Nora, the Piano-playing cat

Musing: How TO get a million blog hits a day

Two months ago I wrote an article called “How NOT to get a million blog hits a day,”discussing some ways people use controversial topics as a way to generate exposure to their website.  Well, I’m glad to report that I discovered on topic which did generate a lot of exposure for my own site during the past three months, and that is the Dodge Nitro commercial “Beautiful World.”  In four months, my site has been visited 1667 times.  The Dodge Nitro commercial post has received 712 visits, accounting for 43% of the site activity.  See?  A simple commercial is all it takes, and not pictures of Saddam hanging or Spears walking around without underwear on.

Now I love the commercial for both the song and the special effects, but I never guessed that so many of you out there also felt the same.  To all of you who visited the site, I want to say thank you, and I hope I can find another commercial for your enjoyment.

Funnies: Bud Light commercial featuring Mencia

One of the many Super Bowl commercials.  This one depicts Mencia teaching an English class to a bunch of foreign nationals.  Enjoy!

Funnies: “Is this the way to Amarillo”

After listening to the news coverage today of all the snow that Amarillo, Texas was receiving, it reminded me of a not-so-cold video about Amarillo I saw a year ago.  Back in 2005, members of the Royal Dragoon Guard serving in Al Faw, Iraq took some free time to film a spoof video to the song “Is this the way to Amarillo” before returning home from their 6 month tour.  When the video was e-mailed to their friends back in London, the video demand ended up crashing the Ministry of Defenses server.  No harm was done, and no one was punished for their actions.

And now, it is my pleasure to bring you the best music video ever to come out of Iraq!

Funnies: John Daker sings…

Unfortunately for John Daker, he is too old to go on American Idol.  Luckily for us, we have a video recording from the 1980s (?) which Simon Cowell can view and critique.