Semi-Charmed Life

Thank You

If you're reading this, thank you.

I have no clue who you are or how you came here. A lot of hits I get are from google image searches of eminem. I posted a picture of him a while back and I guess that pops up on a google image search. A common search phrase that leads to my blog is "Magno Gama," who is one of the instructors at my gym, and "Boo" or "Cutest dog in the world." I guess boo is just that fucking cute.

I'm serious.

Look.

Some other random searches that bring people here:

"will there be a star trek voyager full length movie"

No clue man.

"python mouth guards reviews"

They're pretty dope. Great customer service. I can't recommend Scott enough. My review.

Besides search engines, I have about 10 to 20 people visiting my feeds a day according to CyStats, the wordpress statistics plug-in I use. I have no idea how accurate it is because it seems like every stat engine I use gives me different numbers.

It's pretty cool that 10-20 people have me on their rss feeds because really, I have no idea why anyone would read this blog. Everything's quite mundane and a large majority of the stuff I post is about grappling, which only a small minority of people in the even know about or care about. The other stuff I post is just random rambling.

Blogs are awesome though and more people should blog!

I was on Xanga for 8 years until I decided that although I liked blogging as an outlet, I didn't like the whole weirdness of a social blogging network. I felt compelled to write for an audience and it just didn't seem like a very personal blog anymore. A post or two might have been "featured" in the main page before and I remember it feeling like there was a big blinding spotlight all over me.

But Xanga was great because at the time when it was very popular amongst all my friends, it was cool to read about what they had to say. Facebook is just not the same. I guess it's just that people don't like to write these days. 140 characters is all the attention we can afford to writing or reading.

So thank you to whoever is reading this, because I have no idea how you came here and if you actually subscribe to my feed then you're most likely somebody I know. Because really, why would ANYBODY READ THIS BLOG? Especially a blog about nothing. Although Seinfeld thrived on being a show about nothing so I could be on to something very big.

If you came here via a search for eminem on google images, I hope you at least have the decency to host your own image and not steal my bandwidth by linking to mine.

Thanks!

I have an idea for a contest. If you are a person I do not know who has my blog on your rss feed, leave a comment with your email. I will paypal you 50 cents. I am serious about this but this will only last for the next 24 hours. You have til 12:30am Friday.

Go!

My First Favorite Female Actress

For a long time I've never really had a female actress on my list of favorite actors/actresses. That's not to say that there are no great actresses out there, just that I did not care much for them.

I saw The King's Speech last night and what impressed me the most was Helena Bonham Carter's performance. She did not have too much screen time, and the screen time she did have she did not appear to be as outrageous as some of her past characters, but something about her performance just really impressed me and made me think back to all of her past performances.

She was not glamorously beautiful in the movie and she was not the main character (is she ever?), but right there and then I think she cemented her spot in my list of favorite actresses. She always adds a unique flair to her roles and I think a lot of her performances have an impact on the overall substance of a movie (I have Fight Club and Alice in Wonderland in mind here).

I'm very happy that she won Best Supporting Actress. Her talent deserves to be recognized.