My home page got 6,598 hits last year, I guess this is people investigating ‘what Steve is up to’. My profile is also in the Top 10, perennially, I guess this is the moment when people go ‘who is this idiot?’ Click.
In the Top 10 searched-for posts are two of my book reviews for Networks, one of Culture and Power by John Storey, and another of Visible Signs by David Crow. ‘Mind the Gap: Psychogeography as an Expanded Tradition’, my Street Signs article, is still in the Top 10, and got very good hits from the moment it went up. My Ptolemaic Terrascope interview with Will Sergeant still gets big pulls too, it flatlines to nothing, then spikes to hundreds, and then vanishes just as mysteriously.
I sort-of understand all of that. The borderline is my review of a four CD box set of Velvet Underground barrel scrapings on Captain Trip Records, originally written for Ptolemaic Terrascope. This is a piece of negligible significance. But persistent all the way through has been a photograph of a scrap of Spirograph drawing I found on the floor. Right up there. Always popular. A real hit. Not a confidence boost, that one.
