My 2000th Post

Okay, today is a joyous day here on the blog, one that I've been working toward for, literally, years, as we are officially on my 2000th post!!!!!!  Yes, I have officially written 2000 posts on movies, politics, my dating life, Broadway, tennis, Olympics, and at least one post where I randomly thirsted after Tim Tebow.  In honor of this, I figured it was okay to indulge in a little naval-gazing (that's such a weird phrase), and what better way to naval-gaze than making some narcissistic lists to celebrate the situation, cause lists are how we roll around here!

My 10 Most Viewed Articles

1. Happy Birthday Darren Criss! (this still is nearly twice as large as the #2 contender)
2. Ranting On...Mitt Romney's #NeverTrump Movement (for some reason this has been my most popular post for nearly a year now)
3. The YouTube British Invasion
4. Everybody's Linking for the Weekend 2/7/14
5. The Color Purple (my top-rated review)
6. Finding the Magic in the Harry Potter Movies (in my opinion the best of these ten articles)
7. Ben-Hur
8. What Democrats Should (and Shouldn't) Run for President in 2020? (I follow my stats pretty closely, and genuinely had no idea this was so high-ranking)
9. Who Doesn't Have an Oscar?
10. November Oscar Predictions: Music & Sound

I've been writing this for 2000 articles, and I'm still trying to figure out which articles really take off, if it's genuine love, a well-placed link somewhere, or just some bot software.  Either way, I hope people liked these!

The Ten Articles I'm Most Proud of Writing

1. What I Wish I Could Write on My Dating Profile
2. Orlando
3. History Only Has Time for Heroes and Villains
4. Barack Obama and the Midterms
5. What Should Count as Canon?
6. The Day I Realized I Might Never Get Married
7. 12 Unsolved Mysteries of Lost
8. Finding the Magic in the Harry Potter Movies
9. My Thoughts on the 2016 Election
10. Ranting On...Graham Moore's Weirdness

Each of these were some of the articles that stuck with me long after.  In some cases, because it was so much fun to write, in other cases because I felt I was able to sum up my opinion the best I could have hoped for, and in still other cases because it scared me to say some of those things out-loud.  Either way, if you've never read them, I encourage you to check them out.

16 Years We Weirdly Haven't Gotten to in the Oscar Viewing Project

1. 1934
2. 1940
3. 1952
4. 1965
5. 1968
6. 1973
7. 1977
8. 1980
9. 1981
10. 1987
11. 1988
12. 1989
13. 1991
14. 1998
15. 2001
16. 2005

Most of this is luck of the draw, but I'll prioritize getting reviews out for each of these years starting in December so that we have a completed set in case I missed your birth year (if you were born before the Oscars, we have the Silent Era tag for your perusal)

Top 10 Most Popular Tags

1. Oscar Viewing Project-588
2. Lists-286
3. Senate-193
4. Ranting On...-189
5. Democratic Party-187
5. White House-187
7. Official OVP Ballot-172
8. Republican Party-171
9. House-114
10. 2014-110

It brings me great joy (and a bit of surprise) that the Democrats actually have gotten more articles than the Republicans, but that may just be because I've been writing about the Republicans constantly in the past few months.

Heidi or Claire?

My two favorite senators to reference on the blog, Heidi Heitkamp and Claire McCaskill, have combined appeared in nearly 5% of these articles, but it is Heitkamp who bests McCaskill with mentions 51-43.

My Friends 5 Celebrities Mentions

1. Michael Fassbender-40
2. Prince Harry-32
3. Oscar Isaac-31
4. Michael B. Jordan-30
5. Colin Farrell-15

In the men I crush the hardest on, Michael Fassbender, ahem, comes out on top.

Battle of the Last Five Vice Presidents

1. Joe Biden-103
2. Mike Pence-90
3. Al Gore-86
4. Dick Cheney-26 (I'm surprised that's so low, tbh)
5. Dan Quayle-10 (and I'm surprised this is that high, though admittedly I like my historical footnotes)

Presidential Matchups

2016: Hillary Clinton (295) vs. Donald Trump (200)
2012: Barack Obama (338) vs. Mitt Romney (180)
2004: George W. Bush (92) vs. John Kerry (74)
1996: Bill Clinton (181) vs. Bob Dole (33)
1980: Ronald Reagan (42) vs. Jimmy Carter (18)
1960: John F. Kennedy (60) vs. Richard Nixon (27)
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes (2) vs. Samuel J. Tilden (1) (like real-life, Tilden once again loses by one vote)

5 Ways You Can Support the Blog

1. Comment!!!!!  I love comments, don't get nearly enough, and always comment back (even if it's on an old article)
2. Link my blog on your blog, social media, or however you communicate with people.
3. Follow me on Twitter
4. Read Daily (I write daily, so you should stop by and read daily)
5. Read the Back Catalog-I have 2000 articles and tags all to the side-I'm sure you can find something you haven't read before!

Thanks so much to everyone who reads, shares, & comments, on the blog.  It means a lot, and I love this part of my day/life.  Now, on to 2000 more!