Pepsi Challenge

11/10/06

Spent the morning setting up my blog and have so far received 6 visits: my brother, his dog, 3 weirdos and the Head of Sponshorship from Pepsi Corp (this was on myspace which proved to be shit). For once the basic infringement of privacy laws has worked in my favour, these guys have spyware that makes the CIA look like a bunch of boy scouts (not difficult admittedly), they noticed my interest in promoting their company and amazingly want to work with me.

The rules are simple. I get a $10,000 a year salary plus a dollar per subscriber. All i have to do is lose all self-esteem, let Pepsi put their brand all over my site and mention their name at least once per blog. No problem i thought. However, hidden in the small print, a clause mentions that when Pepsi is mentioned it has to be positive. Now this is not easy, in fact it´s fair to say that Einstein would struggle with this one. I walked down to the park, sat in the sun and read my book. Inspiraton didn´t strike neither did an apple so i trudged back up the hill and had a late lunch. Read some more, currently reading Julio Cortazar - the winners, and pondered and then lightning struck and i remembered a period in Bolivia. Eureka!

Pepsi has one very useful purpose. When you are struck by the shits a flat can of Pepsi will kill every bug in your stomach. So i urge you all to go buy a Pepsi and put it in the fridfge for that rainy day when you´ve drunk too much and thought a kebab, dodgy curry or anything from Budgens/Mcdonalds/KFC was a good idea.

Tomorrow i´m off to Rio and weather permitting will be drinking cairprihnas on a beach, you will thus be blog free for a few days.