i did a post back in January called, "I hate dentists".
Yesterday someone named "Florence" from Riverside Cosmetic Dentists (I assume that's Riverside, California) left on comment on the blog post:
riverside cosmetic dentist said...
So interesting ha?! why all of the patient feel so scared?
by: florence
Dentist-type people are funny.
My latest full-length play is a dark dramedy and the name of it - along with a synopsis - will be revealed for the first time on PASSION = TRUTH later this summer, along with a promotional short film that will be shot before the end of June. Stay tuned.
A "Courtney" is now "following" PASSION = TRUTH. But I have no way of getting ahold of her and thanking her for following this blog. I'm acquainted with a "Courtnee" - whom I emailed within the last week...
"Courtney"? Wherever you are, email me at jeffbumbershoot43@gmail.com so I can thank you personally. Please?
Not closing down PASSION = TRUTH. Not joining the Border Patrol. Same shit, different day.
It was 2 days ago. Knew it was coming up but it sneaked by. Oh, well...here are The Beatles singing "Happy Birthday"...to...my blog, I guess.
...as of today. Not bad in almost two years (as of March 2009). At least I think they've satisfied. :)
Ed Cotter directed me in two different productions of the musical, Blood Brothers here in California. Interestingly, the word is that Ed mentioned to someone recently that the loss of his wife, De, in 2007 had been weighing heavily on his heart. They had been married for over 60 years, I think, and inseparable. He told this person he wanted to be with his wife on Valentine's Day.
Seriously. And it cost me nothing. Hey, it's a start, man.
8,325 visits with almost 10,000 page views. That's a big leap from January 2008 - where I had 982 visits and 1,678 page views. HUGE jump. January was an all-time record as well, topping the previous high mark of 5,641 visits in December 2008. And already 3 days into February, we've had as many visitors as all of February 2008.
Keep reading...and bookmark PASSION = TRUTH!
If you've been an infrequent visitor to Passion = Truth, don't take my word for what you're missing. Look at my numbers.
Since March 2008, the surge in visitors to this blog has grown exponentially - sometimes 5, 6, 7 times what it was that same month the previous year. Today, January 21, 2009, we're already 6x readership compared to January 2008.
Get on board NOW! Bookmark Passion = Truth. You don't have to read every post. Hey, this thing's been running since March 2007 - I'm sure there are plenty of interests you have that I've covered in some way or another. There's an alphabetical listing by topic on the right panel toward the bottom. Peruse it and pick out a subject that catches your fancy. You can even email the story to others OR post it on Facebook or Myspace.
Don't be left out. Passion = Truth tells it like it is. With Passion...and Truth.
(Made up that last part myself. Whoooo!)
Carl Wilson Cancer Foundation shindig at The Roxy in West Hollywood.
"Lacy Underalls" from "Caddyshack".
"Valkryie".
"Alice" in the "Don't Come Around Here No More" video by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
The slings and arrows suffered by Brett Favre.
Lowen & Navarro at The Mint in Hollywood.
Mary Hopkin - first artist signed to The Beatles' Apple Records.
Toilet Bowl End-of-the-Year Awards/NFL.
December 2008 had around 5,506 visits (yellow)- the most of any month since I started PASSION = TRUTH in March 2007 (10x what it was in December 2007) and PASSION = TRUTH has had a consistent significant increase in readership since March 2008 - including the amount of page views (orange). This is important as it's a direct reflection oF how long readers stay on a particular blog. And as I've always stated about blog posts, it's not the quantity that counts, but December had the 2nd most blog posts (next to July 2008) all-time - 109.
PASSION = TRUTH has also become a blog of commerce...somewhat. I now have an Amazon banner so you can peruse this site AND make book and music purchases easily. I also negotiated a few nice barters - blog URL listings in exchange for merchandise or my blog listing on another site. Finally, I added the FOLLOWER feature so if you'd like to become a regular visitor of PASSION = TRUTH, you can sign up and get regular blog updates as they happen.
