I’ve been blogging in a not too serious fashion for a couple of years now. I’ve been writing off and on forever. I used to listen to talk radio and read the editorials in the local papers and these were often all I needed to get a good head of steam up. Somewhere along the line I just stopped caring about most of the stuff they talk about in these places. I mean, it’s like Howard Stern, once you’ve heard one show, by god, you’ve heard them all. I don’t care who killed Kennedy. Whining about the war isn’t going to end it. I’m the only person on earth that doesn’t check out TMZ to start my day. Yes, Paris is pretty, but I don’t need to see another picture of her. Ever.
I tend to write about things that interest me, movies, books, work and my tiny quest to make some money once in a while. I used to sell books on Amazon, until they upped the cost of selling cheap books and ran all of us low cost book sellers off. I then found that I could sell Hawaiian Shirts at a reasonable profit, but I could not find enough Hawaiian shirts to sell. If you have a closet full of Tommy Bahamas and Reyn Spooners you want to get rid of, let me know.
So in an attempt to be a little more hip and with it, I have been looking at Google Trends. Here is a pretty cool little page that tells you what the ‘hot’ topics of the day are. As I write this, on Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia is a hot topic. At the moment Spanish Painter Joan is number one, even though there seems to be nothing new on the topic. And that is the trouble for me. Most of the really hot topics are things that make very little sense to me. Grom Gelato is a big story as they have long lines in NY to sample their fancy Italian ice cream.
Yahoo Buzz is also a fun source of what people are looking for. Number one is W magazine.
Lycos Top 50‘s a number one item: Poker.
So I should be writing a post about a Spanish Painter named Joan playing poker on Friday the 13th while looking at sexy pictures of the Beckhams in W. Yeah, that would get some hits. Not.
