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23 jun 06 "what are some ways you could attract more random visitors to this page?"
i'm not sure i would like a delluge of correspondents/correspondence. i'd have to use another email account strictly to receive questions. i guess it wouldn't be so overwhelming -- i'd just have to pick which questions i wanted to answer, instead of hungrily gnawing at everything i'm sent. but, this hungry gnawing is nice, exactly because i don't have to choose -- potential indecision is extinguished right off by the dirth of questions. i have no choice but to answer "what is 6 * 9?", and furthermore, doing so is probably a good mental/writing exercise. i have, at this point, answered every question i've received. i enjoy writing, and it's nice to have an excuse to do it. my blog bothered me principally because it was so personal. it's easy to write honestly and fluently when you're talking about yourself, at least for me, but i tended to get carried away and write exactly what i was thinking and feeling. as a result, several people got a fairly good idea of the true depths of my depravity. when blogging, i used get a picture of all of these leering voyeurs with a sneaky "teehee, i'm reading his diary" look on their faces, and it makes me want to delete the entire thing. i guess i just have privacy issues, like everyone else -- the blogger is living in a glass house of sorts, like, as it turns out, quite a number of performance artists. Police arrested two Performance Artists yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. but this writing project is sort of different. it's harder to egomaniacally prattle about yourself when you're responding to a question like "what's 6 x 9?", even though i can still manage it to a degree. this is a good solution to "i don't want people reading my diary, but i want to write on the web", because i'd be hard-pressed to come up with an non-personal essay topic every time i wanted to write. getting a question in the mail is like being given a little cattle-prod to the behind. seriously: if i wanted to attract visitors, i'd probably put an ad in google on the keywords "advice column","answer column", etc. but instead, i'm just hoping the few people that still arrive at this site via the teeheehee.net re-direct, while mistakenly searching for directions to and/or prices of the bunnyranch, see the little box, type something in, click the button, note that it actually does get answered, and tell all of their little friends in croatia, or wherever they are. well, someone in croatia probably isn't searching for bunnyranch prices. if i didn't want to put any money into publicity but still wanted some, i might attract visitors just by being a big-mouth and telling everyone i know about it, which i just rememebered i did already. what i might do now is appeal to the people who do visit to tell everyone they know. but remember, this is all what i would do if i wanted to attract more visitors. one must remember, though, that history teaches us that if i want something, i tend not to pursue it, because who cares, really? did anyone see "being john malkovitch"? there's this scene where maxine, the girl both john cusack's and cameron diaz's characters want, is sitting on the couch with the two of them, smoking a joint. she says: The way I see it, the world is divided into those go after what they want and those who don't. The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets. The ones who don't go after what they want... well, who gives a shit about them anyway? then, cusak and diaz simultaneously lunge at her, violently kissing her about the face and neck. if you want to behold the odd phenomenon of cameron diaz looking frumpy, then, if for no other reason, rent this movie. |
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