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Tuesday, July 20 1999
Early in the workday I was going through my Spies referral logs and I noticed I was getting a massive number of hits from an old friend, Cruel Site of the Day, which awards a sort of daily Pulitzer Prize for well-written tasteless material on the web. Two years ago (on July 25th, 1997) when Cruel.com was a bit more obscure, my Spanking and the Spanked page won the award. (A year ago, fellow sardonic Spies diarist Scott Anderson's Essay on German Toilets was also a winner.)
The winner today was my controversial Trenchcoat Mafia page, a page I'd originally created specifically to capture search engine hits back when the Littleton shooting was big in the news.
Interestingly, this morning the reason I'd been obsessively checking my logs was to keep track of a different page, my John F. Kennedy Jr. Conspiracy Page, also designed mostly as a means to catch search engine hits. I'd submitted the page to all the search engines and had occasionally dropped a link into a CNN Kennedy-topic message board. Last night I'd been impressed by the half-hour bursts of traffic I'd get before my posts became too deeply buried. But it was nothing compared to the constant traffic coming from Cruel.com. Hits to this journal were doubled simply from people wandering over from my award-winning TCM page.

(By the way, the Kennedy page is designed to read just like a newspaper article, even to the point of being dry and somewhat boring. I usually play down my sarcasm in hopes of greater shock to the inattentive reader, but in this case I think I'm hampered by not knowing at the outset exactly the point I'm trying to make. Another thing: check out JFK Jr.'s bathing suit picture. Ah, the wonders of a little subtle touching up with Photoshop...)

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