Onward and upward, as they say, for PASSION = TRUTH!
A useless factoid to you (is "factoids" a word)? Just like to keep my readers in-the-know. July was my most active month - 111 posts. I don't create all the news out there; I just rant about it. Since January my readership numbers have been increasing 2, 3 and 4-fold - August is already 5x what is was last year and we're not even half-way through the month.
Keep reading - and comment. Come on...I KNOW you have something you wanna get off your chest.
(reprinted from Tuesdays)
don't i know you?
interesting when two friends meet...i went to waterford union high school with blogger jeff ircink (passion=truth) who now lives in LA and works as an actor, playwright, and...what else is it you do jeff? jeff's a published playwright (and a good one) who in his spare time fishes, smokes cigars, and has a major man-crush on brett favre. (yes, straight men can have crushes on other straight men without thinking about penis.)
i've worked in milwaukee theater with blogger jonathan west (artsy schmartsy) many, many times, and i actually just saw him in a wonderful production of tally's folly at milwaukee chamber theater. over the years, jon's been an actor, a director, a writer, run a theater company of his own...and i'm sure there's more. these days, he's also a devoted father and spouse.
two days ago, jeff and i had a delightful phone conversation about the recent brett favre "i'm retired -- no i'm not!" debacle, easily summed up in two lines:
tony: "it makes that weepy news conference seem like bullshit."
jeff: "he changed his mind, it happens all the time."
this morning, i realized these two (jeff and jonathan) "old" friends were already having this conversation...
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I have the remedial (meaning it's the barebones free one) blog counter that keeps stats on who's visiting your blog, location, which pages they've viewed, how long they visit, etc. It keeps stats for one year.
For the month of June 2007 I had 476 total visitors. Remember, I started the blog sometime in April 2007. Yesterday's count for the month of June 2008 was 2798.
I think that's pretty cool - a 5-fold increase in visitors in one year. So, if you take a gander once in a while, perhaps you should visit more often. Feel free to leave a comment on a particular post OR send me an email at irc_64@hotmail.com or weakknees@gbpackersfan.com. And thanks for stopping by.
Not really.
But I happened upon Martha's website because she had recently posted a picture of herself with Paul Newman (who I do like) and I wanted to take a look. On the left panel of Martha's blog - which can be found within her website - there's a category, "Blogs I Like" - much like the "Cool Sites for Your Pleasure" category I have on the right panel of my this blog.
Every blog Martha lists - save one - are HER blogs. At least, they're all under the umbrella of "blogs.marthastewart.com", with contributing posts from a variety of people who might know her or they have password to post...whatever.
Anyway, I just thought it was funny that there were no other blogs Martha "liked" save her own. She obviously hasn't perused PASSION = TRUTH now, has she?
I'm ambivalent towards Martha. I was satisfied she did time for her crime and that's sorta it. When she was placed under house arrest for five months and had to wear an ankle bracelet, she said something that left me dumbfounded.
While serving time in prison she said, "But like everyone else here," she wrote, "I would rather be doing all of this in my own home, and not here -- away from family and friends." Then when she was sent to her home to serve the remaining five months, she said something along the lines of 'being confined in my home wearing this ankle bracelet is hideous - in some ways prison was much better". (I'm paraphrasing). Really? I mean, I know she bitched about the ankle bracelet hurting, but prison was better than being in your own home - with privacy? Never understood that.
Since I started this blog in March 2007, I've had just over 8300 visitors from over 60 countries - not the greatest numbers, but respectable. I've talked to several blogging experts who are confident they can show me how to increase my traffic, so we'll see where I wanna go with this thing.
March 2008 was my highest blogging month with 93 posts. And through April 24, 2008, I've already posted 265 posts in 2008 - I posted 253 in all of 2007.
What does this prove? Nothing - they're just numbers.
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