Oh, why not?
So.
After a very busy year of posting (946 entries, down over 50% from the previous year, for whatever that's worth), what were the most popular entries, judging from a combination of comments, email, and page hits? (Mostly page hits and email, actually; this site doesn't tend to get a lot of comments posted, oddly enough. Ah, well. But I digress.) Were they deep philosophical entries? .... Wait, I didn't have any deep philosophical entries. Strike that.
Were they biting political commentaries, such as the recent Fighting the Oncoming War?"
Well ... no.
Were they trenchant social commentaries, such as the pieces on Augusta National's ongoing rather stupidly handled campaign to exclude women until such time as they decree it appropriate? Or perhaps one of the many gay rights pieces? Or even one of the many pieces on racial issues?
Nope. Not one.
So what, then, you might be asking, were the most popular pieces on this site? Curiously, both of them came from this past December. And those pieces were .....
(1) Midge knocked up! News at eleven! and
(2) Here comes Santa Claus ... or you know, maybe not
Yep. A pregnant doll and Santa.
Makes you wonder sometimes, don't it?
(That said, the Augusta National pieces pulled the most consistently weird comments, both in email and on the site.)
Posted by iain at January 03, 2003 04:32 PMComments
