Why do people visit my blog? That is the question. There are some people who are friends and they drop by to see how Mikey is doing or to see what nonsense I am writing. But there are other people who do a search on a topic and end up on my blog. So what are the most common Google searches that find their way here?

In no particular order:

Shiny Toy Guns Major Tom: Apparently a lot of people have heard the version of the song, “Major Tom” by Shiny Toy Guns and like it. I get a few hits each week looking for this song but I’m not sure if they are interested in reading about the song or are looking for the song itself. The link to the song that is on the site is to a 30 second commercial. At the time I blogged about it there was no entry on Youtube but maybe there is one now.

Is Benjamin Burnley married? – Two years ago, the song “The Diary of Jane” by Breaking Benjamin was a song of the week. Ever since then I get regular hits from searchers wondering if the lead singer, Benjamin Burnley, is married. Unfortunately, people stopping by for this vital piece of information always leave unfulfilled because the blog entry does not mention whether he is married or not. So for those of you who are in desperate need of this bit of info, Mr. Burnley is indeed married to Ashlie Levi Burnley. Update: Mr. Burnley is not married but is in a very serious relationship with Rhiannon Napier.

Sparknotes Under a Cruel Star – Almost 3 years ago I wrote a review of “Under A Cruel Star” by Heda Margolius Kovaly. The book is an autobiography of a woman from Czechoslovakia covering the period right before she was sent to a Nazi concentration camp through the period when her husband was executed by the communists in the early 1950′s to when she fled Czechoslovakia in 1968. But the book is not particularly popular or well known so why are people searching for it? It appears to be that there is a school somewhere that requires students to read this book and the students are looking for a Cliff Notes/ Spark Notes version. I would say to those students, go ahead and read it. It’s short and a good read.

Pictures of witches – Last year I blogged about my daughter being a witch because she put a hex on a boy in her school and he got hit by a car, although he wasn’t seriously injured. As an image to perk up the entry, I found a drawing of the three witches from Macbeth and added it to the entry. For some reason that image has become a popular search on the web. At least twice a week I get a hit from a google search for that image.

Most of the other searches are various music groups that happen to match a song of the week. I have noticed that a recent blog of a song by The Donnas has suddenly started generating searches. Perhaps they will soon join my popular search list.