HiLobrow’s Most Visited 2Q2015

By: HILOBROW
June 30, 2015

Here they are! The 10 most frequently visited HiLobrow posts published during April, May, and June 2015. And also, below that, a list of the 10 most frequently visited HiLobrow posts published during 2015.

Top posts published during 2Q2015

Note that the first five of these 2Q2015 posts have proven so popular that they’ve bumped posts published in 1Q2015 — i.e., posts that have had a weeks’ or months’-long advantage over the newcomers — off the 2015 Top 10 list. That’s impressive.

Tom Nealon’s STUFFED series captures not one, but two spots on our 2Q2015 Top 10 list — nice! (Plus, Tom’s first DE CONDIMENTIS post, from September 2010, is on HILOBROW’s all-time Top 25 list.)



1. STUFFED: Pie Shapes. The 7th installment in Tom Nealon’s STUFFED series, in which our hero investigates a page depicting bizarre pie shapes from a 17th century English cookbook. Tom enlists another HiLobrow friend and contributor, Deb Chachra, to help crack the case. May 6.
2. FALSE MACHINE (1). The first installment in Patrick Stuart’s FALSE MACHINE series. In which the British blogger has a think about Warhammer figurines as sculptures. June 15.



3. HiLo Hero: Gerald Gardner. Erik Davis recalls to our attention the man who almost singlehandedly founded the postwar religion of Wicca. June 13.
4. MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA: Leg Makeup. The 6th installment in Lynn Peril’s MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA series reminds us that during WWII, there was a nylon shortage. Therefore, many American women faked stockings — by applying leg makeup! June 8.



5. HiLo Hero: Moebius. Anthony Miller on Moebius — one of the founders of the revolutionary bande dessinée magazine Metal Hurlant, which reached American readers in 1977 as Heavy Metal. May 8.
6. HiLo Hero: Billie Holiday. Adam McGovern on the lady who sang the blues. “A prophet of musical possibilities and mass emotional communion.” April 7.
7. 10 Best Adventures of 1975. Josh Glenn’s list of the 10 best adventure novels of 1975. From Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren to Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang. June 10.



8. The Semiotics of Semioticians. Why are so many semioticians bald — and we’re talking bald-bald — ? We wonder about the significance of this fact. April 15.
9. HiLo Hero: Daniel Clowes. Josh Glenn on one of the all-time greatest cartoonists. “Inventive, smart, funny, poignant, brilliantly weird.” April 14.
10. STUFFED: Potato Chips & Democracy. In the 6th installment in Tom Nealon’s STUFFED series, our hero charts a relationship between how many potato chip flavors a country boasts, and how democratic it is. April 16.

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Top 10 HiLobrow Posts of 2015 (So Far)

Here’s a list of the 10 most frequently visited HiLobrow posts published since January 1 of this year. (Note: this is not an all-time Top 10 list.) Five posts from 2Q2015 have made it onto this 2015 Top 10 list, leaving five posts remaining from our Most Visited 1Q2015 list.

Well done, Erik Davis — two HiLo Hero items on this 2015 Top 10 list! (Plus, Erik’s Cute Cthulhu post, from May 2010, remains HILOBROW’s most popular post ever.)

1. FROM 2Q2015: STUFFED: Pie Shapes. The 7th installment in Tom Nealon’s STUFFED series, in which our hero investigates a page depicting bizarre pie shapes from a 17th century English cookbook. Tom enlists another HiLobrow friend and contributor, Deb Chachra, to help crack the case. May 6.



2. FROM 2Q2015: FALSE MACHINE (1). The first installment in Patrick Stuart’s FALSE MACHINE series. In which the British blogger has a think about Warhammer figurines as sculptures. June 15.
3. FROM 1Q2015: HiLo Hero: Robert Anton Wilson. Erik Davis’s appreciation of the anarcho-futurist, chaos magician, and transhuman reality hacker. This item was #1 on our 1Q2015 list; it’s still going strong. January 18.
4. FROM 2Q2015: HiLo Hero: Gerald Gardner. Erik Davis recalls to our attention the man who almost singlehandedly founded the postwar religion of Wicca. June 13.



5. FROM 1Q2015: HiLo Hero: Tetsumi Kudo. Gary Panter on the Japanese artist whose medium involves sickly plants, spores, snails, circuitry, penises, tiny people, and indecipherable signage. This item was #2 on our 1Q2015 list; also still going strong. February 23.
6. FROM 2Q2015: MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA: Leg Makeup. The 6th installment in Lynn Peril’s MUSEUM OF FEMORIBILIA series reminds us that during WWII, there was a nylon shortage. Therefore, many American women faked stockings — by applying leg makeup! June 8.
7. FROM 1Q2015: HiLo Hero: Bob Marley. Jerrold Freitag wishes the reggae legend a happy birthday. This item wasn’t even on our 1Q2015 list; though two other HiLo Hero items by Jerrold were. So it has gained a lot of ground. February 6.



8. FROM 1Q2015: You Down with VCP? HiLobrow editor Josh Glenn reveals his productivity secrets. This item barely scraped on to the 1Q2015 list at #10; it’s gained some ground.
9. FROM 2Q2015: HiLo Hero: Moebius. Anthony Miller on Moebius — one of the founders of the revolutionary bande dessinée magazine Metal Hurlant, which reached American readers in 1977 as Heavy Metal. May 8.
10. FROM 1Q2015: Best YYA Lit 1965. Josh Glenn’s list of his favorite 1965 kids’ books — from Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone to Tove Jansson’s Moominpappa at Sea — was #4 on our 1Q2015 list. January 13.

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