Yes, I’m being facetious. But as everyone seems to do 10 Top Posts at the year’s end this is mine — delayed due to the rush of finishing Jekyll and Hyde.
The overwhelming number of visitors arrive on my home page and read the latest posts. For people who go to specific posts, my Hellboy Chronology remains far and away top dog. My 2023 post about Taylor Swift conspiracy theories is the second biggest thing I’ve ever posted and it’s maybe 1/6th.
I’ve fallen behind in keeping up the chronology — part of the general slowdown in reading I mentioned recently — but I’m working on rectifying that.
My post about Mona Awad’s All’s Well has persistently been a top performer, coming in second to Hellboy this year. I’ve no idea why — I suspect it may be people searching for the Shakespeare play coming on it by mistake.
A post about a book on Tucson red-light districts scores surprisingly high too.
It’s easy to understand why a post about right-wing dictatorship advocate Curtis Yarvin would get attention. And it did.
Next came my About Me page, then my post about the genesis of the Hulk, and how truthful Stan Lee’s account is (or isn’t). Again, an easy one to understand — early Marvel Comics is a popular nerdy topic.
My Sherlock Holmes quote posts often get good hits and this one did the best.
I don’t know if misogynist rape-apologist Warren Farrell has been in the news lately but my post about his Myth of Male Power got enough hits to come in at #9.
And finally, a post about David Halberstam’s book The Fifties.
That’s a random mix and I draw no conclusions from it. But there it is anyway.
