Nuns Eating Meatloaf (And Other Curiosities)

First, thanks to mudwig, whose blog I have been following for a few years now, and to grouchie, whose blog I recently discovered, on mentioning my blog in recent days.  That simple act by both of you has spiked my readership a mind-boggling 1,700%--a bump from an average of one view per day to 18 (!!!)  Let's hope that the interest lasts longer than the Romney bump after the Republican National Convention, which lasted as long as a morning hangover.  Both of their blogs are on my bloglist for two simple reasons: (1) they are entertaining and (2) they are updated regularly. 

I didn't know that the Innertube was so massive.  People who are not my mother are reading this blog.

Parenthetically, and apropos of absolutely nothing, I have found that when I type the words "nuns eating meatloaf" into google images, I get the following picture:

. . . which feels at best like a lazy effort by Google and at worst false advertising.  I don't see meatloaf anywhere.  Also, I am beginning to doubt that these ladies are nuns.

So I will give Google Images a second chance.  Now I will try to enter a search string that should lead me to the same picture: "Non-nuns not eating meatloaf."
When I do, all that remains are pictures of (M/m)eatloaf, the dish and the singer.

I suppose that this is my way of saying that Google Images makes me sad.

Did you ever see Being John Malkovich?  If you didn't, there's a part of the movie when John Malkovich enters a portal that will lead him into the brain of . . . John Malkovich.  And what happens when John Malkovich enters a portal into his own brain?

Or to picture the question as an image . . .

? ? ? ?

Well, the answer is that everyone has a Malkovich head and speaks in a single-word language that we'll call, oh, I don't know, Malkovich.

Waiter: Malkovich Malkovich?

Woman: Malkovich.

But you knew that already, I imagine.  But I would like to advance this idea just a little bit.

What if I type the words Google Images into Google Images?

Will the images look like this?

Turns out the answer is no.  Instead we get what you might expect:

Or alternatively:

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After looking through my blogger stats for this blog, I found that my most popular post has more than double the views of my #2 post.  It is a clip to a Nicolas Jaar song, whose album Space Is Only Noise is fairly tremendous.
I get the feeling that there's some Russian dude out there who found the link, made it one of his favorites, and clicks on it every day to hear the song "Too Many Kids Finding Rain in the Dust."  It's moody, melodic, and evokes Nick Cave.  Nice choice, Sergei.  Molodetz!

In an earlier post, I was on the fence about starting Band Wars 2.  I am no longer on the fence about it.  I am going to do it again because it is going to force me to listen to the music that I have been obsessively downloading. 

At the time, I had 29 albums lined up and needed 3 more to set up a good March Madness-style single-elimination tournament.  Well, here are the last 3 that I plan to add to the list:

Dntel, Aimlessness

Antony and the Johnsons, Cut the World

Guided by Voices, Class Clown Spots a UFO

There, that makes 32, a good number of which I have not yet listened to.  So no recommendations yet.  Barring a few last-minute changes, all I have to do is pick the names out of a hat to randomize the matchups.