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03/28/2008: "Sara Sez Thanks For All The Traffic"

Popularity can be a fleeting thing. In today's media-savvy society, bombarded by the Internet and cell phones and all sorts of new ways to communicate, what's hot today can be cool tomorrow - or even this afternoon.

We run a happy little blog here, but we don't kid ourselves into believing that anyone actually reads it. Sure, we have our regulars, but on our best of days we're lucky if 50 people stop by to see what's up. No one will ever confuse the MarlinBlog with, say, Perez Hilton.

But, having an ego just like anyone else, I do check the stats to see how we're doing, so imagine my surprise on Monday when our traffic quadrupled - and then doubled again on Tuesday! I dug a little deeper, and found it was all coming from search engine requests looking for the same thing - Sara Evans. We've talked before about how we get a lot of traffic based on one picture of the country singer we ran nearly two years ago, but why such a bump? A quick Google search of my own brought the answer - she's getting married!

Now, normally, my reaction to attractive women announcing their engagement is something along the lines of jealousy - there's one more girl you won't be getting. But in this case, considering she's a single mother of a whole squadron of kids, and recently gone through a difficult divorce, I feel good for her. Stability can be a good thing, and I'm happy for anyone who can find a little love in their lives.

But, as I said earlier, popularity can be fleeting, and by now our traffic is nearly back down to it's typical trickle. So for those of you who might stumble by, all we can do is say thanks the best way we know how - with a little more Sara as our weekend eye candy ...