Oddly enough, despite my giving up drinking for most of the month, August proved to be an especially productive month on my 'drinking blog', Barstool Blues - whereas I was often struggling for inspiration rather on Froogville. The two blogs ran neck and neck the whole way, and finished the month - for the first time ever, I think - in a dead heat.
Yes, there were 39 posts and close to 12,000 words on both Froogville and Barstool Blues last month.
We've just passed our 55,000th recorded visitor on Froogville (at least, according to the deeply flawed Sitemeter counter over there in the sidebar), while The Barstool is now lagging badly behind, still just shy of the 35,000 mark.
However, we did 'enjoy' an unexpected flurry of comment activity on The Barstool when a Canadian singer recently relocated to China got miffed at my balanced review ("70% right, 30% wrong") of one of her shows here and incited her demented fan club to come and flame me. Check out that spike in the traffic.
Gosh, yes, I haven't had so much fun since that run-in with the KKK back in '96.
2 comments:
Wow. Sorry I missed that kerfuffle at the Barstool.
One of her fans mentioned that you'd completely missed the point of her "Lentic project." I wondered what that was, so I just visited her Web site, which conveniently says:
"noun. the new project by [ARTIST'S NAME], embodying the opposite meaning of her given name (fire and speed)."
So the current project is meant to induce a state of liquid ease, I guess? She probably just hasn't established the new fan base yet.
That was a particularly exasperating comment for me - but I didn't want to get dragged into trying to engage with those people.
I didn't realise there was a "project" and I could care less what the point of it was. I just went to see a girl sing some songs (the majority of which, in fact, were not, I think, from that Lentic album).
I know I'm a bit snarky at times, and that 'artists' are over-sensitive souls, but.... really, it was a mostly positive review. That attitude of her hardcore fans seems to be: "She's lovely, lovely, LOVELY. And if you don't 'get' how lovely she is, well, then you just shouldn't say anything, you, you HATER."
They don't seem to twig that if you write a review like that, nobody takes it seriously.
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