My original intention in starting a blog was to document my last bit of time in New York, and my first bit of time in Seattle, various other stuff that crossed my mind, and projects that I'm working on — and then Emily started posting, which I love, and we have kept it up over time, sometimes more than others. I was talking to a friend about it recently and saying that while I never set out to try to build up traffic, it has naturally built up — not in a crazy way, but a lot more people look at the blog than I would have expected. Google Analytics tracks the keyword searches that drive random people here, and I thought it might be worth sharing a small selection of those with you.

Here are my favorites:

-Lighthouse attendant
-You know you're gold
-I just wanna be a doper person
-Hot dogs say what you mean
-God don't make no junk
-Meat lovers pizza in the trunk
-If you can't open it you don't own it
-Rhymes with steez
-A closed mouth collects no feet
-Ivar Haglund gay?
-Breakfast clam chowder
-Slurp and burp
-DB Cooper Ape Cave [might have to look into that one myself]
-Damned grimly fiendish
-I had a very calm day until this

And, of course:
-Mr. Littlejeans CatAlso, one other note while we're here, behind the curtain, together (wow, awkward). I have removed all the MP3s from the site after receiving a pretty frightening email from Blogger about one of my posts violating copyright (specifically, I had posted a Fela Kuti song and they removed it). But between us, if anyone ever wants an MP3 that has appeared on the site, just hit me up and I will send it to you, as long as you're not damned, grimly, or fiendish, and you just wanna be a doper person.

Slurp and burp,
Strath

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