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Weird Ways People Have Found My Blog

Wordle: 101 Things to Do Before You Die
I’m always curious to see what searches led people to my blog, and usually its the obvious ones: “101 things to do before you die” or searches for places I’ve been or things I’ve done like “New Zealand” or “Smuggle Alcohol Onto Cruise Ships.”   The top searches that bring people to my site are:

  • Piercings/Body Piercings/Piercings for Girls/Back Piercings (9,894)
  • 101 Things to Do Before You Die/Things to Do Before You Die (2,482)
  • Police Line Up (177)
  • 100 Things to Do Before You Graduate College (272)
  • Artist Palette (254)
  • White Water Rafting (87)
  • Postsecret Postcards (72)

Apparently I need to write more posts about piercings.  And although these are the overall top ways people have found my blog since the beginning, typically nowadays the way people find me is searching for “skinny dipping,” since that’s the number one search since about July.

It’s the strange searches that make me laugh and think “Why did someone even SEARCH for this!?”  Here’s a list of some of my favorites:

  • Fat Feet
  • How often should I eat Krispy Kreme
  • Jess is drunk and has water in her ear
  • Did my brother eat a koeksister?
  • Beach Fence
  • Did you die?  Did you see swordfish?
  • Tickled Underwater
  • Castles in the United States
  • Cooked Feet
  • Baseball Stadium Spectators
  • Orange Running Skirt
  • Hate Bikram
  • Dogging South Africa
  • Mississippi Pothole

How do people find your blog?  What’s the craziest thing people have searched for to find your blog?

Thing to Do #91: Publish a Cult Website

How do you create a Cult Website?  Luck and an original, creative idea.

You may have heard of PostSecret, but in case you aren’t part of the cool club…PostSecret is an ongoing community art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.  Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) or used for PostSecret’s books or museum exhibits.

The simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed.  No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before.  Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. 

Since its start January 1, 2005, the site has become truly viral with over 1,000 postcards sent in each week, totaling over 300,000 postcards in four years.

Frank spoke at Page Auditorium at Duke University on March 18th and I got the chance to interview him before his show. 

If YOU have a secret, postcards to be sent into PostSecret are addressed to:

Post Secret
13345 Copper Ridge Rd
Germantown, Maryland 20874

I’m getting pretty good page hits on my little blog but I’m not anywhere near “Cult” status yet.  Got any favorite “cult” websites you frequent?


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