It’s a sad day when my personal blawging muse, Eric “The Turk” Turkewitz decides to hang up his blawging shingle.  But it was bound to happen, ever since he realized that the tertiary syphilis was beyond cure two and half years was enough for any man.  Turk has put his blawg, The New York Personal Injury Law Blog, up for auction.

Ignoring my pleas that he try to broker a back door sale to Walter Olson at Overlawyered, or a really back door sale to the Flea, Turk has decided to offer his blawg on eBay with an opening bid of $1 Million. 

Yes, I know some folks will think that is high, but let me explain a bit. If the new owner decides to monetize this blog by using it in an advertorial manner, then s/he only has to get a couple of decent cases to make the investment pay off. If done right, it could pay for itself in as little as a year or so. I therefore believe the actual sale price could be significantly higher.

Turk goes on to suggest a bunch of great ideas to facilitate the continued greatness of the blawg, ranging from SEO optimization to link swapping to having some kid from Bangalore write it for the winning bidder.  He’s got all the bases covered.

But I have been duly authorized, through some creative email editing, to serve as the Turk’s honest broker in negotiating a deal and thereby avoiding eBay’s outrageous final value fees, which are nearly as bad as lawyer referral fees.  We can negotiate the heck out of this in minutes and have you up and blawging by tomorrow morning.  By the end of the day, you’ll probably have a dozen new major car crashes in your pocket, enough to pay back that Biglaw loan plus cover your law school student debt and buy your momma a new McMansion.  It’s like free cash.  And you can even work at home.  In your pajamas.  It doesn’t get any better than this.

Don’t duke it out with the riff-raff on eBay, only to see your hopes dashed by some last minute sniper from Iowa.  You know how sneaky those Iowans can be.  Get ahead of the curve by letting me negotiate your deal for you.  I’ve got the inside track, because the Turk knows that I would never steer him wrong.  There’s always a “buy it now” price hiding behind that opening bid, and I can make sure you nail this down before some zero-feedback joker gloms it up while you’re waiting to select.  I am there for you.

So if you want to buy your way to blawgospheric greatness overnight, chances are that you will never see an opportunity like this again.  Trust me.

Also, a negligible portion of this sale will go to the Holden H. Oliver Memorial Fund for wayward children.