Okay – so most Google searches that lead people to my site are silly. People are looking for something, they get to my site, and immediately click off.
But there are a couple of posts that people habitually stay to read – because – well, either the title of the post was exactly what they were looking for, or it immediately launches into the history of some event that they are curious about.
They are a very strange eclectic group of posts – but it’s interesting that somehow these ones are, to quote Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, sticky. People land on them and they seem (at least from the time spent) to stay.
They have nothing in common.
They are
Howard Hughes’ OCD (oh, and check out the comment thread on that one … I have purposefully left it open, even with all the spam attacks, because … well … just look at the conversation going on there.)
My post about St. Elmo’s Fire
hahahahaha Classic. Azerbaijan and Judd Nelson’s flaring nostrils. It all makes sense.
Oh, jiminy crickets, “St Elmo’s Fire.” As a guy, I had one overwhelming thought: it’s probably bad news if the prettiest actor in the entire movie is male. “Let’s rock!” (That line breaks me up every time. Great read, Robbie.)
That aside, yes, it’s an 80’s must. Breakfast Club was a better movie, though. (Do you think they just moved from the high school down the block to the sound stage and handed them the scripts for St Elmo’s Fire, only Molly Ringwald was busy that week, and Anthony Michael Hall was grounded for something and couldn’t be in it?)
“Let’s rock!” hahahaha OH, it is so cringe-worthy and so wonderful!!!
That movie has so many embarrassing elements (I believe I have already discussed Rob Lowe’s legwarmers that he wears pulled up over his garage-attendant uniform) – the clothes, the dialogue, the bad acting – and yet every time it’s on I watch the whole thing!
Breakfast Club was definitely a better movie. It still holds up, I think, even though I have moved on from high school (er – I hope). But still – I can’t not watch St. Elmo’s Fire!!!
The OCD comments are interesting. I wonder if it’s anything like earworms. This was me today: “Santa, baby – STOP! STOP IT!”
Sheila, next you should find a movie about somebody with essential tremor, and post about that. I and probably a whole lot of other people will give you an interesting discussion about our coping skills.
Looking back at the comments, I now can’t quite believe there was a time BEFORE I’d seen St. Elmo’s Fire…although I think that time was less than a year ago. And yes, of course The Breakfast Club is a better movie, but it does make me very happy to have now seen both.
Over and over and over and over again. ;-)
I couldn’t believe it when I heard you hadn’t seen it, Dave J! Welcome to the wonderful world of St. Elmo’s Fire!