See, I almost said whore. Almost. But a whore expects payment for his services, whereas I give mine up for free.
Here’s the deal. The other day, I learned about Technorati.com on John Scalzi’s The Whatever (linked on the right, if you’re curious). Technorati allows you to find out what other sites are linked to yours. Cool! So that’s how he tracked down my wife’s review.
Anyway, Technorati will put up a link to my blog on their Sci-Fi page as long as I link back to them. So if you just traipsed over here from Technorati, welcome! I’ll write SF for pocket change — I’ll do it for free. Not even a crack whore will do that for you.
Gotta go. Be back real soon.
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For a brief, glorious instant, I topped the charts over at BlogHop, pushing hunky Xavier from his number one spot. I knew it couldn’t last, and I was right.
Some Xavier-loving fanboy has given me an “I hate it!” vote to drop my rating.
Yea, verily, I say unto you: science fiction fans, don’t take this lying down! I don’t want you to counterattack — Xavier has far too many votes for that tactic to be effective. Besides, he’s kind of cute, and if I swung that way I’d spread him on my toast, and from what I’ve read of his blog he’s a good, kind-hearted human being, and far be it from me to suck up to his fans to keep them from nuking me even further because, after all, they’re good, kind-hearted human beings too.
No, I have a simple request. If you haven’t clicked on the green smiley face on the BlogHop icon, please do so. Tell a friend about Shatter and get your friends to vote for me, too. Right now I’m at 91%. Except for that B+ I got in Spanish in 9th grade, and one crummy quarter of organic chem, I’ve never been that low. Save me, my loyal minions. You’re my only hope.
Type A personalities should not be allowed to blog.
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A moment ago, I installed the ‘blog hop’ rating gizmo. It’s over on the right margin, just below the links to other blogs. I clicked randomly on it to see if it worked, and what do I do? I give myself a ‘This blog sucks’ rating. Now my GPA anxiety is kicking in.
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