I did one of these about a year ago, where I checked out my blog stats and looked back on the most popular blog posts. It’s interesting to me to see what makes this list, versus my own personal favorites.
The most popular post of all time continues to be the most juvenile: the one with “boob” in the title (actually there are two of these), “The World Wide Boob Web turns 30.”
The second most popular post is “I just got robbed while camping.” This makes sense to me because people love to read about the misfortunes of others (it makes us feel good). Also, it has a photo of a cute pug in a blanket. I think it’s possible that people read my blog solely in the hopes that bad things happen to me, and I would just like to say to these people: Stay tuned! I have no doubt that lots more bad stuff will happen to me, and hopefully it will happen soon!
The third most popular post is one that I can get behind if only for the title, “The most temporary of roads and a mustache of menace.” This is about a road washing out, and also about when I experimented with growing a mustache, which made me look even more like a pervert.
A very recent post has quickly shot up to among the most read with “I suffer from acute nostalgia,” and I’m not sure what to attribute that to, except that maybe a lot of us suffer from nostalgia.
Number five on the list is “And so we come to the end,” which is actually one that I love because it was close to a stream of consciousness retrospective/summary of my 2024 trip written in about 15 mins (which is uncharacteristically fast for me) and felt quite a bit different from my usual writing tone. It also included a nice sentiment that I still feel because I have a terrible memory: “I forget so many things as fast as I learn them, but the feelings I remember.”
As to the list of my personal favorites, who can account for taste? Plus, I didn’t read through all my posts, because TLDR, right? I think that if there is a trend among them, it’s that they were perhaps focused more on humor than anything else.
- We Can’t be a Hat and Meme Society
- To Heal Our Rural-Urban Divide, America Needs A National ‘Trading Places Day’
- Load Bearing Potato
- The Next Frontier in Remote Work: Working from Blimp
- My Sheclopsborg is out there somewhere (I like this one if only for the title)
- I’ve lived in my home for 4 years and today I noticed a kitchen cabinet I’ve never seen (I like this because it is one of those unbelievable but true stories)
- Back when the fearsome triglyceratops roamed the earth (I like this, but again, the title is key)
- Two things in life are certain: Taxes and Arby’s
Here are some pics of what I’ve been doing lately, since I haven’t given a travel update in a while. Mostly I’ve been collecting pebbles, or making little mosaics out of pebbles on the beach that wash away with the tide. I am not great at it, but I think I could just pick pebbles off the beach all day long and be pretty happy.
Also, I had something in the Star Tribune recently. Give it a read.
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