Top Ten most viewed blogs posts of 2016

My annual joke, which is might as exciting as the below Top Ten. Who's talking about these?

Here's the list and the reasons for their rank-in actual order.

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• 1.Grand Slams reviewed by Mignon Ariel King in Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene

    Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene has been reviewing books since 2004. The site was
• Reason: Lots of hits because it's the ONLY review of Grand Slams 
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  2. Great early blurbs for Grand Slams and hey, wait, an Amazon review for "this old thing?" Thursday Appts. of Bill Sloan

  Chains like Grand Slams usually get burned by customer reviews: Disgusting By Someone - 11/01/2015 ...
• Reason: Blurbs are like reviews, right?
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  3. Poem, "When I Think Of My Childhood" published in Ibbetson 39

   This is what the poem is about, me at about the age of 16, 140 pounds. When I posted it on Facebook, some of the comments were,"...
• Reason: People wanted to gain insight. My parents and family clicked this 400 times each.
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  4. The road started, accelerated at age 17----Newark, Rt. 896

  It was the way it was. My latest published piece is the first story in a long while. Let's call it a pre-recovery story. The Universi...
• Reason: I've spoken about my Freshman year at U of D many times. This was more the horror show.
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  5. My poem, "The Filth and The Fury", published today on Oddball

  This poem features a dead relationship and accountability. Sometimes we have one, zero or both of these. "The Filth and The F...
• Reason: People were googling The Sex Pistols
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  6. Coming in November, Grand Slams, the novel

  Coming Soon: Grand Slams, my latest novel. Most people think of the diner chain, Grand Slams as a place to get lots of ...
• Reason: People wanted a Denny's Grand Slam meal. See statement of coincidence on inside novel notes
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  7. Another early and fabulous Grand Slam blurb (from Daniel Nester)

  Albany's Metroland featured Daniel's book, How to Be Inappropriate This week I had some great early blurbs from Nadine Darling ...
• Reason: The word FARTED on the thumbnail. 
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  8. Everybody (or book) deserves a second chance.

  Even in movies Then there's Second Chance Books, a website for books that deserve a second go-round because they 

  • Reason: Everyone does deserve a second chance...especially when they screwed up
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    9. Drought, Writer's Block or Something Else?

    February 11 2016 October 17, 2014 Perhaps the longest drought between writing poems since I began writing poems in 2001. Well I stopped...
  • Reason: People with Writer's Block love to read about Writer's Block instead of writing
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    10. Wilderness House Literary Review--I'm Baaack

    Steve Glines, Editor in Chief, WHLR I'm back reading fiction for Wilderness House Liteary Review, run by Steve Glines .  The cha...
  • Reason: Wilderness House keeps going and going and going....I keep going and coming back. Billy Martin effect