Greetings Loyal Readers,
It has now been three long months since we flipped on the big switch and launched Anandamide. We were so young then. The world seemed a magical place, a garden of opportunity and endless possibility. Well, since that time our hectic pace of 1-2 posts a week has turned us into an embittered, balding shell of a man.
So the time seems right to offer a retrospective. A way to chart all the personal growth (and dare I say….healing) that has taken place. Please believe that this has everything to do with charting growth and nothing to do with the fact that I’m going to be on vacation until July 9th and unsure whether I’ll have access to the internet.
So I got to thinking: what do classic rock DJs do when they need time away (to visit Jim Morrison’s grave or go on a laser Floyd marathon or whatever classic rock DJs do to recharge their batteries thus keeping their shows so relentlessly original)? They run one of those “top 500 songs of all time” in which they replay all of the most popular ROCK tunes of the past few decades. Well, I thought I’d do something a little different. Here, in order, are my six least popular posts of the past three months.
This is in no way a cheap ploy to buy time by trotting out a bunch of old posts that you probably haven’t read. It is a philosophical thing: as I am one of those shifty liberal-types that Ann Coulter and her ilk are always raving about, I feel a pathological need to prop up anything that can’t stand on its own two feet, even if it defies all logic.
So, without further ado, here they are for your comment and consideration: the bottom six posts OF ALL TIME !!!!!
1. The Gospel According to Ray
2. Dear Dave
3. California: A Stately Pleasure Dome
How nice of you to give those disenfranchised posts a chance to shine. They deserve their moment in the spotlight, too, don’t they?
Why six? You should have gone VH1 on us and done a “top 100 countdown”. Then, count them down in an anti-climactic fashion which involves comments from sarcastic and out-of-work E-list comedians.
I’m sorry you might be away for a while, but I can see why you’d go. Posting twice in the same week is enough writing and editing to nearly kill anyone.
Be well and return soon.
enjoy your time at the Pink Floyd Laser Show tour.
Great. I’m here, you’re on vacation. Probably at a drum circle somewhere, damned liberal, protesting something. Have fun, come back recharged. We need your funny, something awful.
What a coincidence: I’m currently writing a list of the Top 500 Sightings of Jim Morrison’s Bulge Through His Black Leather Pants. I should be done compiling it in a few hours…
As for compiling a list of least favorite postings, I wish I could relate! The postings on my blog are so wildly popular that the comments counter bottoms out from all the thousands of responses and reverts back to zero each and every time. At least that’s what I tell myself while crying in my sleep and cutting my arm with a sharp pair of scissors.
I know whatcha meen. I’m too depressed and stressed and overworked to keep up with daily posts o’er at Frying Bacon. SO, instead, I’m having a special guest star take over for July! Look for their posts beginning 7/1!!
Hi All, back in action !!!!
Peace: you of course understand what back-breaking work this blog-biz can be. I asked Kathy Griffin to comment on my stuff, but she wasn’t available, so I’ll be the only comedian on duty (I rate myself somewhere between Q-list and U-list)
GM: Laser Floyd was great. Highlight was, of course, “Careful with that Axe, Eugene”
UF: As usual, you are the model of unremitting graciousness….
Disco: How can you limit yourself to only 500 Morrison cock sightings? Each one is even more special than the last. And put down those goddamn scissors !!!!
BO: If the man upstairs can move Mount Hood into the ocean simply because we ask him to (everyone, go over to Frying Bacon in the Nude to see why Mount Hood will soon be no more), he can surely solve all that is troubling to you. See you back in action soon !!!!
Classic rock DJs smoke a lot of weed and need the extra time to go out onto the loading dock while the long songs and lists play on without them. I may retract this statement after reading your bottom six.
No, I think your statement stands up. I used to listen to the local classic rock station (Toronto’s best rock, Q-107) and think that in particular, the overnight DJ must be taking lengthy huff breaks. How else can you explain the rise of the 20 minute song in the 70s (In-A-Gada-Da-Vida etc.)?
Coincidentally, I was thinking of someone at Q107 when I left that comment.
I suspected as much….is it Kim Mitchell? Or goin’ way back, Joey Vendetta?
Hmm, Joey was there then but I was thinking of another DJ, although they all had their fun from what I could tell.