Hi.

My name is Ray Simon and I am the author of the book Mischief Marketing.

Along with my little company, I’m also the official webmaster for MichaelMoore.com. And although we started out volunteering our company’s services to Mike q while before the presidential election, MichaelMoore.com has since become — on many, many days — our full-time project.

As you know, one of the few places you can find responsible news is on Mike's site.  Life changes, and so we change to bring you something you might not see featured on the ever-screaming Fox network.

We continue to work for Mike because we — or I, anyhow — believe in what he is saying. We believe it is important that our views, stifled and unpopular though they may be with mainstream media, be given a platform. And we believe that the Internet is the newest testing ground for the First Amendment.

With Mike’s new book, new movie, touring dates, speaking engagements, diary entries, contests — and the many antics of Dubya and his rich cronies — we’ve been busier than a one-armed, Enron pension-holding paper hanger.

Yeah, co-workers sometimes object that I’ve more or less become obsessed with MichaelMoore.com — sacrificing my own book tours, book sales, and allowing them to slip in ranking at Amazon from 8,000 to their current position (which is okay but, hey, not the same as 8,000). But that’s fine.

I’m really delighted and proud of the mischief marketing I’ve been doing with Mike. It’s exhilarating.

We have so many new ideas to implement on the site, however — so much that can be done — that … well, the more we add to the site, the bigger it gets, and the larger the financial burden becomes. Although I’ve volunteered many of our services, our host has not. Angels are few and far between.

So we apologize for a less than glitzy website. We do what we can with the resources we have. And after all, that's what mischief marketing is about. It's marketing for the little guy.

One day we’ll have a nice budget with state-of-the-art computers, maybe our own server. And MichaelMoore.com will be a streamlined, well-oiled information machine. But for now, I hope you’ll bear with our prototype.

If you feel like buying a book, or just making a contribution to the cause — hey, that would be truly awesome. It would free up our time to work on MichaelMoore.com rather than on … oh, you know … fan clubs and hosiery websites.

Your support has kept us going all along. And I’m sure that, somehow, you’ll help us keep on keepin’ on.

All the best,

Ray