Uh, wow. The soda article clocked over 75,000 unique readers today, and that's...uh, wow. Pretty sure it's never happened before, and we're close to 200,000 unique readers landing at that one article in under four days. I can't explain it. Sometimes, stuff just hits. It's luck and chance and stars aligned, but it feels damned good, and even being stuck in Camden, NJ right now can't steal the deliciousness that is this week. Thanks to all the sites that've linked in, and if you're a new reader, picture me saying "hello" like Mrs. Doubtfire five times in a row.
Actually, I'm not in Camden -- I'm just working there by day, at the Tweeter Center. We're shooting stuff for some "Go, Diego, Go!" live show. Diego = Dora's cousin, for the uninformed. I was warned that Camden was something like Beirut, but the area we're working in isn't so bad. You're not going to invite too many drive-by shootings at a place that hosts live shows where audiences are asked to hold up little paper jaguar masks and make meowing sounds.
I'm at a hotel in Philly now, happily drinking overpriced liquor from the room's mini-bar and waiting to see if the soda article manages to clock an additional forty-million unique visitors in the next hour. I haven't been writing articles too often lately. Maybe this was God's way of saying, "Hey asshole, stop not doing that." Or maybe people just like pictures of Surge.
PS, I don't know if anyone caught Joanie Laurer's appearance on Larry King tonight, "mourning" Anna Nicole and being called out on being a big phony idiot, but seeing that was almost as satisfying as the soda triumph.
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Yes, more articles. MORE.
I forgot to mention, amid all the soda pop palaver, that over the weekend, I bought Cybertron Primus on clearance at Wal-Mart. Now I have two planets in my collection. And He came with the Unicron head bonus. His hands aren’t as big as the Monster Planet’s but they are articulated, so Rock-Scissors-Paper is possible. Now I can focus on getting the Classics before the Movie toys hit the shelves around May.
The Classics set is indeed awesome, and I have several of the figs now, including the new kickass Jetfire! (click my name to see my endeavor to finding, and then getting & reviewing it)
And I too have both Unicron & Primus, and I also have Supreme Cybertron Starscream and Omega Supreme from the Energon line. Clash of The Titans is coming soon!
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I like the “Where Is Springfield?” question much better, because of the reasons you said already, not to mention that there are 18 Springfields in the US, with various “clues” to throw us off, like the town being in driving distance of both Miami and NYC, cliffs, 2000 miles away from also-fictional Arlen, Texas, there is an ocean, there is snow, the “5 Corners” location on the way to Itchy & Scratchy Land, West Springfield being 3 times the size of Texas, it’s capital city is Capitol City, and the abbrevistion of the “state” is NT.