supplicium post mortem

a visit to the head boy’s study

written, directed, etc. by cdm

In this case LOL stands for Love Our Lurkers, and today is the International Love Our Lurkers Extravaganza, per Bonnie (thanks, Bonnie!). A lurker, in case you’re wondering, is someone who reads but declines to comment. If you’ve been reading Supplicium Post Mortem, or if this is your first visit, why not say hello? Can you imagine a writer who doesn’t want to make the acquaintance of readers? OK, maybe you are imagining an international literary sensation, or a sociopath, but I am neither.

So how about it, all you folks in China, Kansas, Texas, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Yale, the People’s Republic of California, inter alia? All you dear Brits, ye Canadians, and yon fair residents of Gotham—delurk yourselves!

Delurking of course earns points, and kids, what do points make? Points make prizes! (Extra points if that means something to you, lol.)

• 10 points = I’ll post a picture of me in the costume I wind up wearing to next Saturday’s tgi costume party.
• 20 points = I will post a story from the archives (so, if you are a longtime lurker with a title in mind from back in the day, make a request)
• 30 points = well, I can’t imagine there are this many lurkers, but if there are, I’ll write a story as requested by de-lurker #30.

Reading over that list, it doesn’t sound that enticing, I suppose. However, if you know me, you will know I’m not in the market for revealing photographs or excessive real-life information. It seems enough to tell you all my deepest personal secrets instead.

In any case, to readers known and unknown, seen and unseen—hello!

An updated visual of how people get to this blog, other than coming directly on their own. Stats as of 5-2-2009. Thanks wordle for helping me make the spiffy image. Click on the image for bigger. Thanks as well to everyone who links to this blog!

I use the WassUp wordpress plugin to track visitors. Every week or so I manually track visitors using WassUp and Xcel. This is a low-traffic blog. I’m fairly sure it will never be an internet sensation. Here’s a pretty visual of how visitors found me. It includes both referring sources and search terms. I made it on wordle. Click on image for bigger version.