The Bruno Mars Experiment

I was pretty astounded to find out that yesturday's blog post had 244 views. Nothing I have ever written for this blog has had had that much attention.  Even my growing cult classic, A Treatise on Naval Architecture, has only been viewed 209 times, and I think about 50 of those come from one of my nav arch co-workers.

One would think such a development would make me over-joyed.  I've managed to reach to me what is a lot of people, at last this blog might get some ground, I can gain some recognition, and I can actually write what I want to for money and quit writing Hermoine-Snape smut for the Slytherins on Ravelry.

However, I find that I am incredulous.  I can't really believe that I wrote anything that would garner 244 views in a single night (and it is very suspicious that most of the views happened between 11PM and 7AM Eastern Time.  That means either I have a huge following in Russia or there is dirty work afoot!).  I have a couple of different theories:

1.  Something is seriously wrong with Google's track-em-up devices.
2.  A crime syndicate out of Vietnam is cycling my site for some reason.
3.  There is some causality between the fact that my post was entitled "So Bruno Mars wrote 'When I was Your Man' to put his cat to sleep" and the fact that Bruno Mars is so hot right now.  I mean, everything he touches and does is like a beautiful musical equation, so simple and elegant that it makes you question the very nature of your existence.

So I am going to do a little experiment.  Using all my other posts as a control, I am going to put Bruno Mars into the title of this post and see how many hits I get.  If I get my normal 11 hits, then I know it was a fluke.  If I get an enormous amount of hits again then...

Well, at that point all we really know is that I have either arrived as a blogger or people still want to learn more about Bruno Mars (have you just noticed that in two posts promising to talk about Bruno Mars, I haven't really said anything about Bruno Mars at all?).  Or maybe that Vietnamese mafia are still interested in me.  So then I will make a third post but this time leave Bruno Mars out of the title and see how many hits I get.

That final posts, dear friends, will decide my fate.  For if I hit it big again it might be time to monetize and modernize the old blog.  If I don't its going to be time to get the band back together so we can tour some blighted post-industrial American cities in the rust belt and maybe raise the money we need to get the Tarqinio Bakery up and running again.  For I ask you this:  how can bread be bad for you if half of it is just air?