The Green Man has in the past had great hopes of making his fortune from the blog. Sadly, the 65 cents a day that the advertising raises is not enough even for a ancient woodland spirit to survive on.

Just when hope was all but lost along comes Hollywood. It seems they have noticed that some of their key demographics do not watch that much TV these days. They are on the web and many are visiting blogs. So it is then that, when Paramount Pictures wanted to promote their picture "The Manchurian Candidate", they came a knocking on the door of a number of blogs, Instapundit and TheTruthLaidBear to be specific.

Apparently their blog advertising budget was only in the 4 figure category but, hey, if those digits are on the left hand side of the decimal point, The Green Man is interested. Now all I have to is wait for a film on something GreenMan-like and I'm in the money.

Read more in Wired.