I know where this guy is coming from: I get a few proposals a year from potential customers to do projects for them that I consider to have a very low chance of business success.
I clearly state my reservations and try to make helpful suggestions. If they still want to do the project, I try to talk them into a small first-stage project.
It's difficult to take someone seriously when the site looks to be circa 1999. Aesthetics matter, and I don't know if the layout is supposed to be ironic, but if it is, that intention doesn't mix well with this post on a serious topic.
I get that your blog/tumblr site design is a joke, but my eyes weren't laughing. It looks like Geocities and the 1980s had an illegitimate child.
Heh guess I should've swapped out the tumblr theme before posting to HN... apparently experiments in UI design regression are not too well received here