When blog founder VThunderlad launched our parent site, Los Thunderlads, on 1 July 2007, he created a sample page called "A Snake Snack." This page consisted of a picture showing some snake meat being stir-fried and an explanation of what a "page" is in terms of Wordpress.com. "A Snake Snack" attracted a grand total of 31 pageviews in 2007 and 7 pageviews in 2008. So even on days when a significant amount of traffic came through the blog, no one was likely to look at "A Snake Snack." A week or so ago, it suddenly drew several hundred hits. For some reason it had been the top result on the Google image search for "snake" for a while.
A post of mine reviewing the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's latest CD release also got a lot of views, but I can explain that. Al Wood mentioned it on his magnificent site Ukulele Hunt. Ukulele Hunt is one of the great things on the www, and I'm proud to say that Al sometimes reads and comments on Los Thunderlads.
Blog cofounder Le Falcon has scanned and posted a number of original comic strips. Among these is a series of political strips called "USA: CRAZYWORLD!" If you like the title, you'll like the strip. Even if you don't like the title, you may find something to like about the strip. Le Falcon has posted three installments so far (here, here, and here.) He also scanned and posted a little comic book he and I created in the summer of 1989. It's called The Adventures of Standard Man, and its cover declares "At last! A superhero derived from the concepts of Irving Babbitt." I was intensely interested in Babbitt's works and those of his school in 1989; I still am influenced by them, as a look at the category labeled "Irving Babbitt" on Los Thunderlads will show. In those days, I persuaded Le Falcon to read Babbitt's Literature and the American College; he was enthusiastic about it, and from that shared enthusiasm sprang Standard Man. When we'd finished the comic book, we sent a copy of it to Babbitt scholars Stephen C. Brennan and Stephen R. Yarbrough; they never got back to us. Le Falcon has exchanged emails with me and VThunderlad in which he's mentioned the idea of a comic strip about emails he's exchanged with me and VThunderlad. It sounds like exactly the kind of thing that catches on when people put it online, and I'm hoping he does it.
Thunderlass Cymast has been uncharacteristically silent for the last couple of months; she tells me that may soon change. We hope so! The recent spike in views for "A Snack Snake" piqued VThunderlad's interest in the workings of Google; but he rarely posts on Los Thunderlads, and I doubt that will change anytime soon. Believer1, a.k.a. Mrs Acilius, is extremely busy with grad school, so it would be a surprise (a pleasant one of course!) if she were to post soon.
