Peggy, take note!
For what it’s worth, blog posts featuring Margaret Atwood are half as popular as posts with Gay Pirates, which are themselves half as popular as posts featuring Giant Squid, which are in turn half as popular as posts of Stephen Hawking’s Christmas Album.
But none of them approach the media Juggernaut that is The Feminine Hygene Post!
Sooooo, there I was, feeling all smug and such. My parents, I thought, had they lived to see this day, would have been proud of their little girl. If, that is, they could figure out what I was talking about which, given the track record there is, come to think of it, unlikely.
I was in the top 1.5 million blogs on Technorati.
I felt rather chest-bustingly proud, myself. If this continues, I’ll be Page Three material in no time.
But that was before I knew the real numbers.
There are 29.8 million blogs on Technorati, and in one week of existence this blog has jumped to the top five percent.
Just as soon as I scrape together enough pennies for a drink, I’ll celebrate.
Power to the people!
Snippets from the comments:
Lauren Bacall is going in my dead pool tomorrow.by windowseat on 03/05/06 06:13 PM
I’m sorry. I was hitting the bong for a moment. Did that chick just hit on Clooney during her acceptance speech? by HollywoodSexandCandy on 03/05/06 06:21 PM
I just Adore that Oscar-Speech-Background-Music! It makes Everyone’s Speech sound so Over The Top and Dramatic, even when they are just thanking their “Producing Partners!” I need to get that orchestra to play behind me the next time My Mom Calls And Asks Me To Explain Why I Am 36 And Still Single. Or I Break Up With A Boyfriend/ “Producing Partner.” by TheDailyRandi on 03/05/06 06:27 PM
And I remind you that the very best thing about drinking extremely expensive booze and then posting is the glorious perfection of the nonsequitage. Behold:
I’ll never forgive Lily Tomlin for nixing Devo‘s appearance on her 80s variety show because she was so offended by the “Whip It” video.by King of All Hacks on 03/05/06 07:08 PM
Thank you for sharing.
And now, the penultimate Oscar coverage, the one you’ve all been waiting for (because you’re too lazy to click on the link, aren’t you, bitches? I know my people):
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God help us all. The sky has opened, Beezlebub has dumped his infernal payload of obvious evil on an unsuspecting Earth. Life as we know it is over. Drive to the desert and start a new civilization, hoping that our horrible, horrible mistakes will not be repeated. This is the end, friends. See you in Hell.
Matt Dillon, the bloggers are not your friends. 
Quick bloggy note: since the start of this blog, very late the night of February 27th, 2006 (ie less than a week ago) it’s gone up in the Technorati rankings by over 100,000. I swear, that makes it totally worth chewing through the leather straps every morning.
In this particular case, censorship literally does equal death.
From HelpPakistan.com. The Pakistani bloggers are requesting that other bloggers download and display one of their images (such as at right) to display solidarity with their cause and outrage that all Blogspot blogs have apparently been banned in Pakistan:
Over the past few days, The Freedom of Expression of Pakistani Bloggers has been under attack by some, if not all, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who has chosen to block all blogs hosted on the blogspot.com domain. Political pressure groups have protested to the government to block those web sites displaying the controversial cartoon images of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) that were hosted on the net. But instead of blocking specific sites, ISPs have simply blacklisted the entire domain, causing thousands of blogs to be inaccessible for viewing or authoring in Pakistan.
I will also take this opportunity to remind my readers that Pakistan’s earthquake-recovery efforts currently still require aid: in fact, they require more winter-grade tents than exist in the world. You can donate here or to the charity of your choice.
