I did my best to work out the baffling plot point that Helen Moss, longtime teacher at Santa Rosa Community College, had to leave after her onetime crush Ian Cameron told her to stop being a jerk to his wife. I’m still not confident I have the reason clear, but I offered what I had. And people wanted to know! As I look over what the most popular June 2022-dated postings were here, the last month, my Mary Worth plot recap tops the list. Here’s the five most popular new articles from June:
- What’s Going On In Mary Worth? Why did Helen Moss have to leave? April – June 2022
- Popeye Now Being Drawn By Someone Younger Than Popeye
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Why does The Phantom have an Eden? April – June 2022
- Judge Parker and The Phantom look odd because Mike Manley isn’t drawing them
- Also Here’s One of My Dumber Giggles for the Week
Mind, the most popular thing I had of the entire month was an October 2020 post where I admitted finally getting this one Far Side. People always like hearing when someone else was baffled by a comic strip. It’s one of Gary Larson’s many gifts to us all. Anyway my favorite of the last month remains the resolve to eat Cheese Idaho.
Still, the comic strip talk is always going to be my most popular thing here. Were I to shut down the rest of the blog, that’s the part that would go last. So here’s my plan for what to talk about this coming month, and when:
- Terry Beatty’s Rex Morgan, M.D. (5 July)
- Neal Rubin and Rod Whigham’s Gil Thorp (12 July)
- Francesco Marciuliano and Mike Manley’s Judge Parker (19 July)
- Jonathan Lemon and Joey Alison Sayers’s Alley Oop (26 July)
- Tony DePaul and Mike Manley’s The Phantom (Weekdays) (33 July)
Meanwhile, I still like to keep track of how popular my slightly popular blog is, and how that’s changing. And I share that because somehow that’s usually a well-liked feature too. In June 2022, according to WordPress, I had 4,732 page views here, which is below the running mean of 5,034.2 views for the twelve months leading up to June. It’s above the running median of 4,449 page views, though. These came from 2,742 unique visitors, which is above both the running mean of 2,696.7 and running median of 2,547.5. So, hey, more visitors, all of whom get tired of me faster! That’s a something.
There were 143 likes given to anything at all over the course of June, which is a little below both the running mean of 153.3 and median of 154.5. And there were 40 comments, which seems like more than I remember, but is below the mean of 56.7 and median of 53, again both of which seem like more than I remember. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.
There were 82 countries, our country-like entities, to send me any page views in June. That’s up from May’s figure of 75, if you like. 16 of them sent only a single page view, down from May’s 17. None of these countries was Greenland. I know, I’m feeling it too. Here’s what countries it was:
| Country | Readers |
|---|---|
| United States | 3,336 |
| India | 219 |
| Australia | 169 |
| United Kingdom | 168 |
| Canada | 146 |
| Brazil | 68 |
| Italy | 54 |
| Germany | 42 |
| El Salvador | 35 |
| Sweden | 34 |
| Philippines | 30 |
| Spain | 27 |
| Netherlands | 17 |
| Nigeria | 17 |
| Romania | 17 |
| Serbia | 17 |
| France | 16 |
| Ireland | 16 |
| Japan | 16 |
| Mexico | 16 |
| Finland | 14 |
| Thailand | 14 |
| South Africa | 13 |
| Norway | 11 |
| Vietnam | 11 |
| Croatia | 10 |
| Kenya | 10 |
| Malaysia | 10 |
| Singapore | 10 |
| Czech Republic | 9 |
| Denmark | 8 |
| Colombia | 7 |
| Austria | 6 |
| New Zealand | 6 |
| Poland | 6 |
| Taiwan | 6 |
| Chile | 5 |
| Ecuador | 5 |
| European Union | 5 |
| Hungary | 5 |
| Pakistan | 5 |
| Peru | 5 |
| Switzerland | 5 |
| Turkey | 5 |
| Albania | 4 |
| Bahamas | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 4 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| Egypt | 4 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 3 |
| Iraq | 3 |
| Israel | 3 |
| Jamaica | 3 |
| Russia | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 |
| American Samoa | 2 |
| Costa Rica | 2 |
| Estonia | 2 |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 2 |
| Jordan | 2 |
| Lebanon | 2 |
| Panama | 2 |
| Portugal | 2 |
| Anguilla | 1 |
| Argentina | 1 |
| Belarus | 1 |
| Bolivia | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 1 |
| Greece | 1 |
| Guam | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 (**) |
| Kuwait | 1 (*) |
| Montenegro | 1 (**) |
| Puerto Rico | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 1 |
| Tunisia | 1 |
| Uruguay | 1 |
Kazakhstan has been a single-view country for three months running now, even though I’d think Kazakhstan has other things to do than check in on my a very slight bit. Kuwait’s been a single-view country two months in a row now, although I guess maybe they have fewer things to do? Montenegro is also on its third month giving me a single view per month. I don’t know how to much to expect they have to do.
WordPress figures I posted 18,738 words in June, my most talkative month this year. It’s an average 624.6 words per posting, and brings my average for the year up to 564 words per post. This may be too many words. It brings me to 102,147 words for the year 2022, so far. Between the Broadway debut of the musical 1776 and the start of July, I’ve posted 3,437 things to this blog. They’ve attracted a total of something like 302,932 views from 171,984 visitors.
If you’d like to read these posts regularly, I’m flattered. The best route is probably to add the RSS feed for my essays to your reader. If you don’t have a reader, but you do have a WordPress account, you can click the “Follow Another Blog, Meanwhile” button on the upper right corner of this page. If you don’t have a WordPress account, you can use the box beneath that to get posts e-mailed to you the moment they’re published and before I’ve corrected some embarrassing typos. And if none of that works for you, eh, I suppose you know your business. Carry on with what seems reasonable. Thank you.
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