DAY-UMMM! Yesterday’s Eyrie offering, Grim fairy tale, has, according to the regular 24-hour-statistics email from Substack, simply obliterated all previous records with an astounding 744 views! Usually it runs around 250-300 hits before topping out at maybe 350 or thereabouts. Got no idea what it might have been, but I must’ve done something right with this one. A crap-ton of new free subscribers came in over the transom yestiddy and today as well. So I got that going for me, as Bill Murray once said.
Great movie, great character, great line. Seen that flick so many times I can recite pretty much the whole script from memory at this point, line by line by line. I assure you all that I am in no way joking or stretching the truth here; stand still for long enough and I’m just liable to prove it to ya, in fact.
Update! Ahhh, I believe I just found the explanation for the sudden Eyrie influx: WRSA kindly threw me a little linky-love. Thanks so much to my good friend CA for the boost.
Updated update! Don’t believe me? Get a load of this screen-grab from said Substack e-mail missive, then.
Hey, I freely admit it, I find this pretty darned exciting.
Update to the updated update! Just for shits and giggles I moseyed over to my Substack CP to see what we’re up to now, if only for curiosity’s sake and nothing else: 825 views as of right this very minute. Apparently, dem WRSA links are the gift that just keeps on giving. Thanks again, CA!
Updates, forsooth! Now this is kinda curious:
Only 7% from WRSA? That can’t possibly be right. No way did such a huge uptick in hits derive from the same-old same-old ratio; the above traffic-source percentages are in line with what they normally are. Makes no sense to me, it’s too weird. Oh well, heck with it. It’s late, I’m tired, and ain’t up to researching this seeming anomaly further tonight.
I was a caddy all through my teens and right until I graduated college. At least one, and probably more, of the writers for that movie had to have been caddies themselves.
I even won the Caddy Scholarship although winning the “Caddy Tournament” wasn’t part of the deal.