--The website urlmetrics.com says that my website, the one you're currently reading, is ranked 13,660,425 in the entire United States. I don't know if this is deplorable, or actually really good. There are about 360 million people in this country, but how many of them have websites or blogs? 10%? That would place me 13.6 million out of 36 million, which I guess isn't that bad. But if that ranking also includes sites like msn.com, and other huge pages like that, than the ranking is really impressive. I mean, I don't post any video, or music. Very few pics or links. Mostly, just me ranting, really, and usually about books or movies--not riveting for most people. So, I can't decide if this is really cool, or if it really isn't, or if I just need to get a life. Or any combination. And I don't know how I stumbled upon urlmetrics.com to begin with, as I was just logging off to go to bed. (It's 1 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2015.)
--And the site said this blog has an estimated worth of $749.93! This is interesting because I pay less than $50 a year to keep it going, and I don't sell anything on it, and I don't have any ads on it. Does this mean that my thoughts have actual value? Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...
--So now I'm thinking how I can make the actual $749.93 from this, without putting up any ads. I would never do that to you, my cherished readers, or to myself. So...anyone wanna cut me a check for $749.93?
--If you wanna see for yourself, here's the link. The monthly visits and monthly pages viewed stats are way off, by the way. I get many more than what it says, for both. I got 1,594 pageviews last month, which was a little low for me, according to the Google Analytics stuff. I'm just sayin'. So, I wonder what the ranking would be if the stats were correct on that page? I need a moment to get over myself.
So what else is going on...
--I got just over 19" of snow here this week, Tuesday and Wednesday. And it looks like I'm getting 10" to 12" more Sunday night through Tuesday morning. Damn good thing I have lots of house projects and writing things to do. And I don't mind the cold, as it actually improves my sinuses. Still...I think I can do without for awhile now. I can see more ice on my driveway than cement.
--And it's going to be -3 here Thursday night. That's real temp, not wind chill.
--I've had enough with the Patriots' hijinks, but still...If you make the teams bring their own 12 footballs, you're begging for a problem. I mean, the $1 billion + business that's the NFL can't afford its own 24 footballs for one of the two playoff games playing that week?
--And you can't tell me the other teams haven't been doing something with their footballs all this time. I wonder if the Pats would get ratted on if they didn't win as often. The Jets, for example, rat on the Pats, not the other way around. Speaking of which--Every football team has cameras filming the other sideline--a few years ago during Spygate, before that, and even now, I'd bet. I'd be shocked if that didn't happen in college, too.
--And deflated footballs didn't cause the Colts to lose by 38 points. Unless the balls themselves can score five touchdowns and a field goal, that is.
--Having said that, a note to the Patriots: Let's just play the game, shall we?
--I'm a Pats fan, but I pick the Seahawks to win. The Pats have trouble with great rushing QBs. But Wilson will lose if he throws a handful of picks again. Belichick has already forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, but I'll say it anyway: If I'm the Pats, I try to shut down the Seahawks's running game, keep Wilson in the pocket, and make him beat me with his arm. This will be a lot easier if the Pats can lead early by a score or two, so he has to throw.
--As for the halftime show, well...I'm not her target audience, but Katy Perry is amusing. She doesn't take herself too seriously, and she doesn't try to be more than what she is: a pop star with a core audience of 13-18 year old girls.
--That's not the Super Bowl audience, but we'll see what the Halftime ratings turn out to be.
--And I approve of a recently-released pic of her and her small dog. It's looking at the camera like the person taking the picture has just said, "Wanna go for a walk?" or "Wanna eat?"
--And, please, I'd take Katy Perry over Rick Perry any day, every day.
--Mitt Romney announced this week that he will not run for president after all. When asked how sure he was, he said, "Oh, about 47%."
--Mike Huckabee said he probably will run, and Sarah Palin changes her mind (or, "mind") by the minute, so I'm keeping some blog tabs ready to go, just in case. Cuz there's gonna be a lotta verbal head-scratchin' silliness with those two.
--Speaking of blog tabs, you may have noticed that I have not been using my American Horror Story: Freak Show or Cards and Commentary blogs at all. Just haven't had the time. For the record, this past season's AHS was very good, light-years ahead of Coven. Though the last two or three episodes were just Eh. But well-done Eh, if you know what I mean.
--Biggest beef: Some sort of odd character judgement by the show's creators. For the last two years, the last episode was about most of the characters dying, and what kind of "heaven" they go to.
--And there was something disquieting about watching three people eating popcorn while watching a guy dressed in just his underwear drown to death while chained to a cement block.
--Watching someone struggle and die in pain and vain is...well, watching someone struggle and die in pain and vain. Just because you're watching someone die like that who'd also murdered people and who'd also watched many people die like that, that doesn't mean you're not also murdering him.
--And liking it.
--Now that I put it like that...the last episode wasn't so great after all.
--I'm tired of seeing characters knocked out just so they can wake up and die badly. Off the top of my head, this also happened in: the remake of The Last House on the Left; True Lies; Die Hard 4, all of the Saw movies, and countless other shows and movies I've seen that I forget because it's now 2 a.m. It's done for the same effect--this time by the movie's audience--as described above. The movie-makers will tell you it's done for the audience's catharsis, so the audience will see that evil fails and all is right with the world again--but that's crap, of course, and they know it.
--The movie-makers do that because they assume we all have the same base instincts and desires.
--We don't.
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