May was my busiest month of the year so far, with about 57,000 hits. Links from Atrios and Crooked Timber helped boost the numbers a bit, but things were pretty steady overall.

Every once in awhile, I look at the referral log numbers that my webhost generates and I see something that I hadn't noticed in the Sitemeter referrals. Sometime in May I got over 200 referrals from this discussion thread on Poe News. The thread is called "ACLU Wants Cross Removed From Cemetery", which seemed odd to me at first when I clicked on it to check it out, since I had no idea what they were talking about. Then it hit me - the original poster had linked to this picture I took in France, which he presumably found via a Google image search. It doesn't have anything to do with whatever he would have been writing about, but it is a nice photo if I do say so myself. Here's the post that goes with the photo, in case you're curious.

Anyway. Thank you as always for visiting. Top referrers and search terms are beneath the fold.

Aggregators, collections, indices, etc
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340:  http://blo.gs/
284:  http://www.bloglines.com

Weblog referrers

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2878:  Atrios


1935:  Daily Kos


875:   Crooked Timber


601:   TAPPED


575:   In the Pink Texas


536:   The Burnt Orange Report


506:   Pink Dome


312:   Dos Centavos


248:   Poe News


223:   Political Animal


167:   Safety for Dummies


163:   Greg's Opinion


127:   Pandagon




Top search terms

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503	diane zamora

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238	kiol

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212	97.5 kiol

169	enron movie

145	baseball and steroids

145	women of enron

140	budweiser real men of genius

136	american idol tryouts

131	kiol houston

124	ugly people

122	off the kuff

114	extreme home makeovers

112	kiol 97.5

101	american idol try outs

93	texas cheerleader

90	schlitterbahn