It’s just a number and it’s not even accurate but according to my site counter I will hit 3,000,000 visitors this week. There are also RSS feeds, feedburners, and other ways that people access this blog that don’t show up in the stats so I’m told the actual number is significantly higher. I still have no clue how any of this works. I'd have an easier time comprehending the Theory of Relativity than Widgets.But I do want to take this opportunity to thank all 3,000,000+ of you. I’ve been writing this nonsense for 3 1/2 years, almost 1500 posts. This blog fulfills a dream – to do a ton of writing for absolutely no profit.
Still, these milestones serve as a great excuse to ask you guys to write to me today. Especially new readers, lurkers, and AMERICAN IDOL finalists. Let me know where you’re from, how long you’ve been here, how you found the blog, and any thoughts of what you do or don’t like. I do pay attention to the feedback. You’ll notice I have not reviewed STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP in over two years. All I ask is you leave a name.
This has been a labor of love. And I can’t tell you how many great people I’ve met as a result of this folly. So to paraphrase the airlines: “I know you have a choice of 7,846,935,833,8563 blogs, thanks for reading mine.”
And thanks in advance for leaving a comment.
208 comments :
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 208 of 208I've been reading and laughing over two years. I think I found you just screwing around looking for something to read and was instantly hooked. Thanks for the laughs. Got you as a shortcut on my Blackberry and read you on the way to work every morning.
Stan in the Bronx
I found your blog last year while I was plowing through my Wings DVDs. I had done a google search on Wings and your site came up. I've been coming back ever since. I'm 26 and live in Seattle via SLC. I've told all my friends about your blog.
Ben
Longtime lurker here. I discovered you about 3 years ago during one of my recurrent periods where, in my head, I ditch my too-stressful job in DC, return to Southern California, and finish the Great American Screenplay. I kept reading because of your wit and honesty, hey, you tell some stories that make me laugh. You're on my Bloglines and one of the few blogs I regularly keep up with. BTW, it is not possible to dish too much dirt on Cybill Shepherd and Mandy Patinkin.
Just saw this.
I found your blog through Sepinwall. I'm from LA but am currently living in Nashville, TN. I think the first thing I read on your blog was one of the growing up in 1960s LA pieces and it reminded me of home. I grew up in the 90s but if I had a time machine I'd transport myself to LA in the 50s-60s I think.
So I've been checking in at least once a week for about a year now and love it.
Tim
Well I found this blog trying to look up WHO ARE THE PEOPLE who worked on and in particular wrote a show like Frasier... because I think it's the finest and funniest thing I've ever seen on television. And now you have a blog that lives up to that so I keep coming back for more fine and funny things:) I'm Serbian, writing from Serbia.. just so you know you have fans in some very far corners of the world. Well, cheers :)
I'm from Ann Arbor, MI and I've been lurking for about a 1/2 year - I actually found you through Alan Sepinwall's blog, and the behind the scenes insight on writing's what's kept me coming back.
Elizabeth from Boston here. I was pointed to your blog by an aspiring screenwriter friend, and added you to my Google Reader through RSS. I have loved your shows, and I'm glad to read your words.
I'm in the business, where creativity and steel toes meet, and am always happy to widen the scope to well, everything. It was on one of those purely curious and random trawlings that I chanced on a *clicky* that brought me here.
I laugh, I snort, I am surprised, I am informed, I find new pieces to puzzles that are ever floating in the ether, I (re)gain context and perspective amid rollercoaster days.
I pop in, usually under a whim of FindingNemoesque rediscovery (for the sheer volume of bloggage alone), and depart again often with a delayed realization of a feeling like taking off a jacket that's too small. I just feel vaguely better somehow.
I also grew up on a steady diet of M*A*S*H reruns, and my family had no idea how or why I got hooked into the show as a kid. I dunno what it means, or how it ultimately shaped me, but it's nice to also be able to say thanks for that, as well as the blog as a whole.
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