I've been getting a lot of hits on the pizza-bomb guy. Depending on the search phrases I rank from 1 to 5 on Google, Yahoo, etc.
It seems that everyone's looking for pictures. Well, I did link to the CNN site, which has the FBI-released pictures of the collar and the locking device, but I sense that people are looking for darker stuff; either the actual explosion or autopsy photos.
Sorry to disappoint -- but, hey, I'll take traffic anyway I can get it. And sometimes you'll get someone coming in on a search and sticking around to read three or four pages, and occasionally a new regular out of it.
It's a crapshoot.
Back in January I was the first person (At least as far as I know. I've haven't seen an earlier reference than mine), to blog the "Going to war without the French is like going deerhunting without an accordion player" quote.
It was from Jed Babbin on CBC's The National (he also used it on Chris Matthews' Hardball the same night), and I thought -- now that's funny, and sent it up to the blog a couple of minutes later and promptly forgot about it.
About a week later my hit counter started lighting up, and it continued at a good pace for the next month. I probably killed a good many false attributions to the likes of Ross Perot and Norman Schwarzkopf.
It's here if'n you don't believe me. You might want to also take a look at the two quotations below.
If you think that George Bush is an inarticulate boob, you should see what Canadians have been stuck with for the last 11 years.
And no, he's not much better in French.