Friday, May 11, 2007

The Last 100 OR Look Who Came To Dinner

If you want a quick lesson in just how amazing the Internet can be, post something to a site anywhere. Then go back and look at who read it.

Typos and all, lucid or not, bad grammar, no grammar, nonsense, full rant, dissertation, bad comedy....it just doesn't matter. Somebody will read what you wrote. Being able to look and see the geographical diversity of those who either accidentally stumbled across you or actively sought you out is a wonderful exercise in narcissism. It's also cause to marvel that ours is, indeed, a small, small world.

The common ramblings of a middle-aged nobody in Kansas (our Editor-in-Chief) (please don't tell him we said that) (this isn't a job, but it is somewhere to go once a day besides our dealer's house the library).....these ramblings....are being read by an amazing diversity of people who are probably universally sorry they stopped by for a cup o' Therapy.

This week, we welcomed gentleman-callers and likely a few ladies from: Canada, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, France and Mexico. We would like to invite any one of them to invite us to visit their fair land for an author's tour and blog-signing...preferably on a beach and at their expense. (Nous voudrions aller en France, s'il vous plait. Queremos ir a Ixtapa, por favor. And you folks in Portugal, don't even try to pretend you don't speak both French and Spanish.)

Domestic readership saw 19 states infected by our blog this week: Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wyoming, New York, Washington D.C., Arizona, Texas, California, Missouri, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Again...if any of you have an unoccupied spot on the beach to which you would like to invite us for work or respite, we're game.

It should be noted that we are not good company until the Vicodin kicks in. We like burgers and burritos almost exclusively, and thread counts below 300 are for refugees. It's Coke, not Pepsi, iced tea should not be flavored, and one should never put anything in green beans that isn't a green bean. But we're not picky.

We'll have another look-see at who's having a look-see around this time next week! Thanks very much for stopping by. You can leave the money on the dresser.

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