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how do, stranjuhs
I’ve been doing this for quite awhile now. Writing this web site, I mean. The archive might be a little misleading, incomplete as it is; the earliest entry might be from 2002, but there were a couple of years’ worth of posts that I accidentally torched during a bad migration from Blogger to Movable Type. (Or maybe from Movable Type to Wordpress. I can’t remember. It’s been awhile, as I said.) Before that, the site was a magazine that I took way too seriously.
Some good things have happened because of this site. I’ve met some interesting people, made some friendships (some that date back to the days of the magazine, which means that some of my oldest friends are people I’ve never met), built a business, made a living, blah blah blah. My fiancee read my site obsessively before turning her laser gaze on me.
But all these years and I still don’t have much of a clue who’s reading. On good days a couple hundred of you stop by, and a few less on the weekends or stale weekdays, but other than a few of you in particular, I don’t know you all from the stupid woman who parked her Toyota in the middle of my street this evening. (If you are her, you owe the poor old man I almost ran down on the sidewalk a big fat apology.) Some of you comment here and there, and while it’s usually my sister or a couple of friends who like to make cracks about me, there have been a few interesting discussions (like the one about the crazy woman who thinks she’s a literary agent and has been duping the shit out of people, which is still hands-down the most popular post on this site, which means none of you industrious folk have put her out of business yet).
I still don’t know who you are, or why you read. Mint can’t tell me that, and that’s the shit I’m really interested in knowing. What made you visit my site? Why are you reading it? Do you enjoy it, or do you think it’s a ghost of the web site it once was? Are you here for the movie reviews? Those dusty old dialogues? To swoon for your irresistible host? Do you keep coming back because you want to see just how truly low a site past its prime can sink?
That’s your homework. I hope you’ll comment. I know I will!
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August 15th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
dood your web site like totally sucks
do better
August 15th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Oh, you kidder, you.
August 15th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
dont write back to me stoopid
(dont you know they will all think they are witnessing your descent into complete madness)
i mean wtf dood
August 15th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
I found you via the 9rules site. I don’t use Mint. The only thing I am able to see about my readers is the who uses what RSS feeder. That’s it. Oh and it’s interesting to see what people search for and how I somehow come up in their searches; my blog that is.
August 15th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Let’s see if I can contribute something useful. I wandered over a while back via unfoldedorigami.org (R.I.P.), read the Eleanor Sketches and loved ‘em. I’ve been hanging around ever since.
Oh yeah, my name is Jamie, and I hardly ever comment unless someone asks nicely.
August 15th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
RIP, indeed. UO was a terrific site.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Oh, so now you’re just going to start stealing my ideas? I see how it is.
I come back every once in a while just to remember that there are still people in the world that use 7pt text on websites.
Wait, who are you again? I’m confused.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Dude, when will you learn? All I ever do is steal people’s ideas.
I am waiting for people to start following my 7pt text trend. So far it is not happening. That’s alright. The longer I do it before it catches on, the more visionary the media will make me out to be.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Yo. I think you came to me before I ever came to you. That may be a lie. I mean, I was vaguely aware of you through Manual, but I can’t say I was a regular reader back then.
Not sure why I keep coming back here. I guess I’m like one of those lab mice with the electric shocks that just wont learn.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:58 am
I found this site through either CSS Import of Design Shack, I don’t recall. I liked the design and read a couple posts which made me smile so I tossed you into Bloglines.
To be honest, I skip the movie reviews. No offense, I just am usually reading at work and those shits are long.
Plus, I was introduced to Dinosaur Comics through this site, so I’m forever in your debt.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:59 am
‘Those shits are long.’ Yeah, man, you’re telling me. Sometimes I just don’t know when to stop. That made me laugh, though. Those shits. Heh.
August 16th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
I read because… you are my brother.
And this way, when you call and start in on a topic I know could be really long, I can be all, “Yeah, I read it on your site. Next!”
Just kidding. :)
I enjoy The Shallow End links you provide - because I never find cool things to read online on my own so I just come here.
August 16th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I come here because sometimes there isn’t a new Achewood.
August 18th, 2006 at 6:40 am
i come here because yer posts are somewhat entertaining!
August 18th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
I read “deeply shallow” because I want to know more about the man who my godchild loves and will marry on Nov. 11, 2006.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Uh-oh.
August 26th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I have no idea how I originally came about ds. Maybe fireland? Or maybe something else? I remember emailing you when the dialogues thing was happening, though. But then uh I assume you know I read the site since I’m probably the only person using my links page to get here. I also assume you roll your eyes and go, “maggie must be the opposite of busy today.”