I got up here in the wee hours to check the stats from the citation in yesterday's New York Times, page C4 for posterity, and was surprised to see that it does not alter the alignment of the planets.

Good Beer Blogs Stats - 13 June 2005

As you can see, last Friday when I was nothing and a nobody the beer blog had 965 visits from 519 sites. Yesterday when I was a star...I really was, you know...I had 1007 visits from 590 sites.

Woo.

Despite the extremely intersting process and the very intellegent and interested reporter, it appears that I am just never ever taking anything written on page C4 as important at all ever again. No way. That page is just for the likes of me and Sean Penn. You did notice I was one column and 2.5 inches from that big Sean Penn story, right? Oddly, there was a bigger bump here for some reason: 10453 visits from 1742 sites, both up 20% - but nothing on the "Gomery" googling insanity of early April. Sic transit gloria blogi. Google bots clearly do not drink ales and lagers. [You know, I should have gone with that sherry blog idea.]

Sadly it is clear that the goal would have to be getting into Section A of the globe's paper of record...but Canada never appears in actual news section of the New York Times. Likely any chance of Section A fame would require slipping over the border, something about police tape encircling a northern New York shopping mall and a quote from my mother to the effect that I was, after all, a bit weird growing up.