Just what it sounds like. My quest to conquer the global media and take over the world. Maybe I can get my library fines cancelled…what can I say? It’s a last-ditch effort.
So yesterday my power goes out at 2pm, just as I am seeding the Bullshit Jobs post with lovely linkies. It's still out. So, for yesterday raincoaster had precisely one, count 'em, ONE post.
And the record for the highest number of hits in one day.
So, let me see if I get this: unless I am posting about Michael Sandecki and Clay Aiken, Mentos and Diet Coke, or Orgasm Videos, you basically don't want to hear from me. Okay, fine. Be that way. See if I care.
Just you wait, your rejection will turn me back towards the Squid. You'll be sorry.
That's right: despite (finally) breaking into the top 140,000 blogs on Technorati (of 43.6 million), raincoaster is heartlessly abandoning the inconsistent, illogical, and inaccurate Technorati rankings for a new favorite toy.
That's right. Something useful on the Huffpo. Whodathunkit, eh? But me wuvs this little tool and will abuse it daily, repeatedly, and with much affection and generous lashings of lube (gin Martinis, "for Mrs. Parker").
From Gawker:
The HuffPo’s virgin media blog Eat the Press has an entertaining new time-waster: the People Ranker, which charts the levels of buzz in the blogosphere. Just enter a string of names, and the fun little gizmo spits out popularity contest-style results. We love it — it’s so much easier to be snotty and judgmental when you have concrete data.
Yes indeedy it is. And why does raincoaster love it so much? Let's take it for a slow and careful, quarter-turn by quarter-turn spin, shall we?
Left to right:
Perez Hilton, raincoaster, Jessica Coen, Sebastian Junger, Michael Lewis
And Poof! Just like that, a meme dies. Yes, Beautiful Agony is no longer the top post in the raincoaster blog. Let's look at the past 24 hours, shall we?
Going to the Past 24 Hours cam…we can see that yesterday, the top post was The 100 Most Influential People in History, followed by Operation Global Media Domination: The Search for Meaning (talk about going meta with OGMD), and then Beautiful Agony.
So far today it's a half-nekkid Britney Spears with hey y'all! coming in on top (and if you have any doubts she's a top, just ask Timberlake or K-Fed), three lengths ahead of The 100 Most Influential People in History, and then Geoffrey Chaucer's Hottest Pickup Lines of the Fourteenth Century.
Sex and power, power and sex. Plus ça change…
Update! Due to its posting on a British forum with which I am entirely unfamiliar, despite the pic of Viggo in the heading (I thought I knew all of them, dammit) the current most popular post on the blog is 06-06-06 Helpful Questionnaire: Is My Child The Devil’s Son? Because this is a question that has occurred to all parents at one time or another.
Quickie 6*6*6 roundup:
06-06-06 Helpful Questionnaire: Is My Child The Devil’s Son?
Well this should be good for hits.
A recent exchange on the blog of UK human anomaly Vicus Scurra.
Raincoaster, old wombat, is that what you meant by ‘tidying up links’?
Yes, that is what I meant. Since they were messed up, how was I to know they weren't links? I don't read HTML or Firefox. Gates won't let me!
Since you've cleaned it up, whatever it was (and it never pays to look too closely at other people's messes) I shall give you a link, just as soon as you post something about mango porn. Some of us are still hit whores, you know, and you can't expect me to make an exception to my standards just for you.
raincoasterRaincoaster, thank you so much. Your placing the words 'mango porn' here mean that I will get more traffic in the next 3 weeks than "Ahmed's Erotic Mango Emporium" in Finchley does in a year.
Vicus Scurra
Let it not be said that I am not there for my friends; mi pervs es su pervs.
raincoaster 