Another 'News' Filler

Hi anyone who still reads this blog on a regular basis and feels comfortable enough to comment, BSD have a list it's like your help finishing. Want to help?

Here is the rundown- In order to better bring you (the reader) the utter insanity, batshit, and everongoing triumph of weirdness in the world Blast Shields Down has begun to build a list of google alerts. For those who do not know "Google Alerts is a service offered by search engine company Google which notifies its users (by email) about the latest web and news pages of their choice."

As of now BSD's list of google news alerts looks something like this-
Aquaman
Battlestar Galactica
Bizarro Superman
Cthulhu
Dracula
Mars
Ray Bradbury
and Tentacle Rape...

We are wondering if there is anything we're overlooking, some element of BSD 'memery' you can think of which should be added to the list, or anything simply weird and entertaining you'd like to see us on the look out for? To quote a line "Comments plz."

Management

State of the Blog 3

Well, it's been a year, so I figured it'd be a good time for another of these addresses to the readers. Thanks everyone for all the comments, they were amazing and really made me remember why I write on here. Things have been a bit slow lately, but they should be picking up near the end of April. Finals are coming up, so I'm sure Caleb and I will be bogged down in them. Already, I'm doing this when I should be reading Rousseau.

Up at the moment is my first attempt at a banner, I think I did a pretty good job all things considered, though I can't figure out how to get the damn thing centered.

I put up some testimonials that I gleaned from the comments section of the blog. If you want to claim one of the anonymous ones, go ahead, but we're going to need DNA evidence. I hope you find them amusing.

I also added a section on the left for some of what Caleb and I believe are our best posts, mostly for people new to the site who want to see that we can actually write and not just ramble on inanely.

Statistics:
Visits: 7,634
Pageviews: 10,180

We've been experiencing a recent spike in visitors thanks to my piece on tentacle rape. "Tentacle Rape" is now the second highest keyword from search engines that brought people here, right behind "Blast Shields Down"... go figure. Caleb and I might have to discuss a new business model...

BSD's Upcoming Summer Projects:
- form baseball team: The Dearborn Dianogas
- hold Superhero mock draft
- fix the formatting of the blog
- get rid of extraneous labels
- solve cases for Mystery, Inc.

State of the Blog 2

Well, it's been almost eight months since Caleb and I started this thing, and more since this wacky idea popped into my head while I was in the shower. Despite some slow times, some bad cases of writer's block, I'm really proud of where we are at the moment. This will be our 88th post, which is sort of mind boggling when you think about it.

Since I set up Google Analytics to track how many visitors we get, the numbers are as follows:

Visits: 3,890
Pageviews: 5,301

We've had visitors from every state of the union save Alaska, Arkansas, Montana and New Mexico as well as from every continent (save Antarctica).

Anyway, on Caleb's behalf, I would just like to say thank you to everyone that has ever stopped by, and especially to those who actually brave the weirdness to visit on a regular basis. You have no idea how much it means to both of us.

Speaking of which, we really appreciate all of your comments, but it'd be nice if you gave us some sort of name (even if it's fake), it's nice to know who is saying what. Gives the comments a sense of continuity.

To wrap it up, I'll leave you with some of the funniest Google search terms that have led people to this site. I hope this doesn't alienate our audience...

- some combination of "blouse", "down" and "cleavage"
- "rod allen moron"
- "english bill of rights + lesson + magna carta + kid"
- "heather from accounts services"
- "aliens canada green blood"
- "alligators baseball cartoons"
- "cavewoman robot fucking cartoon"
- "computer games with falling cat & dog heads"
- "evil cartoon about taking over the world marketing"
- "how to make a blast shield"
- "is mario impemba a christian?"
- "john the baptist bible games for kids"
- "mario and peaches having sex in the bed"
- "mario impemba christian broadcaster"
- "mario porn"
- "michelin man costumes in michigan"
- "noferatu mummy hunchback gypsy woman"
- "richard the lionheart hardship roadblocks"
- "saint john the baptist fireflies"
- "sometimes I beat the living shit out of me"
- "ted roosevelt's proof of the pythagorean theorem"
- "video of mario and peach having sex in their bed"

I'm pretty sure all of these people were sorely disappointed...

There will be some renovations to the blog over Christmas break when Caleb and I will be home. Look for a new banner and a few other changes.

State of the Blog

My fellow…

Er… nevermind…

Well, it’s been almost three months since Caleb and I started the blog, and I just wanted to state a few things without having to be humorous or interesting… yes, this will just be boring.

I hope you all have enjoyed our rambling on about Star Wars, super heroes and old Sci-Fi movies, though I'm not quite sure why you would. I sure have enjoyed writing this thing, though. But, today we surpassed 1,000 visits on the site, and we have around 1,500 pageviews, so I just want to thank everyone who has visited the site and read what we’ve had to say. Caleb and I both really appreciate it.

In these past months we’ve had visitors from every continent (except for Antarctica, but I’m working on building some penguins a computer so we can change that… dammit, I said no jokes and that wasn’t even a good one). I would also like to thank the entire countries of…

Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Poland, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Jordan, Bangladesh, India and Australia for having visited our site.

I would also like to thank residents of thirty-two different states for visiting and give a special thanks to Naperville, Illinois for being the city with the most visits outside of Michigan.

I never really thought that anyone but people we knew would visit, or that anyone would actually like it, so this has exceeding my wildest expectations. Again, thank you all. We appreciate any comments or suggestions that you might have, either through the comment section on posts or through the e-mail link at the side of the page.

Also, Caleb now has a job where he’s working full time as well as summer classes he is taking. I have no idea how much he is going to be posting for a while mostly because I’ve barely talked to him for weeks, but I’m sure he’ll send stuff when he can.

Lastly, I just want to talk about a few other blogs that I’ve become aquatinted with (mostly because my friends write them) recently.

Careful with that Blog, Eugene is named after some obscure sitcom reference that its creator Paul told me and then I forgot. The writing is hilarious and the subjects often odd (though maybe not as odd as this blog). He often discusses movies and music, but its definitely not limited to that.

Genuinely Sarcastic (which will from now on be referred to as “Kudronia” on this blog because the other name is just awful) is a new blog that my friend created. It has a focus on Detroit and Michigan sports, but also other interesting and just weird news stories. I just cannot wait until the creator, Kudron, finally gets to writing about his rambling, insane adventures. Besides, there are Peanuts strips, and who can pass that up?

The last blog I haven’t had much time to read, but seems very good. It’s called Pink Raygun and seems to be about Sci-Fi from a girl’s perspective. Now, the site design is far too pink for my taste, but what I’ve read of the articles are informative and funny. I particularly enjoyed the post about the parenting abilities of various Sci-Fi dads.

Well, that’s all for the moment, maybe I’ll do something like this again, maybe I won’t. It was a lot easier than actually thinking of something original to write about, though, that’s for sure. You know what? How about you just comment and tell me how you’ve felt about things so far. I’d really appreciate it.

-Matt