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Of Penises and Nosebleeds (and Fame)

Posted by John on December 22nd, 2007 at 11:05 pm · 3 Comments

I’ve been quoted by Andrew Sullivan on the Daily Dish again. The first time was for my specialist linguistic knowledge. Today I drew on my rich bi-cultural heritage to provide an explanation of the following picture:

Andrew Sullivan averages nearly 75,000 visits each day, which is about 74,963 more than I get at Mind on Fire. One of my dearest dreams is to become a widely read author. Should it bother me that those writings of mine with the greatest exposure (as anonymous snippets on the Daily Dish) deal with sexually-inspired nosebleeds and grammar rules for inserting “fucking” into a middle of a multi-syllable word?

Tags: Japan · Personal

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 C. L. Hanson // Dec 23, 2007 at 1:44 am

    Well that’s cool! He’s never quoted me, even once…

    Unfortunately, it looks like he didn’t link back to your site when quoting you. That’s not very nice of him — how are you ever supposed to catch up with his hit count if he can’t spare a little helping link between friends… ;)

  • 2 Deborah // Dec 23, 2007 at 5:54 am

    Wow! That was you?! I feel cool by association (I’m a Sullivan junkie).

  • 3 John // Dec 23, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Yay! A fellow Dish Groupie! He spoke at my local library last spring, and all I got was a glimpse of his beard through the auditorium door crack (it was a chi-chi affair, at $25-40 per ticket).

    I’ve only written him 3-4 times, but each time I share my full name and blog address. I guess he’s not big on cross-linking–there’s no commenting, and the only reader content is the stuff he picks from email messages and inserts into posts.

    Someday, though, someday he will notice one of my actual posts and link to it. You will know this when you point your browser to MoF and see the “this user has exceeded his bandwidth usage” message. :P

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