I just reached the million page view mark. Just noticed.
Amazing. How is that possible?
Here was my very first post on my little clunky blog on Blogspot.
At that point, I think I had two readers. My dad and my friend Beth. I also had no comments. I blogged for almost a year before anyone outside my family circle read me.
And what was the first thing that someone linked to? It’s so funny to me – I had been ranting about politics for months. Yes, my blog was different back then, and served a different need. So I was letting off steam on the blog so I wouldn’t bore and browbeat my friends.
But then one day … I put up a compilation of bad reviews of Battlefield Earth – and somehow, someone found it, and linked to it, which then led to Ben Kepple linking to it … and after that, I had more and more readers, until I finally ditched Blogspot. That Battlefield Earth post remains one of the funniest compilations I’ve ever seen in my life – can barely get through it without laughing – and I read it with regularity. I imported it from the old blog. Read it and weep with laughter.
Anyway – I think it’s really funny that all of my political posts went unnoticed – and when I started writing about movies – people actually started linking to me. It was a sign!! Also, how amusing is it that it would be that post because of the whole Xenu Jag-off Couch-Jumping connection with that movie.
So. A million page views. Kind of wild!
To paraphrase Garrett Morris as Chico Esquela: “Blogging has been beddy beddy good to me …”
Thanks for reading, everyone!
Congratulations!
Wow – a great milestone! So well deserved. (BTW, it thrills me no end that your first post was done on my birthday!)
Congratulations!
Congratulations. An amazing number.
Congratulations, Sheila!
And thank you, too.
One of the best out there. Happy one million (even though it’s only 1/75th of the number of years since Xenu unleashed those glorious thetans upon the Earth, praise him).
emily – “praise him” hahahahahaha
You just can’t foist enough on a galactic ruler with unique solutions to population control and an arsenal of nuclear weapons. My poor thetans are quivering at just the thought of incuring his wrath.
The Thetans want me to congratulate you.
But I’d do it anyway.
Still a daily-and-then-some read.
Still a daily-and-then-some read.
Your blog, I mean. Not L. Ron Hubbard.
Yay!
(and there’s new Zach today!)
Happy Million
A very happy one million hits to Sheila O’Malley, who has not only consistently been one of my favorite bloggers, but I’m very lucky to say has also become a good friend. Cheers to the next million, Red….
I knew that checking here 10 times a day would eventually do some good…
Megacongrats!
You’re the tops, Sheila! Thanks for blogging!
JFH – hahahahahahaha
Congrats on the landmark, Sheila, and thank you.
Of course, those occasional ‘hof-meister galleries undoubtedly boosted the page view numbers..
Awesome! And well earned too, congratulations.
Congrats, Sheila.
Thank God I read Ann Althouse’s Instapundit link to you a few months ago. Among blogs I read, this one is truly unique. It’s my oasis from politics!
Sheila’s a millionaire
Well, at least a million page views. Not a surprise given that it’s always interesting and easily one of the best written blogs around. And as if the posts aren’t enough, don’t miss the comments either. If you’re not already
Mucho congrats on the milestone. Your blog is such a joy to read and take part in.
Congratulations! I think you’re incredible.
Congrats and more congrats, Sheila, and huge thanks, too.
As one of the few, perhaps the only one, who misses the old political rants, I still think you are like a breath of fresh air.
Happy 1 Million, Sheila!!!
I can say I knew you back when, like…back when you started it all.
Thanks for all the humorous links, Thanks for all the birthday acknowledgements for icons of varying stature, Thanks for reporting the continuing adventures of Cashel, thanks for the update on the Sox, thanks for taking time to make a reference to ‘boobies’ just for lil’ ol’ me, thanks for creating a tangible location for the ‘Freebie’ List (It really is a therapeutic measure that all should get out in the open) thanks for plenty of movie quote comment races, thanks for the haloween pictures, Thanks for telling us about how you’re not afraid to discipline men who don’t know how to use the word ‘Cocksucker’ in appropriate context. Thanks for the detailed Obits of people who have lived a full life, and left a significant mark for all of us to hope to achieve in life, and thanks for just being such an incredibly freakin’ talented writer.
Eddie Izzard would thank you if he read these pages once in a while, Count Chocula thanks you from his Gother-than-goth abode in an industrial section of some city somewhere scented like clove cigarettes, and I thank you, most of all.
-Ruben, bka Wutzizname
P.S. Did I mention that I’m really glad that you encouraged your writing habit?