A year ago today, I wrote this uninteresting post and Living with Balls was born. 198 posts later, it’s still alive and kicking.

A lot has changed since that first post. My initial plan when starting this blog was for it to be more of a men’s magazine. I’d write the occasional funny piece but I’d also write reviews, give advice and write sports analysis.

Then it occurred to me that I really don’t like writing about anything serious. Also, my “funny” posts were doing way better than the posts where I gave out shitty advice or wrote a boring review—and with a name like Living with Balls, how could anyone take anything I wrote seriously? So I gradually transformed it to a humor blog for men and that’s where it stands today.

I’ll admit it. My main motivation a year ago was to make a little side cash off this site. It occurred to me pretty quickly, however, that making money off a blog would not be so easy. I’ve realized that making some real coin from this blog may never happen. I’m ok with that because I also didn’t know how much I’d enjoy it. So I’ll continue to write and if I make some money off this site, then great! If not, I’ll still continue to work hard at making it better each day. (more…)

Living with Balls will be taking a short hiatus. I will be unable to post new content for the next two weeks. Don’t worry. I will return with plenty of fresh, knee-slapping content later this month.

In the meantime, if you need your LWB fix, I suggest going through the archives (which can be found on the right-hand side) and reading some of my older posts. Some of my best stuff was written very early when only my wife was reading this blog.

If you’re too lazy to do that, then check out the Best of LWB Section, which features the most popular posts from the past year.

OK. So I’m not really changing it. I’m just going to add to it.  From now on, instead of being known as John S., I will be referred to as Johnny Sacks.  There are a few reasons for this…

First off, one of my regrets when starting this blog was not coming up with a cool alias.  So I figured it’s better late than never.

Also, I think having a full name may be good for the branding of this blog. Should this blog ever become really popular, (which is unlikely) I think it will be good to have a full name associated with it.  Plus Sacks seems like an appropriate name for a blog about balls.

Back in February, I wrote a post showing some of the crazy searches that brought readers to Living with Balls. It turned out to be pretty entertaining so I thought I’d do it again—mainly because I haven’t had the time to write a real post.

Since February, I have gained a little more authority in Google searches and thus have found some results that are even crazier than last time.

As a reminder, these are 100% REAL. I have only altered spelling errors. This time around, I’ll be borrowing an idea from my friend Bejewell at The Bean and I will put them into categories. (more…)

The future financial success of this blog was dealt a significant blow recently when I received this e-mail from the people at Google AdSense:

“Thanks for your email. However, please be aware that because your site was found to be in violation of our program policies, it is no longer eligible for participation in the AdSense program. Should you choose to remove all of the adult content then you may submit the site for review by visiting: https://google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact=noncompliance .

Your account remains active, and you are welcome to place Google ads on other sites which comply with AdSense policies.”

I think it’s debatable if my site truly has “adult content” on it.  Sure I talk about porn and dirty words found in Urban Dictionary but it’s no worse than anything you’d see on FOX in primetime.

As noted above, Google says I can have my account activated if I remove all the adult content.  THAT’S NOT HAPPENING.  I will continue to give the people what they want.  I will continue to talk about tits and farts and people I want to punch in the face.  I’ll continue to write sexist columns and bitch about my fiancé even if it means sacrificing the two dollars a month I currently bring in with Google AdSense.

Although losing the ability to place Google ads hurts the chance of my blog becoming profitable in the future, I am not too worried about it.  There are plenty of other ways to make money online. Contrary to popular belief, Google does not control everything.

There are plenty of other advertisers out there. Do you know any? Because I could really use some cash.

I recently wrote a guest post over at Regretful Morning titled Seven of the Luckiest Men in America. Here’s a teaser…

Some guys have all the luck. While most men bust their ass to get ahead in life, some men have been fortunate enough to achieve the dreams of many, while doing very little. This can be anything from becoming famous, to earning lots of money, or to sleeping with a woman that is way out of their league.

Now this list doesn’t include people who have truly earned “the good life.” You won’t see guys like Tom Brady or Justin Timberlake because they have talent and have worked hard to achieve fame, fortune and an endless amount of pussy. These are simply men who have no business being in the position they are. These are some of the luckiest men in America. Read the rest of my guest post here

I write about a wide array of ridiculous topics here at Living with Balls. This has resulted in a number of people finding my blog through some rather odd Google searches.

Through the magic of Google Analytics, I am able to view every possible Google search that brought someone to my page. Some of the searches I’ve discovered are rather entertaining. I thought I’d share them with you. Here are the most notable searches that brought readers to Living with Balls. (more…)

Since I didn’t spend enough money this holiday season, I thought I’d blow another 25 bucks for one lucky reader of Living with Balls.  I’ll be giving away a $25 dollar Amazon gift card for anyone who votes for the best post of 2009.

There are two ways to Enter… (more…)

Tomorrow there will be a new addition to the Living with Balls team. I have been on the lookout, recruiting true men to write for this site. After a rigorous interview process, I have found a worthy contributor. His name is Frank Wheeler and he will be contributing on occasion to this blog.

If you like his stuff, be sure to comment and tell him about it. If you don’t like it, well too bad, read it anyway. Don’t write anything nasty, like this bitch did. So be sure to come back tomorrow and read his first post. (more…)

No it’s not my site, unfortunately. The other day a friend of mine turned me on to a site called Lamebook. To those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a site compiled of posts from people’s Facebook pages that are usually inappropriate, dumb and hilarious.

I went on there for the first time yesterday and I spent a good hour laughing my face off. Sites like this piss me off because I wasn’t the one to think of such an awesome idea…Especially when I wrote a post called Facebook Pet Peeves, which outlined a number of the issues that appear on Lamebook.

Here I am trying to come up with creative posts to write to get a few hundred readers a day, while the owner of this site just posts a few pictures and is probably getting thousands of views each day.

Anyway, here are some of my favorite posts that I found yesterday. Take a look. (more…)