Save MarksFriggin.com

January 2, 2011.

As everyone knows the economy has been in the shitter for the past few years. Things are tough all over. I've definitely seen how bad it is in the past 2 years. Many of you know that I haven't had a 'real' job since 2003. Since then I've been relying on advertising money and various side jobs to make money. The advertising money has all but dried up. A few big sponsors of mine have had to pull out for financial reasons. This is making it very tough to make money with the site. A few weeks back I broke down about what I make per hour working on the site. It turned out to be under $4 an hour.

About a month ago I posted something on my Facebook account about how I may have to stop doing this. I don't want to stop but I do need to start making some money to pay bills. My wife has been super supportive ever since I started this web site in 1995. She's been there from the beginning but I can't expect her to support my hobby financially.

I didn't start this site to 'make money.' I've always done this for the love of the show and to share it with the fans. Obviously I wouldn't have kept doing this for under $4 an hour if I didn't do it for the love of the show. I'm not looking to get rich from this, I just want to be able to justify spending 20-25 hours a week working on the site.

I know there are a few of you out there who have asked how you can help. If you'd like to contribute a few bucks then I'll have a link to Amazon Payments which is an easy way to throw a couple of bucks my way right through your Amazon account. I'd like to have a Paypal link on my site but I've tried that in the past and Paypal tells me that the content of the site is against their terms of service. I had to remove the links. (Email me if you would prefer to contribute via Paypal.)

How much am I looking for? Not much. I was thinking that if a couple thousand people contribute a dollar a month then I could justify doing this for another 5 years. In the past when I've asked for help the turnout wasn't all that big so a 'couple thousand' is a big stretch. My guess is that a couple hundred is more like it. Based on my past experiences it may turn out to be more like 20 people. If you use my site and you'd like to see it continue, and you can spare a buck a month, then you can help keep it going. I can even compile a list of names and post them on the site as supporters of MarksFriggin.com.

So here's how you can contribute through Amazon Payments. Go to http://payments.amazon.com/, log into your Amazon.com account, click ''Send Money.'' When you fill out the recipient field, my Alias is ''friggin'' without the quotes. Fill out what you'd like to pay and that's that. Or...

UPDATE: 01/13/2011 - I've upgraded my Amazon payments account so I can use a clickable button to get to the payment page. Here are payment links in varying dollar amounts:

If you don't have an Amazon.com account and you'd like to send something via mail, you can send it here:

Mark Mercer
PO Box 584
Lebanon, NJ 08833

Thanks to everyone who has visited the site and who has tried to help by visiting my sponsors over the past 15 years. I really do appreciate it. I hope to be here another 5 years. This year I'm just going to take it one day at a time.

UPDATE: October 21, 2011
At this point a little over 10 months has passed and contributions have tapered off to just about zero. Today I decided that I'm going to start cutting back on how much time I put into this site. The first cutback I'm making is on Master Tape Theatre shows. I'm no longer going to write up Master Tape Theatre shows that are not in my archives. I will continue to concentrate on live show rundowns but I may start cutting back on covering specials next. At this rate I won't be able to keep the site going much longer.

Mark Mercer

UPDATE: January 17, 2011.

I'm going to list the people who have contributed to the site since this campaign started. Last names have been removed. Very special thanks to everyone who has contributed in any way.

