FACTOIDS FROM A QUINTILE OF BLOGGING

Most-viewed post in TBP history: The Guide To Picking A College Major, and it’s not even close.

Posts I enjoy writing the most: Pickin’ on the Big Ten.

Odds that Tony Kornheiser and/or Colin Cowherd will make “guest” PotB10 appearances in 2005: 1:1.

Series I started but never finished: Seven Deadly Sins, Bad 80s Cars, Uncle Tupelo Appreciation Week.

Posts that I thought deserved wider recognition than they got: Fake 80s Movie Catchphrases, Debate Review, The Politics of Existentialism.

Thank you, however, for not pointing out how bad these posts were: The Process of Predation, The Upper Midwestern Bill of Rights, Be a Rock Critic!, What I’m Reading These Days

Person most frequently mocked on this blog: Jim Rome.

Second most-frequently mocked person:Mark Hasty.

Number of times I’ve had to sleep on the couch because of something I blogged: Zero.

Number of times I probably should have been exiled to the couch: At least six.

Beverages that fuel TBP: Coffee, TaB, Diet Cherry Coke, Verifine Fruit Punch.

My sincere wish for you, the reader: That you would continue to find this site enjoyable.

My sincere wish for me, the blogger: More-frequent visits from the Topic Fairy.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Long-time TBP readers know that one of this site’s more-popular features is “The Search Engine Answer Guy,” a sarcastic look at my search-engine referrals which I used to post monthly, back when I had time to post anything on a monthly basis. The very first SEAG concluded with a subtle dig at Roman Polanski, based on his well-known proclivities. I figured it was a nice way to make light of the fact that lots of people were coming to this site looking for porn.

Ever since, the #1 search phrase at this site has been some variant of ‘naked 13-year-olds,’ linking to SEAG #1. I really don’t care. If I slow down people looking for child porn, that can only be a good thing. But there’s a lesson in that for bloggers.

DOS OF REALITY

Today, March 23rd, marks the second anniversary of TBP. I’ll be providing more retrospective content as the day goes on, but now, I really have to get some work done.