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Know your audience…

Just so you know… I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, perhaps one fry short of a Happy Meal, and to quote a “friend” drunk-seriously looking me in the eye, “somewhere there’s a village missing its idiot“…

but… after 10+ years of consistent weekly writing, I know a little bit about you and my other readers on this voyage of self-discovery aka blog writing.

No, I haven’t been snooping in your windows at night… and I really don’t have the foggiest notion of what you look like naked… and I really really don’t want you to know what I look like naked… this isn’t supposed to be a horror blog site.

However… drawing from my former science-based career, I can surmise a reasonable sense of those things I talk about that resonate with many of you, and others that smack head on, like some crash-test dummy, into a brick wall of indifference.

With some tools provided me by this blog-hosting site (WORDPRESS), each day I can see which country my readers live in, and a basic count of the numbers of visitors… that’s it… no reveal of your hometown/city, your identity, gender, age, or whether you dye your hair blue or green.

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Fortunately for me, my livelihood today, unlike many others who do this, is not in any way dependent on drawing you into my blog-writing world consistently so that I can extract money from your pockets, or those of advertisers who would like to extract dinero from you.

Which means, I choose to write about those things each week that strike a chord (musically, or otherwise) or arouse my curiosity for a minute or two… SQUIRREL!!

This is why, just like you, I’m all over the place in topic choices and themes, week to week. The only difference perhaps, is that I sit down and pound it out on a keyboard, like it’s a religion (the new Atheist denomination?)

Now where was I?

Ah yes… my knowledge of you and the things that interest you.

I can’t read your mind, but there are some themes that catch a fair number of eyeballs.

Here’s a brief list of those things I write about that gather the most interest over time:

  1. The rising prominence and power of women. Those posts where I discuss and promote the desirability of women vs men in positions of political power are my number 1 draw. Just this week, soon-to-retire US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waxed on about the outsized gains of women in the US House and Senate during her 20 years of leadership. This trend is a global one, and not a mere outlier blip. This is the direction of our future world, and it can’t come soon enough, alongside enhanced worldwide opportunities for women’s education (although we have to be very careful to not leave men in the dust to avoid toxic animosity).
  2. Anything that is sexually-related. No surprise here folks, we almost all feel a magnet when it comes to the world of sexuality. As an aside, I’m perpetually intrigued and in some ways, disgusted, that our TV and movie screens are replete with graphic scenes of violence, murder, rape, war… and yet… (preferably) loving scenes of sexual encounters are largely hidden away. From a blogger’s perspective, I know, without doubt, that if I include the word sex, or anything that infers a sexual theme in the title… BOOM! Readers!! No, it’s not because my writing content is so titillating, or evocative, or mind-bending… it’s the search engines (eg GOOGLE) where folks are actively seeking out anything that takes them down the rabbit hole of sex and sexuality. Sex is the lazy person’s way to bring eyeballs to their internet world. Sex sells, they say. Hell, YES!
  3. GOD and Religion. It’s no secret that I am a non-believer in a deity. However, I can’t possibly know with 100% knowledge of whether I am correct in this belief, just as I know that no one else knows the “truth” either. And so, I write about this, fairly often actually, in what I hope comes across as a viewpoint of tolerance. I know and respect that we all have deeply held internal beliefs that guide us through our lives. IMPORTANTLY, so long as we hurt no one with our belief system, I’m all for it. Free choice (with hefty spoonsful of tolerance and open-mindedness) can cover a lot of ground.

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That’s it… this blogger’s trinity.

Of course, my mind wanders madly off in all directions, so my view of the trinity is often, like the fata morgana… illusory, and far in the distance.

No need to worry my friends… I may know you a wee bit, but as for seeing you naked… I learned my lesson at 9 years old when I blew away my dollar on x-ray glasses from a comic book so I could “see” my Grade 3 teacher better.

SUCH a disappointment… see, sex sells!