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What people are looking for on banane.com

I love reading the metrics reports on this site. I always have. I had a high on 11/10: 141 pages loaded, 45 unique visitors, and 5 returns.

One random post about nude ladies in my gym locker room is the result of a query “Nude+ Gym” … and is the result of a search about once a day.

My name– banane– means “don’t care” in Turkish- bana ne (bana, nay) (“Welcome Turkish Visitors!”). One guy really, really wants to get this email address: sanane-at-banane.com, which, I’ve been told by Turkish speakers, means I don’t give a f**k at I don’t care.com. Clever? Hmmm…

This morning, strangely, I got a ping today from someone’s search of a good friend of mine, Wyatt McDill, who is a very talented filmmaker in Minneapolis. My post just includes his photo, no bio info.

I get a bunch of queries for “Chinese Movie”- proving my friend Jen right when she said, don’t just name it Jiu Jin Shan (San Francisco in Mandarin) but something more accessible, like, oh, “Chinese Movie” haha.

Recently, a small paragraph I wrote on SF scam artist Eleanor Lindquist has come up in a few searches. She’s quite a work of art- and I’m glad some folks are finding out about her.

My article on Sarcasm also gets quite a few hits- I should add the popular plug-in on this blog so that it’s all automatically posted to the side bar (which, I know, I have to clean up).

The all time winner, sadly, is a post I wrote after hearing about my friend’s death: Andrew Martinez’ memorial. I really didn’t post to ride on his fame, I was doing that cathartic writing thing. The massive media attention was disconcerting at his memorial last weekend, mostly beacause of the news cameras that were there- they’re really bright and white and annoying. Also that lots of people showed up who didn’t know Andrew but admired his activism.

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