Today's Apocalypse Sign: 1000 Hits And Counting

Yesterday my blog reached its 1000th hit. The bad news: hits 1000 and 1001 were me viewing and editing the music I recently attached. Oh well, it is still 1000 hits in 5 months and may not be too shabby considering this blog is very fluid in subject matter.

So on this historic day, I would like to recognize some of the first followers I garnered and give any of you who read this, that are not already following them, a first class invite to visit their sites. None will disappoint. Plenty of links below.

Let's get started:

I want to first thank Pat Tillett and TS Hendrick for being my first two (dare I say simultaneous) followers. I am glad they were, as I have then weaved my way through blogland by reading their great sites and expanding my blog reading through following some of their followers. Guys, your sites are the first ones I look to read each day. They have been, and remain, amazing, both for text and visual reasons.

Angie from cinemaobsessed.com was one of the next people to join this fledgling blog. Angie and her sidekick Chantale, review movies 24/7 (I think) they have got lots of funny stuff on their site and post like 20 posts a day (just kidding but it is a lot!). They have reminded me of films I need to see and some I need to see again but maybe for different reasons. Their 89 Second Reviews are hilarious. Thanks gals!

I believe I began reading the Badass Geek before I even fired up my blog. His Seinfeld-like life stories are always entertaining and thought-provoking. Every post under the First Time Here list on his blog are classics. I believe every guy that finds his site will read the hilarious ...get a papercut on my balls. Don't be eating popcorn when you read this one because you WILL choke to death from laughing! Unless someone is around to do the Heimlich. I love this blog!

Now the Sleep Talkin' Man is a brilliant concept blog. Posts are short and require nothing more than transcribing the ramblings of Adam when he talks in his sleep. The fact he is British just makes it that much more funny to me. Ironically I caught his blog before he went all Hollywood and commercial. Then, like 3 days after I first read it I saw his blog featured on my local news and the Today show. If you think you get a bump in followers by being a Blog Of Note, holy shit! the Today show blows you up into full on stratosphere hits (4,000,000 post-Today show) and followers. I posted about him some time ago and you can read it here if you missed it. He was on the Today show back in January of this year, as of today he is at 10677 followers and has had 6,255,033 unique hits to his site. If you have never been...go check it out. Wait, you say he doesn't follow me? Really, but I thought...what? Shit, now I have promoted his site for nothing!

Copyboy at Not Worth Mentioning handles diverse and socially important issues with aplomb and creative insight (did I get that right, dude, Do I get my $20 now?). And he can turn you on to some great shit you never thought of for Christmas presents. Thanks to him I have all my shopping done early. Won't the family be surprised at the Russian roulette game this Christmas!

Captain Dumbass over at Us and Them was also an early follower of my blog. The antics of his kids and the way he writes about them is true gold. His wife just had a rough pregnancy but now he is blessed with a third son. God help him! The pregnant belly art was supreme genius and very understanding of the Supreme Leader. Is it okay to use the word supreme twice in the same sentence? I think it is.

Vickie at Oh Shoot Photography has become one of my favorite photo blogs to follow. Her pictures are absolutely stunning.

Lucy at Pictures Just Pictures is another great photographer whose pictures I always look forward to seeing. I am sorry she has kind of been MIA for a while but I hope she will be back to posting all her great shots again soon on a regular basis.


I think that about covers it for the first followers of my blog. Again I want to thank you for spending time with me and commenting when you feel like it. If I missed anybody and you read this post don't hesitate to call me on it. I want to give back by sharing your sites with other readers so they can be as entertained as I am.

Lastly I want to give a shout out to three sites I am an avid reader of but who are not currently followers of mine. They are three of my favorites:

RockandRoll Gourmet she is one hot and hip gourmet cook. I have made some of the meals she has posted and they were all kickass! Give her a look, her writing style combined with subject matter is very refreshing.

The Sassy Curmudgeon oh my God...Una LaMarche is so damn funny it is ridiculous! The post about buckwheat and the lamppost almost made me piss my pants laughing! Go here to read it.

Hyperbole And A Half greatest Paint artist with an overactive brain on the internet! When you read her stuff about Spaghatta Nadle you will roll on the floor...come to think of it everything she does makes me roll on the floor. She has been MIA for a couple weeks but her older posts from earlier this year are fantastic. I warn you now, when you go and read about the Nadle you will be on the site for a while. She is crazy creative.

Okay, this post has gone on way too long and I am finished for today with my giving back.

Thanks again and until next time...