NRA's repugnant ad (and their remarkable bullshit response to everyone's disgust).
• I'm waiting for a callback from a U-M clinic (no big, about a procedure I'll have next month).
• I'm trying to wrestle with writing some, y'know, music.
• A woman who was my housemate back in the late 80s passed away, and we were never close and I hadn't seen her in years but now I'm the only survivor of that household.
• And then goddamn Rush has to open his yap:

  You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.

HOW CAN SOMEONE EVEN THINK LIKE THAT?

How can someone say shit like that? Is this truly the normal level of discourse?

I know, I know: It's Rush, it's talk radio, it's the right wing, blah blah blah. I shouldn't let myself get crazy over it. But, dammit, I spent a lot of time and energy trying to become a halfway decent human being, and I think I made it, and I try to maintain it and not be an asshole, and then this unconscionable motherfucker continues to get fucking stupid wealthy by saying things that simply should not even be thought of -- not because they're heretical, or challenging, or out of step with some mythical mainstream, but because they're unfathomably vile.

It sickens me to call him part of my tribe. But he is. Perhaps I'm not part of his, but he's still a human being, and I will not descend to his depths and dehumanize him.

But GOD this day is for shit.