The only thing external I get out of this blog are comments. Think of them as a tip.
Agree with me. Disagree with me. Jeez, find Ephraim and tell him to come back. Anything.
Or shall I just assume my service has been poor and you don’t think this blog is worth the occasional comment?
In response to the blantant fishing for compliments…….You know I love your blog. As the official Niece of NewMexiKen, I hope that you know I read your blog faithfully. In fact, I check in several times a day to make sure that there are no new “Best Line of the Day”s so far. I vow to comment more. Keep on plugging away. Besides, if you didn’t have this what would you do with your time anyway? Read? Pashaw. Whatever.
Okay, here’s my 2 cents worth. Better than nothing, eh? I’m an “official” unrelated reader and enjoy your blog immensely, though I do read it through bloglines and not on-site. Thanks.
Your service is great. I just think it’s a little weird that I read this blog every day since I ran across it looking for info about moving to NM. I feel like a stalker but yours is the best blog around!
I’ll give you a tip, quit yer bitchin and get back to blogin. I don’t have time to surf for interesting things on the net and in NM, and I think you do a fine job for me. THANK YOU SIR, KEEP IT UP.
I’m always afraid to comment too often, because I don’t want to dominate the discussion or prattle on too much about my ideas. But I do read it every day, sometimes several times a day.
I really enjoy your blog. And thanks for the “Deer Hunting with Jesus” recommendation. I live 30 miles from Winchester Virginia and that was one of the most depressing books I’ve read in a long time. I gave it to a friend who teaches in Winchester so he can get another perspective on his students. I figure he’ll be even more depressed. Is there any hope for liberals in America?
Always looking for good non-fiction reads!
I, too, read your blog, everyday, very religiously. Several times a day. I’ve just preferred to keep quiet about it ~ just quietly reading away, hesitating to make mention but I can see that now is the time to say good job and thank you.
I also didn’t want to prattle on endlessly about how much I look forward to reading it and discovering those “best line’s of the day”. New ones pop up just when one really needs it. I’ve even turned some of my friends onto your blog.
I love the astronomy links that you provide and the information about national parks.
Oh what the heck, I’ll say it ~ I love your blog. Blog on.
Me, I’m with “unrelated reader” – you know you’re doing the same damn’ fine job you have always done. You’ve had an interesting career ( to go by the occasional hints dropped ), and now you have the time and eclectic interests – to say nothing of a higher-speed connection that we in the second world enjoy – to provide information, entertainment and insighful comment.
Stop pretending to be insecure, man : we need all the “voices of reason” we can get. If no-one’s actually bringing the rail and feathers to deal with the problems your great country currently has, then guys like you sloshing tar around is the next best thing.
The 8 of us who read you, need you !
Kim
Me too, er…a faithful reader checking everyday. This is a weird sort of news gathering/communication for an old guy (me). But, I do enjoy listening to you going on about this and that.
Carl
Yeah. I agree. If I commented every time I said “amen” or “right on” or “worst president ever…. bastard” to myself after reading something here, I would become tiresome. And how can one improve upon perfection by a superfluous comment?
Look at all the hits you get! Do you know if it shows up as a hit if I read most of your entrys in google reader (or other rss agglomerator)?
I tell my friends about your blog. I talk with my parents about it. Yet, I am sure that I am among the least of the apostles of the good news of the world view that is newmexiken.
doing my bit to re-assure you that you’re admired, adored, and enjoyed.
Muddy
Ken, you know me. I comment the exact same way I blog.
I don’t do either unless I have something to say. Which, come to think of it, is exactly the reason why this comment is short.
Don’t you know the first rule of getting tips? If you gotta ask for them, you don’t deserve them.
Then again, that may explain why I haven’t received a comment in days at my blog… hmm…
I check in on your blog at least once, usually mor ehtan once a day. And occasionally steal a post.
Ken, the Web is a wonderful thing. This is my first visit to your blog, and you ought to know how I got here.
I was emailing someone, see, and was making an argument that Tom Delay’s pictures were all PhotoShopped fakes and that I’d seen him once in an airport and in reality he has the head of an iguana.
Well, it occurred to me that I could enhance the impact of my composition if I could add a humorous police mug shot of an iguana, so I went over to Google Images and typed in
iguana mug shot
… which I highly recommend that anyone do right now, but nevertheless I did not find an actual iguana mug shot there.
But in going through the many pages of hits for “iguana mug shot” I saw a photo of what I thought was a dented stainless steel saucepan with a caption having to do with household hints, and I thought it might tell me a clever and effective way to smooth out a dented stainless pan like one I own.
Here we come round the home stretch. It turned out to be a photo of your garbage disposal veteran coffee scoop, but I was not disappointed, going from there to your collected household hints, and thence to this page and its Is Anybody Out There query.
And the answer is, heck yeah! This is the Web. There are forces driving hits to your blog that you could never imagine.
Best to all.
I’ve been reading this blog for three years now. I don’t comment often but would feel particularly bad to ignore such a pointed request. Last week I showed my wife the ‘saddest comic’ and made her cry. I’ll need to be a bit more careful in the future, but I can say it was all possible due to NewMexiKen and a bunch of electrons. To be fair, I’ve also made her laugh with several of the jokes. Cheers.
I see something that I *could* comment on every day, sometimes several times a day. But I usually don’t do so, because I imagine my name popping up in the comments column and readers groaning, thinking, “Shut up, already!”
But I love your blog, it makes me laugh and it makes me think.
As for inviting Ephraim back…that’s just not funny.
What she said. Except I welcome Ephraim back, he generated lots of comments.
I would like to disagree with everything everyone has ever said. And they’re all Nazis.
Are you sure comments are something to foster?
You keep me going here at the office Ken, though I don’t comment as often as I should. Too often, it’d be reduced to “ditto.”
Still, you know you rock, but here’s my affirmation just in case!
don’t know what I’d do without all the links and info you provide. It’s my lazy way of seeing what’s out there. Thanks for keeping us informed even if some of us never de-lurk!
This official friend looks in at least several times a week and ALWAYS finds something interesting, thought-provoking, funny (or sad) worth reading. Just because there are no comments does not mean you are not reaching people.
Now just where would we go to see a Pyrenees observatory, beautiful kids, crazy f***ers, and National Monuments, if not to NewMexican? This is lovely, really. Thank you.