Stuff and Me

Wait! Stop the presses! A Million-dollar-homepage type site that doesn't suck! Bear with me here. Stuffandme.com. The way it works is you buy an ad on the front page, comedian Aric McKeown takes a funny picture of himself interacting with your product and then he puts it up into rotation. An ad for Running with Scissors Magazine shows him falling down stairs with scissors. One for the band Starlight Mints has Aric bleeding from the head on a dance floor. The ad pictured at left is for his improv comedy troupe. What's neat is he's providing editorial and unique content instead of just throwing up some lame bot. Mr. McKeown told The Spunker, "About 4 weeks ago I read an article about the million dollar homepage and thought, damn, that was a smart idea. I figured there must be another unique advertising idea out there. I came up with Stuff & Me about four hours of reading the article and racking my brain." Another plus?  "It's blatant narcissism, which makes me laugh."