We are so grateful for all the positive feedback that we receive on this website. None is more gratifying than the 234 lackeys, aka Google Followers, that hang on our every word.
I take that back. We are not grateful at all. It has come to my attention that Mark Shea has 270 minions, a fact that he rubs in our faces every chance he gets! You may not know this but he mocked us at the last secret blogger meeting held at the La Quinta Inn in Poughkeepsie (They have great tacos there btw!). Yes, he is a well respected author, editor, and radio personality and we aren’t, but so what! This shall not stand!
Oh sure, Patrick Madrid has 489 followers, but he has that cool Burt Reynolds mustache. We just can’t compete with that. But Mark can and should be knocked down from his perch.
But it isn’t just Mark. Father Dwight Longenecker has 258 followers. It is true that he is a priest and we just can’t buy that kind of street cred. However we view his Google superiority as evidence of a pernicious form of clericalism. Besides, we have more hair. Well, Matthew doesn’t but I do and I probably will for at least six more months. So act now!
Anyway, help us to right these injustices. Follow CMR on Google!
November 18, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Okay, so that was fairly painless. I'm in.
November 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Oh boo frickin' hoo Patrick! You're cryin' over 234 followers? I got one! One lousy stinkin' follower, I tell ya! (Whoops! Let me rephrase that. I mean one precious, adored, much loved follower. I don't wanna lose her.) Be grateful for what ya got, kid!
November 18, 2009 at 7:46 pm
266!
I am sorry Father. Look out Mark!
November 18, 2009 at 8:36 pm
How about a Facebook link?
November 18, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I already do! the only drawback is that I love the actual site. It is so much purtier than the plain google blog.
November 18, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Oh, and I think you can link to this on Facebook if you have the blog ap.
November 18, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I guess we sit somewhere in the in-between. Between the Google followers and the Networked Blog followers, we sit at about 120. You guys should watch out…we are coming for you.
Mark doesn't mock me – yet.
November 18, 2009 at 9:06 pm
FYI – American Papist has 2,312 people who subscribe to his blog in Google Reader…we have about 200. We are no threat to his fiefdom.
November 19, 2009 at 1:31 am
OK, I'm a new follower, but seriously, you think Patrick M's mustache — which I totally like — is a Burt Reynold's thing? I don't see the resemblance, but then I don't think he sounds like the host on Catholic Answers Live either. Maybe I'm just weird. I'm hoping I don't start posting here, I need to be looking for a job!
November 19, 2009 at 4:47 am
I have a Google account, but I'm just too cool to use it to "follow" anyone.
I come here directly too. Thanks to Firefox's spiffy "smart address bar," every time I type "m", CMR appears at the top of the suggestion list. So I hit the down arrow button, then [enter], and here I am.
I too had the habit of opening comboxes to read them later, but actually now I think that's bad for your brain because it kind of gives it a shock to see comments for one post you've read five other ones. So thank you for your efforts to keep my brain healthy.
I'd say the worse comment section is AmP's. I hate having to go through the trouble of logging into Twitter and then telling the comments app to not publish it to my Twitter account. Fr.Z's comment section is pretty bad too, in that I can't even post in it (I don't like giving away my real name, not even to good ol' Fr.Z – the Internet just makes me paranoid).
November 19, 2009 at 4:51 am
That should've been:
comments for one post after you've
the worst comments section is
telling the comments app to not publish my comment to
I guess your efforts to keep my brain healthy have come too late =)
November 19, 2009 at 5:47 am
Matt, I thank you for the "forgiveness" . . . your blog ROCKS, man!!!
November 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
Well, I've been a CMR google follower long before.
My own blog has about 50 hits a day, while I have a grand total of two Google followers. One is an Archbishop, and the other is my mother. No problem.
November 19, 2009 at 11:46 am
WillyJ,
AS CMR doesn't have any Archbishops following us, we're willing to make a trade. Your archbishop for three CMR readers to be named later.
You can keep your mother. Trading her would seem a little unseemly.
November 19, 2009 at 12:02 pm
If it is any consolation to you, I started following you before I started following Patrick. I also don't follow Mark yet although I do read his blog occasionally .
November 20, 2009 at 1:25 am
Don't feel bad. I have 2 and _one_ of them is my daughter. I have two daughters and a wife. What's with that?