When Blogging Gods Smile

Here's a little "inside blogger" for you, if you will. Most of us bloggers toil in relative obscurity. We have our regular readers (and we love you for it), but we're not exactly household names among the 30 million or so blogs currently to be found in the blogosphere. Our daily visitors usually run in the low 3 figures, with a mix of both regulars and folks who have stumbled upon us thanks to Google searches and the like.

Every now and then we'll also get an odd link where some entity has chosen to point to our site due to a specific article. Every now and then I show up on the Washington Post blogs after referring to one of their articles and that sends some traffic this way, and recently I found myself linked on Salon.com when someone there decided to point at a post of mine. That yielded a number of hits, and apparently gained me a collection of 3 or 4 lefties who have made it their mission in life to provide me with my daily insult. Such is blogging.

However, once in a great while the blogging gods smile (who are known by many names, such as Glenn, Hugh, Charles, Ed, Michelle, Hindrocket - blogging is a multi-deity religion), and things temporarily go crazy. Such was the case on Tuesday when one of the aforementioned deities (Hugh) smiled on this post. Within 36 hours over 6,000 visitors came to HolyCoast.com to view my handiwork, and for a few brief moments I basked in their reflected glow of the holy ones. My StatCounter graph looks like a Cal Tech seismograph after the Big One. This must be what blogger heaven will be like.

Sadly, the blessings of the blogger gods are short-lived, and things are already calming down. Hopefully some of those folks who stopped by here in the past two days will come back again in the future, but for now, it's back to obscurity. Ah, it was fun while it lasted.