A long, long, long, long time ago, a very young FLOG™ got all excited about getting one reader from Belgium. I commited, very briefly, to making periodic Belgium-related posts in an effort to reach out to this demographic. Either I or Belgium was too fickle for the arrangement, and I soon moved on to developing a good relationship with my two Australian readers. That didn't last, either; both "features" have gone the way of the Esoteric Distinction. You just can't tie me down!
Anyway, all of this cultivation of my Belgian and Australian readership has gotten me nowhere. And in the meantime, by paying absolutely no attention to it whatsoever, I've built quite a healthy following in Brazil. No really, look: here for New FLOG™, and here for the Old. Brazil accounts for 3% of my readership. And this is not just one crazy little fella out in Fonte Boa who visits my site twice a day. I get hits from 4 or 5 different Brazilian ISP's.
I can't explain this. Unlike Japan, the UK, the Middle East, and mainland Europe, I don't know anyone in Brazil, or anyone who knows anyone in Brazil, at least as far as I know. (There are known knowns, and there are known unknowns...) All I know is, whatever I'm doing here has struck a nerve in Brazil. That, or "FLOG" means something really naughty in Portuguese. Whatever it is, I assure my Brazilian fans of this: I will continue to pay zero attention to your country's affairs, because I can see that's the way you like it.
Posted by FLOG at April 24, 2004 4:33 AM | TrackBackI know someone from Brazil, who is often in Brazil -- my old neighbor Bernardo Teixeira, aka Beno. But I don't think it's him, because Brazil makes up less than 0.2% of traffic at the Prophet. Anyway, what matters is: you are wrong!
FLOG RESPONDS:
No, I'm not wrong. I said "as far as I know." I didn't know that I knew someone who knew someone who was in Brazil. Haven't you learned anything from Rumsfeld about the things we don't know we know?
Posted by: WWB at April 26, 2004 4:35 AMIt could be all of my Brazilian relatives. Maybe through some ridiculously weird circumstances they found FLOG through Wazeth. No seriously, I really do have Brazilian relatives.
FLOG RESPONDS:
How the fuck can a Japanese American can have Brazilian relatives? Get the fuck outta here with that!
Posted by: Sho at April 26, 2004 7:52 AMMy aunt's house practically has a revolving door for Brazillian exchange students. Maybe it's them. Yeah, gotta be them.
FLOG RESPONDS:
Is she doing this for the sex?
Posted by: Blog at April 27, 2004 10:00 AMDid Movable Type deem you not worthy enough to comment on your own page again?
Posted by: phooeyhoo at April 27, 2004 10:16 AMYes.
Posted by: FLOG™ at April 28, 2004 11:19 AMIt's awfully capricious about the whole thing, as you can see.
Posted by: FLOG™ at April 28, 2004 11:19 AMThis is my third straight comment in under a minute, whereas before it wouldn't let me comment for the first time in two days.
Posted by: FLOG™ at April 28, 2004 11:20 AMThis is now my fourth. What gives?
Posted by: FLOG™ at April 28, 2004 11:21 AMFor sex? Possibly. I don't want to know.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure your blog hates me. Maybe it's because I stood up the vadge badge.
Posted by: Blog at April 28, 2004 11:55 AMI think it hates you and Brandon. I've always been able to comment with impunity.
Posted by: phooeyhoo at April 28, 2004 12:52 PMYo, Dan...
Long time no see/hear. I fully understand one- message relationships from exotic places. For instance, there was an amazing comedy in this year's PIFF ("Margarette's Feast") from Brazil. It's silent, in B & W, an artful throwback to Chaplin, Keaton, etc - but with a delightful music soundtrack. The star is a wildly funny fellow named Hique Gomez. Physically, he's a cross between Rowan Atkinson and Raffi. He does music, dance and physical comedy. The few reviews of the film I could find were entirely perfunctory, tended to be clones of one another, and said nothing about him. Through persistent effort, I found his website, all done up in Portuguese, of course. Undaunted - and with a little imagination, prayer and some chutzpah - I "freely translated" enough information to write about this comic treasure. Two months later I get an e-mail from Hique Gomez, saying - in perfect English - how flattered he was by my review and asking permission to post it on his website. I immediately replied in a manner fraught with sufficient hooks, so I thought, to weasel a reply. Oh, boy! The start of a cross cultural film dialog, perhaps. Nothing doing. Nada. In a virtual world, it's often easy come, easy go, and at time warp speed.
Your new BLOG format is superb!
The Father
Posted by: The Father at May 8, 2004 3:55 AM