Victory is...HIS
ah, but who's counting?
"Victory is mine," said Richard when I told him the click count on his guest column.
I now have personal experience with the temptation to use celebrity, sex, and humor to grab eyeballs. Jeesh.
"More Richard!" was an incoming email from the column by none other than Sen. Tom Harkin, retired.
Wait. Let me get this straight, Tom. Had it not been for Krishna-the-Wonder-Dog marching in parades ahead of you in the summer of 1994, carrying a Frisbee with a Harkin for Congress bumper sticker, do you think you would have won that race?
Seriously. More RICHARD!?
"Look at that dog!" screamed kids, forcing their parents to look at the Frisbee, bumper sticker, then you. Dogs sell.
Your opponent may have had incumbency, but he did NOT have Krish.
I rest my case.
Seriously, this whole click-bait thing is fascinating. This column comes to you via Substack. It tracks metrics in lots of ways. So I know the column I wrote about my best friends' brain tumor, in which I put sweat and tears, got half the number of eyeballs than Richards' Super Bowl spoof, which ended in an innuendo about goats.
Guess the Story of a Ring, column about death, and brain tumors isn’t nearly as interesting as an image of a female referee wanting to 'ride a goat.'
Who knew?
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Richard had a moment when he second-guessed his writing of his Super Bowl commentary:
“Oh well, it’s not like I’m going to be applying for a job.”
More Sh*t Richard says to come!
As a woman, I prefer to read about things from a woman's perspective. I suppose that it makes me sexist, but men have had it pretty good for a long time!
Patrick Mahomes has a brain tumor???