I know, it’s February, not December. Putting together a year in
review post seems out of place.
But not in a Just Plain Stupid world.
My first post for JPS was February 28th 2013. There are
now over 300 posts on this blog, and I, for one, am surprised. I
never thought I had so much to say, even if most of it was useless
dribble.
This Year’s Failures
The dribble has flowed slower this year, and so I began the immensely
unpopular serialization of Dirk Destroyer’s Less Destructive
Brother. S.B. and someone I don’t know from Russia faithfully read
each post of Dirk, so it hobbles along. If you’re off your meds
and wish to start reading this Donald Trump-less political satire set
in a world inundated by sheep, here’s a link to the firstinstallment, and better yet, here’s a link to the firstinstallment that has anything to do with the story.
Several posts other than Dirk Destroyer have failed to attract
attention this year; many because they didn’t deserve any, but a
few I thought were worth reading. Tricycle Baskets Full of Evil
falls in that latter category, along with Apply Yourself, and the
not-yet-immortal story of Mortimer the Drop of Goo.
This Year’s Successes???
Picture posts – those stolen from FB, or taken from tee shirts or
catalogs have always been among my more popular subjects, along with
guest posts from other Go Figure Reads writers.
So I should just shut up and plagiarize?
Particularly surprising was the popularity of Will Wright’s rant
about his bad cruise on Royal Caribbean, but less surprising was
Walter Bego’s lionization of the art of Terry Gilliam.
Unfortunately for my more faithful readers, I remain incapable to
taking a hint. I continue to write a few posts with a minimum of
plagiarism, and some of them have done well (if sickening large
numbers of people can be defined as doing well.)
Gloves vs. Mittens preyed on the public’s fascination with
celebrity, and I exploited my brother’s secrets in the post,
Horatio.
Clearly, many of my readers would prefer Horatio to be the Hauser
that writes this blog.
The top post of this third year, Body Part Insults (written with
assistance by Kim Webb,) was based on an ill-advised Facebook post of
a Grammy award nominated FB friend who probably wishes now that A)
she hadn’t posted her desire to not insult our noble excretory
system when addressing jerks, and (especially) B) that she hadn’t
clicked ‘accept’ to my friend request.
But even Body Parts can’t hold a candle to the most popular post of
the life of this blog, Basketball, BWG, but no Little Debbie Twinkie,
which I wrote very early on in the first year.
So much for showing progress.
I’d like to thank you each personally for reading my blog, but I
don’t want to risk the ensuing storm of rotten vegetation (or
worse.) As we limp into year Four there’s always the hope that
somewhere along the line I’ll learn to write good stuff.
Or at least learn to shut up and plagiarize.
So for the video I looked up Best of 2015 on youtube and got this. These are toys, right?
