After four and a half years of blogging I'm approaching five hundred thousand hits. That's pretty cool. So thanks to those of you who visit this site, especially those of you who are kind enough to check my blog on a regular basis and leave comments.

I rarely think to check my StatCounter account; that's the free service I use to log information about my visitors and the myriad of paths they follow to get to this blog.

When I do think to check with that service I'm always particularly interested in the keywords that have led one search engine or another to point people in my direction.

Here are a few from the most recent entries in my StatCounter log:

• Hot Naked Men
  
  No kidding, that's a search term that somehow lead someone here for a visit. To be precise, they ended up at the page linked here, which is a post about the TV show Cops and an episode I referred to as "The Naked Screaming Drunk Fat Old Man Show."
  
  I'm almost certain that my post did not provide the kind of content that my visitor was looking for.
  
  But now that I've used the phrase Hot Naked Men as a the title of this post (and repeated it throughout the post itself ... Hot Naked Men! Hot Naked Men!) I suppose I can expect more visits from certain kinds of people looking for love in all the wrong places.



• Signs Of The Coming Zombie Apocalypse
  
  Some Googler searched for that phrase and ended up here at SouthCon reading a post with almost that exact phrase for a title.
  
  I can only hope that I was able to somehow adequately help someone prepare for wave after wave of the walking dead.
  
  Because, you know, it's just a matter of time.



• Christine Chubbuck
  
  I get these hits every day. My post about the death of Christine Chubbuck is easily the most popular thing I've ever written.
  
  For a while my post was one of relatively few internet sources of information about Christine Chubbuck. Then the E! cable channel did a feature and now there are a number of sites about her.
  
  E! actually contacted me when they were working on their piece to see if I could provide them with any more information. I couldn't, I'd drawn the facts in my own piece from public sources. But I did point the producer at E! toward the same sources I'd used, and it was apparent to me that they'd been useful in the feature that the cable channel turned out.



• Maddog 20/20
  
  SouthCon is also a source for info on cheap wine.

Those are just a few of the search terms that really stuck out. I can't help but wonder what might be on the rest of the list; the older data that StatCounter doesn't provide.

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