What makes a web log interesting? Vignettes? Meditations on ones life and culture? Diverting links? The mundane news? True confessions?

Maybe a little bit of plaque is your friend
Ok, I’m your basic sort of nerdy guy who brushes his teeth only once a day and flosses once every week or two. Compared to my wife, I’m gross. Compared to much of the world, I’m narcissistic. And plus, I mean, here I am talking about my teeth instead of slave trade in the Sudan. Anyway, some people floss everyday, but when I tried it, I didn’t like my life as much. Here’s why. My two top front teeth are pretty average for an American who had braces as a youth. Decent whiteness, no chips, no gap…well, almost. With standard brushing I have no gap, but if I floss, a space opens up close to my gums. When I do this, I don’t have a problem with the gap from an aesthetic perspective, but another problem arises. When I speak, perhaps say “food-fight” or “faux-falafels,” air goes through the gap and occasionally blows bubbles or other embarrassing things. So then I’m wanting to eat a loaf of bread or a banana to get my old teeth back. Some would say that I just need to come to terms with the real characteristics of my teeth and not rely on a bit of plaque for a normal life, but I would suggest that perhaps God made plaque to keep the pride of the likes of me intact.

Referrals
Anyone who runs their own website and is able to log hits is usually fascinated (at least at first) by the ways people find the site. If you are able to track referring pages, which is pretty easy, you can get an idea of who has links to you and what the search engines have in their databases as far as catalogued content related to your site. Just for kicks I thought I’d post a list of the search strings that brought people this direction during the last few weeks. A few of them are complete mysteries to me:

Yahoo: hear seamus heaney reading postscript (sorry, not here)
Yahoo: hare shotten lip (from Precious Bane)
Yahoo: Annie Dillard Found Poems
Yahoo: reading the brothers grimm to jenny
Search: a martian sends a postcard home
Search: song “pb and j video” (sorry, not here…?!)
Google: what does the ending mean in “life of pi”
Google: Louise McMasters Bujold
Google: a poem named heather (?)
Google: Jane Hirshfield in praise of coldness
Google: curiosity “alastair reid” response
Google: gaming violence poetru (poetru?)
Google: Mindbloom einstein photo (sorry, not here)
Google: illustrations in Head Way for the song She’s Leaving Home (what on earth?)
Google: Possession A. A. Byatt book movie comparison
Google: Philip Larkin “The Explosion”
Google: “Strong Bad” mask
Google: “Original Sequence” by “Philip Booth”
Google: Tom Twyker Journal OR Article OR Critique OR Analysis “Run Lola Run”
Google” unusual gas stations colorado (I think my story was about the lack of a gas station in western colorado…)
Google: home star runner
Google: photo of jane hirschfield
Google: Delmore Schwartz poems
Google: Martin Espada rednecks