My favorite search term

As previously mentioned, I keep an eye on this blog's traffic, just for fun.   I'm resigned to the fact that about 60% of the traffic here is from people searching some variant of "Playboy" or "Play boy" ("play boy naked videos," "gay play boy," "play gay boi," etc.).  Plus a lot of people get here by searching for variations of "Castro naked."  But every once in a while, I see truly entertaining things in the details.

I just saw my current favorite reason for someone to arrive here:

"San Francisco, California arrived from google.com on 'Go, Play, Boy, Play: Naked guys in the Castro' by searching for Why are there naked people in the CASTRO? Why?"

(Answer: Because it's not against the law.  As luck would have it, one of the Castro's naked guys found the above-linked posting and left a fairly lengthy comment detailing the reason why they wander naked around the Castro, so at least maybe this blog helped someone just a little....?)

What I like about it is the conversational tone.  Whereas I am (and, if my traffic stats are to be believed, a lot of people are) strictly utilitarian in my search terms.  I would search this topic as "naked Castro" or "Castro naked men."  But this search term gives me the image of someone sitting at their keyboard, poring his/her heart out to the computer, crying, "Why, oh, why must there be these naked people in the Castro?  Please make it don't be true!"

Randy Rainbow

Randy Rainbow is Dating Mel Gibson

Randy Rainbow Calls Dr. Laura

A blog recommendation:  Randy Rainbow's Bloggity Blahg Blahg. 

But don't take my word for it.  Here are a couple of testimonials:

Frank Conway of BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS:  "I thought I was the only one whose life was a Broadway musical until I found the pot of gold under Randy Rainbow's Bloggity Blahg Blahg. Not only is he hilarious, he loves Broadway Cares so we love him. And he loves us for loving him and we love him for loving us. And we love each other. And that's because none of us got enough love in our childhood. And that's showbiz... kid." 

"Blending Seinfeldian observation and Kathy Griffin's knack for storytelling with a show queen's sensibility...Randy should have you rolling when the new theater season heats up!" -Brandon Voss, The Advocate

You know, I bet "Randy Rainbow" is not his real name.  It's probably "Randall Rainbow."

Life's (and the Interweb's) little mysteries.....

About two months ago, I posted about my top ten favorite new CDs by new artists of 2009.  Considering that I had only bought around ten new CDs by new artists,[1] it was not so much a question of "selection" as it was "what order should I put them in."

Little Boots came in at number 4, and La Roux tied for first (with folk artist Lisa Hannigan, who is, in some ways, the Anti-Electropop).  I stated that as a rule, dance music and electropop were things that I haven't really had a great love for since the 1980s, but these two at least seemed to have some legitimate credit and legitimate talent.[2]  I even stated that this kind of music was stuff that I would ordinarily expect to be making fun of rather than listening to.  At no time did I say that "the year 2009 was a breakthrough for electro pop".  Susan Boyle was on the list, fer cryin' out loud, as well as Megan Lynch's album of songs from Warner Brothers cartoons.

So imagine my surprise this afternoon when I checked my blog stats to find that someone arrived on this blog from Wikipedia.  Following the link, I found a sparse, three-sentence entry headed "2009 in electro pop music."  The first of the three sentences is "The year 2009 was a breakthrough for electropop," with a footnote reference attributing this blog as the source of the statement.

I suppose that writing any kind of blog will inevitably lead one to being cited on Wikipedia at some point or another.  It just hadn't occurred to me.  And, frankly, I would probably prefer to be cited as an authority on some kind of music other than electropop.

Whatever.

------------------------------------------

[1] Yes, I really do mean "CDs" and not "blasted low-quality under-sampled artifact-ridden Internet downloaded mp3s/m4as."  Call me a dinosaur, but I prefer quality to convenience.

[2] After writing that posting, I did actually break down and purchase Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster," considering it to be kind of inevitable.   I did not deem it necessary to edit the blog entry in order to add Lady Gaga to the list.

People of WalMart

Found via Gizmodo:

There's another new blog in town -- People of WalMart (or "POW" for short").

This one is devoted to photos taken of customers at Walmart. Some photos are much scarier than others. Some are much funnier than others. Some are just kind of sad.

It's still young enough (just a couple of weeks old) that you can read the entire site in under five minutes. So be an early adopter just this once.