With my stat plug-in, I can see what people have searched for to find my blog. I get a little bit happy every time I see someone actually searched for “maia madness”, and I wonder who might have done that because everyone I know in real life would be much more likely to just use the link in my Facebook profile.

But I get a lot of random stuff, too. Before Christmas, people kept finding my blog because they searched for “christmas lights”. How many pages of Google hits do you have to go through to find my blog on such a generic search? Someone must have been very bored. After my post on planned obsolescence some people ended up on my blog by searching for that, too. Lately, people have found my blog by searching for Linkin Park. Someone even found it by using the search term “Linkin Park sucks ass”.

People also find my blog by searching for Pink Floyd lyrics. I have twice used bits from Breathe (Reprise) as titles for posts (“Home, home again, I like to be here when I can. And when I come home cold and tired it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire”). People look up these lyrics, and find me, which is kinda cool.

But yesterday, someone found my blog by searching for “Swedish teens”. I find this… unnerving. What were they really looking for? I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know…