1. Feb 16, 2012 Stephen M.
2. Feb 15, 2012 David A.
3. Feb 9, 2012 Rexican.com
4. Feb 6, 2012 Jerry S.
5. Feb 4, 2012 CAR
6. Feb 3, 2012 Owen G.
7. Feb 2, 2012 Shahab H.
8. Jan 31, 2012 Trixx V.
9. Jan 31, 2012 Jean P.
10. Jan 30, 2012 BENANTI.COM
11. Jan 30, 2012 Bruce K.
12. Jan 24, 2012 Philip H.
13. Jan 23, 2012 Tee C.
14. Jan 20, 2012 Janet B.
15. Jan 16, 2012 Stephen S.
16. Jan 11, 2012 Shawn P.
17. Jan 10, 2012 Jim S.
18. Jan 10, 2012 Steve K.
19. Jan 4, 2012 Ted F.
20. Jan 3, 2012 Albert S.
21. Dec 31, 2011 Scott S.
22. Dec 31, 2011 David R.
23. Dec 31, 2011 Lewis H.
24. Dec 29, 2011 Chris V.
25. Dec 29, 2011 Jason J.
26. Dec 28, 2011 Jasper S.
27. Dec 28, 2011 Bill S.
28. Dec 28, 2011 Barbara Y.
29. Dec 26, 2011 Theodore K.
30. Dec 26, 2011 Josh S.
31. Dec 24, 2011 Sean G.
32. Dec 24, 2011 Todd G.
33. Dec 23, 2011 P.K.
34. Dec 22, 2011 Boris T.
35. Dec 20, 2011 Kevin S.
36. Dec 16, 2011 Odette Y.
37. Dec 13, 2011 John S.
38. Dec 13, 2011 Kathy M.
39. Dec 11, 2011 Corey C.
40. Dec 9, 2011 Michael W.
41. Dec 8, 2011 Jeff M.
42. Dec 7, 2011 Bobby A.
43. Dec 6, 2011 Julie A.
44. Dec 6, 2011 Shimon H.
45. Dec 5, 2011 Craig N.
46. Dec 4, 2011 Ronald L.
47. Dec 3, 2011 Lawrence M.
48. Dec 3, 2011 Rebecca C.
49. Dec 2, 2011 Paula C.
50. Dec 1, 2011 John L.
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52. Nov 29, 2011 Julie R.
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54. Nov 28, 2011 Daniel W.
55. Nov 28, 2011 Albert L.
56. Nov 27, 2011 Jeff P.
57. Nov 27, 2011 Bradley B.
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59. Nov 25, 2011 Christy S.
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61. Nov 23, 2011 Jeff G.
62. Nov 23, 2011 Troy D.
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64. Nov 21, 2011 Andrea O.
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67. Nov 21, 2011 Steve K.
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71. Nov 12, 2011 Christopher M.
72. Nov 11, 2011 Christine W.
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74. Nov 10, 2011 John S.
75. Nov 8, 2011 Joe M.
76. Nov 8, 2011 Yigael C.
77. Nov 7, 2011 Elaine R.
78. Nov 7, 2011 Shahab H.
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111. Oct 14, 2011 Sean O.
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114. Sep 26, 2011 Anonymous.
115. Sep 24, 2011 Robert H.
116. Sep 23, 2011 Diane C.
117. Sep 22, 2011 Michael W.
118. Sep 12, 2011 Francisco R.
119. Sep 7, 2011 Laurie G.
120. Sep 6, 2011 Richard G.
121. Sep 6, 2011 Julie R.
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124. Aug 19, 2011 Allan G.
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167. May 9, 2011 Keith S.
168. May 6, 2011 Jonathan F.
169. May 5, 2011 Michael D.
170. May 4, 2011 Stan S.
171. May 4, 2011 Karen
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179. Apr 25, 2011 Keith D.
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238. Feb 4, 2011 Thomas H.
239. Feb 4, 2011 Mark P.
240. Feb 3, 2011 Joe N.
241. Feb 2, 2011 Gary P.
242. Feb 2, 2011 Mark L.
243. Feb 1, 2011 Kevin M.
244. Feb 1, 2011 Matt
245. Jan 31, 2011 Alan R.
246. Jan 31, 2011 Cheyenne T.
247. Jan 27, 2011 David E
248. Jan 27, 2011 Mark B.
249. Jan 26, 2011 Owen S.
250. Jan 26, 2011 Rick C.
251. Jan 26, 2011 Doug C.
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253. Jan 25, 2011 Kevin M.
254. Jan 25, 2011 Justin H.
255. Jan 24, 2011 Gregg E.
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