I mean moreso. Pre-rehab style. What can you say about Courtney Love that hasn’t already been said in an arrest warrant? But you gotta luv those Banana Splits!
Operation Global Media Domination: the network situation
Since Hurricane Lucy Gao hit, stats haven’t been nearly as much fun to check as usual. They’ve been bigger, juicier, and technically more exotic, but only half as much fun, because I always know that my top posts are going to be Lucy Gao‘s email, Lucy Gao doesn’t need a PA, she needs an enema, and Lucy Gao Revealed, plus Beautiful Agony, the Mentos boys, and Blackzilla, which I did not realize was the name of a popular line of porn flicks when I posted it.
No, really. I didn’t.
But now it looks like the hurricane is finally winding down, and to that I say it is ABOUT FUCKING TIME!
Yes, I liked having 3300 hits a day. I liked being the #2 blog on WordPress. But I’d rather be loved for my entire blog than just for five frickin’ posts, people!!! What good is it being the Pavarotti of the goddam blogosphere if all people ever see is Lucy Fucking Gao and their beloved mango porn??? Eh? I ask you that!
In any case, it appears that the storm has abated and I have managed to keep nearly 50% of my new readers, although 10% of them have only come by googling “vanityfair.com,” for which I am the #2 result. And I’m kidding myself if I think I don’t owe it, in some sense, to Lucy Freaking Gao, who even got me a link from CBS News, FFS y’all! Even though it’s only half as good for hits as a link from the front page of WordPress. Shhhh, don’t tell the producers!
I have also learned, from my comments on Chartreuse and Guido‘s blogs, that references to the size of one’s breasts are excellent for hits, although moreso with Americans than with Brits. Benny Hill was born in the wrong country, Itellya.
In any case, I am inexpressably grateful to Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair for knocking that snobbish intern off her throne and giving me, at last, some surprises in the Stats page.
Hail our new #1 post! (which we know we owe entirely to people searching for Suri Cruise pix, but we’re not real choosy over here if you haven’t already noticed)
no state funeral for Steve Irwin
UPDATE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION: Film at eleven?
Although Australia offered a full state funeral, in accordance with his status as a national hero/monument/insane mascot, Steve Irwin‘s family have decided to have a private funeral for him.
from The Australian, via an Absolute Stranger.
Australian
07 Sep 2006STEVE Irwin will be buried in private after hisfamily declined offers of a state funeral, with his father Bob yesterday saying the international celebrity should be remembered as an ordinary bloke.
The laconic, slightly built retired reptile farmer was obviously grief-stricken but he faced the public because it was what his “mate” Steve would have wanted.
Similarly, he declined offers by Prime Minister John Howard and Queensland Premier Peter Beattie for a state funeral.
“He’s just an ordinary bloke and he wanted to be remembered as an ordinary bloke,” said the 66-year-old Mr Irwin, whose two-year-old grandson Bob was named after him.
As Queensland police yesterday locked footage of Irwin‘s death by stingray in a safe, his manager John Stainton said the film was so harrowing it should be destroyed to prevent it ever being made public.
If you go to the front page, you can see that this post has, get this, 4100 comments. For a man who didn’t blog, that’s one hell of a blogstorm.
Fresh Prince of Tom Jones
Fresh Prince and Carleton do it Tom Jones style.
Scoble on flamewars for fun and profit
This is brilliant. Someone is paying people to post flamestrikes against Robert Scoble over at Payperpost, and Scoble is all, like, bring it biotches!
Everyone else has cooler flamewars than me.
Payperpost continues its “hit campaign” on Scoble
As long as you guys keep linking to me I’m happy that someone is paying you to post. Heheheh!
Speaking of which, if you wanna get paid to blog there’s a lot better way to do THAT than get paid a few bucks to post. I know of a few companies right now hiring bloggers. I don’t even have to link to them. I bet that within a few minutes someone will post a link to the sites that are listing jobs for bloggers.
For everyone else: PayPerPost is paying people to link to me and make fun of me. Damn, why didn’t I think of that?
;-)
Fuck that. Why didn’t I???
