May 21 2007
Hey, Where’d Everybody Go?
For the two (2) people that still read this blog, you’ll both remember that, until recently, many of these posts were about music, humour, and entertainment links or videos, randomly scattered with my personal lame-brain commentary as to the various state of affairs in the world (read: Hollywood).
As both of you may have noticed, the focus of this blog has changed significantly over the past several months, more towards my own personal travel activities.
I have done this intentionally, hoping to gear-up to write mainly about my upcoming Vision Quest to Far East Asia — of which I have already begun doing (more for me than for any other reason).
I just took the opportunity (read: remebered) for the first time in several weeks to check my visitor statistics for this blog.
Good god. I swear the new Beta version of Google Analytics has crickets chirping in the background (they’re a buch of vindictive mutherfuckers, ain’t they?).
Indeed, apparently nobody cares about my own personal issues, my travels, where I’m going, or the places I’ve been.
My site traffic has dropped tremendously — even in the weeeks since I sold my condo and figured out I would be traveling Southeast Asia for the next several years.
Bummer. I thought I was more interesting that that.
But not to worry, I’ve hired a bunch of tap-dancing monkeys to entertain you fuckers between my boring travel tales.
Blah.
UPDATE: According to this guy, I’m supposed to “blog for my readers.”
Two problems:
1. That assumes I have readers.
2. That assumes I care about my readers. Yeah, that’s right, I’m talkin’ to you, ya’ mook.
Both of these are questionable propositions, to say the least.
You know how to tap?
What kind of monkeys are we talking about here?
If it helps at all, I only recently discovered your blog (from about the time you declared you’re rich…) and I couldn’t agree with you more about the state of Phoenix–I go back at least once a year and it changes every time. I was actually going to suggest that a Jeep is kind of painfully hot in AZ this time of the year, but I guess you got to the dry heat and figured it out.
Good luck in SE Asia.
It rained in Miami over the weekend. Matt is no longer in Miami. Hmmm…
It’s because you’re Jewish.
K, of course I know how to tap … duh, doesn’t everyone?
C, what kind o’ monkeys? Why, Slouch Monkey, of course. [ba-dum-bum]
PGS, thanks for reading, and thanks for the well-wishes. I’ll do my best not to get killed.
V, only now do you realize the full power of the dark side of the force.
T, jealousy is such an ugly thing. No worries, have fun on your monsterous daily commute! In the rain. And the snow. And the ice. No really … enjoy. … Sucker.
Hey, lay off of Matt people. The last thing I need is an angry surfer on a vision quest sleeping on my couch 15 feet away from my knife block.
Oh, Matthew… when will you learn not to mock the gods of New England weather? Have you learned nothing from these past months?
BTW, it’s 75 degrees and gorgeous now. Enjoy the rain of toads, fucker.
I havent gone anywhere… I actually visit your blog from 3 different sites. So I guess I visit you on average 12 times a week. I just dont read EVERYTHING or leave comments but dont worry. I am here. I kind of liked your stories about your travels. That is why I blog rolled you in the first place.
You know what I say – blog for yourself – write about what you want to write about. Now that being said – if your goal is to be the next A-List blogger and blog your way to fame and fortune (first of all good luck, second is that really what you want?) then for all means – pick a subject, focus on it, become an expert in it, network like crazy about it, spend your days and nights blogging about it, and maybe your dreams will come true.
Otherwise, I say to do it for you – and possibly for your mom (but in my case, my mom doesn’t even read my blog – so that leaves me).
for god’s sake, i read your dirge every day.