Chasing the Wind

Why do people come to Chasing the Wind? What answers are they seeking? What pheromone drives them buggy? What carrot moves their donkey?

The first answer is simple – apparently, I’m a virtual babe magnet. I’m attracting women bloggers like buttered toast attracts cats. I dunno why, though I suspect it’s the pretty colors. So subdued, it’s like getting a massage for your eyes after visiting other stark black-n-white or aggressively multicolored websites. Perhaps it’s the fact that not *once* have I discussed automobile repair on this manly site (well, I did once mention automobile transmissions, but just in passing, not in a tool-guy sort of way, so that doesn’t count.) Perhaps it’s because my dog protects me from farts.

It can’t be that single-guy-raising-a-kid-by-himself thing. That’s too cliche, like a bad Ben Affleck movie. Whatever it is, most of the first visitors to this site were women. Friends and family may be shocked to learn that I’m happily cross-linking to several women simultaneously. Hello to Uptown Girl (my first!), Lisa, Beth, Courtney, HunnyB, Rachel (who hasn’t technically linked me, though she did email me today) and especially the talented Miss Vox who was kind enough to send me some chocolate today.

The other way I can find out why visitors are coming here is that – surprise! Most people don’t know that most websites are able to get the results of your search engine query. So I know *exactly* what phrase people searched for before ending up here. Here are this week’s winners:

• “Chasing the Wind Movie”  I’m a movie? I had no idea… ah, I *am* a movie, and I’m all about storm chasing and tornadoes, and I originally aired on PBS. I never knew that.
• “Kingdom of Loathing”  That’s one funny game, but I’m a dead-end if you’re looking for information on it. I’m currently playing a Pastamancer: With his mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a force to be reckoned with. He relies on his Magicalness to get ahead in the world.
  
• “lonely man suspensory”  Besides being a pastamancer, I’m the official repository of Spam Poetry.
• “Star Trek Enterprise”  Pastamancer from Spaaaaace! no, seriously, this it the one tv show I watch. I’m only vaguely aware that there are other tv shows, like American Idol and Survivor. But they don’t have season finales that include Alien Nazis in San Francisco like Star Trek: Enterprise did. Really. I’m not kidding.
• “Backgroung music and blogs”  Haha, some dufus misspelled “background” as “backgroung”. Hahaha, what a loozer…. oh wait, I did too. Dang it.

So tell me – why are you visiting “Chasing the Wind?”