Hey, so it's 2012 now. Facebook has been alight the past few weeks on how much we have to look forward to and how we can face any challenges head-on (which is complete and utter crap cos you'll just go back to whatever routine you had the previous year anyway but let's stay positive for the moment... 2012, yeah!!) In any case, I have a guilty pleasure... I hate using that term because a) noone really feels guilty when they do it, embarrassed yes but not guilty and b) you don't derive all that much pleasure from it anyway. Using guilty pleasures for things like having that extra piece of chocolate or splurging on dinner just belittles actual guilty pleasures... like going to playgrounds and trading lollipops for sexual favours from children. That would be a guilty pleasure. It'd be more of a problem if it wasn't a GUILTY pleasure. If I was a child rapist and someone said to me "oh, double dipping is my guilty pleasure. I hate myself for doing it but I just can't help myself", I would reply with "Yeah? No shit. I get the same feeling whenever your son's around". Bam. Now it's awkward. You shouldn't have brought up the double dipping thing. So, small guilty pleasures should really be more of an "embarassing thing I do".
So, an embarassing thing I do is to check the stats for my blog every once in a while. Just to see how it's doing. And feel good about myself. Until I actually see the amount of people who visit the blog. Then not so much on the feeling good about myself. But in any case, I found that the most visited posts are the ones with pictures on them. Specifically, my top two posts are 1) the one with the picture of Andrew Garfield as Spider-man and 2) Pippa Middleton's ass from the royal wedding. Whatsupwitdat? My blog is basically frequented by nerds who can't wait to check out Spiderman's costume and horndogs for gratuitous photos of Pippa Middleton.
Obvious enough, the emo rants are never visited... fine, saw that coming a mile away (y'all have no sympathy) but you would think that a somewhat quirky and whimsical post with a touch of observational humour that I strive so hard to perfect would be somewhere in the top 3, wouldn't you? Actually it is number 3 but that post is tainted by a video of a Thor trailer parody so visitors might actually be skipping the humour altogether.
Now, what should I do with this new information? The wannabe economist in me wants to run behavioural economics experiments.... let's try this on:
Megan Fox naked Abbey Clancy naked Katy Perry naked nude sex leaked photos hardcore pornography Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
That should generate some traffic.
