He wants to know just what is up with Rachel Lucas' ever-recurring popularity. Despite multiple exits from blogdom she is received yet again with open arms by a hungry and waiting audience. Well Harv, it's like this...
Rachel is the queen of all that is good and right. She is the Easter Bunny in disguise and supplied Santa with toys during the great elf strike of '94. She personally tracked down Saddam Hussein and tipped off the Army to where he was hiding. She took a bullet for the Pope, just because it was the right thing to do.
Which is to say, she was instrumental in lifting Snooze Button Dreams from obscurity. That only ever happens once in a blog's life. She helped a lot of people in large or small ways. She was friendly when a lot of big bloggers weren't.
She absolutely and completely despises Hillary Clinton.
She also was one of the finest ranters I've ever read. She's erudite and well written and uses base logic to support her emotional views. She posts dog pictures. She's an all around good read.
I understand why you're confused, Harvey. You got there when Rachel had started faltering. Her posts weren't as tight, her focus was wandering. She was finishing school and looking for a house and her blog showed signs of neglect. And then she retired, came back, retired again, came back sort of, then quit. Without a firm grounding in Rachelism from before the Time of Troubles that's absolutely a definite turn off. Hell, even for loyalists it was still a turn off.
But now she's back again with a new style, the new version of MT and humorous rants about John Edwards and dog urine. So of course we're welcoming her with open arms, hearts and blogulations.
She was one of my first daily reads. I'm sure I found you through her - actually, through Helen if I remember right, and I likely found Helen through Don and I know I found Don from Rachel. See? - it's all connected. Rachel is the Queen.
Oh.
My.
God.
That was like the most bendy-over and kissing-the-assy Rachel post I have read yet. Kudos :)
Her blog is a revolving door of appear and disappear. As for me, I can't handle people coming and going forty times-I can understand taking a break, reconsidering, but for the love of God, that kind of indecision is reserved for the insecure and screwed up in the world, not "blog leaders".
If she's going to exit stage left, do it already.
hmm.. brown noser...
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Ok, that would explain it then.
And I think I was test driving Rachel & finding her lacking last summer. Does that sound about the right time frame?
Yup, that's when the Time of Troubles was upon us.
"Test Driving Rachel" sounds like either a chick flick or a bad porn.
If Rachel is willing to write, I'm willing to read. She's the best free reading outside of a library.
It is sad that she has more to her life than entertaining us (from my point of view) but it's probably good for her.
Most of my favorite authors are dead; most of the rest publish about every year, and a few publish every week. It seems a bit much to require a writer to write something several times a day.
When she's willing to rant, I'm willing to read, because her rants are generally worth reading. I must say that I really do not care for dog pictures, but I suspect that is a failing of mine and not Rachels.
She has stopped blogging again, since you wrote this post, right?
"Made ya look, made ya look ..."
Not me. I've got her on the aggregator. hehe.