Katie is pulling the plug on Yucky Salad With Bones. Why? Well, like her header says, “for no good reason.” I started this thing what, about 4 years ago, for no other reason than I thought it would be fun. I never paid any attention to how many hits I got, not because I’m some [...]
I mentioned yesterday that I had had a post accepted into the first Manival. I didn’t realize how popular something like that can be, but by the time I went to bed last night I had received more than 500 visitors yesterday, the vast majority of them coming from the Manival or from StumbleOn links [...]
The Art of Manliness website today launched its first Manival, a carnival (collection of blogposts) focusing on various aspects of what it takes to be an honorable man. I first learned of the Manival while surfing Sunday night and saw that the deadline for submitting a post for consideration was yesterday. I quickly emailed a [...]
by the Night Writer Back in January Mitch Berg had a post likening the abortion issue to a ribbon in the middle of a tug-of-war rope, with each side trying to move the ribbon (i.e. public opinion) closer to it’s position. Mitch thought he was seeing signs that public opinion has pulled more to the [...]
Last Friday was the third “birthday” of this blog. Wow, talk about time flying by, and in that time there have been 1,028 posts, totaling more than 530,000 words. So, yes, I could easily have written a book during this time, though it should be noted that Tiger Lilly, the Mall Diva and the Reverend [...]
I was going back through my archives recently looking for a particular photo when I browsed through my August, 2005 posts. Typically I’m much more apt to wince than smile when I look at my previous writings, but I found fond memories in the various accounts from that month: stories of animal home invasions, a [...]
Ok, a couple of months ago I went to a reunion of a bunch of us who had worked at the same ad agency back around the time my oldest daughter was born. In talking to one of the creative gals from the old gang that evening I casually mentioned how I wished I had [...]
It was an honor for me to be invited to be a contributing writer to the new Minnesota group blog True North. I don’t write frequently or deeply about politics but I get a good post off every now and then about the Minnesota scene or cultural anomalies and/or artifacts. To be told I had [...]
At 10:09 a.m. this morning an unknown reader and Qwest customer from Denver, Colorado was the 100,000th SiteMeter visitor to this blog. I estimate that if you take out the number of times that I’ve hit this site myself in the last two and a half years that would mean, oh, 600-700 actual visits (90% [...]
I’ve noticed something unusual in my blog traffic the last month or so: I’ve been getting a lot of http://images.google.com referrals. Unlike the Google-search links I used to get where certain word-searches brought readers, these are driven by photos. Ok, I’ve posted quite a few photos here in the last 2+ years, so that image [...]
