An Homage

July was the best traffic month for the Dish Xmastime since I finally bought a car September and October 2008, a quarter of the pageviews due to publishing  pretty much the exact same dumb shit as the month before  an email sent to me by an old friend.  8  3.5 million  no, not 8 million, 8  individual people  and Marley  logged onto this page  like it was their toilet  at some point, for a total of close to 11 million pageviews  whatever the hell those are. 20 percent of our traffic came from   squirrelsfisting.com  Facebook and  people who assume any site starting with “X” is porn  social media. Welcome to all the newbies  you know who you are…Tony; big thanks to the loyalty of long-time Dishheads  Xmastime fans, who still can’t be bothered to make me a Wikipedia page but whatevs, like I fucking care, h8rs gon’ h8 . This never gets old for me  like it does every other person who pretends to read this shit so they can say they did when I nag them to read it. Every now and again as an alum of old media  the Harvard on the Appomattox  , I have to pinch myself when I realize that  there are three 7-11s within a mile of my house!!!  3!!!  last month, the eyeball readership of  Xmastime  the Dish was 35 times the circulation of The New Republic  if the circulation of the New Republic was 0  when I edited it in the 1990s. We get so used to  nobody remotely giving a shit  this revolution it's sometimes useful to take a deep breath  of the muffler on a running car through a garden hose  and see just how far we've come  which is nowhere, fuck you very much.