HiLobrow’s Most Visited 2015
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January 2, 2016
During 2015, HiLobrow received 470,000 pageviews (384,000 unique pageviews). Wow! What pages did these folks visit?
Here’s a list of the 10 most frequently visited HiLobrow posts published during 2015.
- 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. This post entered the list at #1, during 2Q2015, and never left that spot! PS: On the strength of his apophenic food history writing for HiLobrow, Tom was offered a book contract. He’s written the book, and we expect it out in 2016. Tom’s book joins a stellar roster of HiLobrow-powered titles, including James Parker’s Cocky the Fox, Matthew Battles’s The Sovereignties of Invention, and Karinne Keithley Syers’s Linda Linda Linda.
- 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. This was the #2 post for 2Q2015, and it has remained #2 all year long. It’s true, what they say: The only thing more popular than WARHAMMER is 17th-century pie.
- FROM 4Q2015: Josh Glenn’s Best Adventures of 1966 installment in the BEST ADVENTURES series. In which Josh celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Crying of Lot 49, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Babel-17, The Unteleported Man, and A Long Way to Shiloh, among others. Thanks, Boing Boing, for the boost. December 28
- 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.
- FROM 1Q2015: HILO HERO: Robert Anton Wilson. Erik Davis’s appreciation of the anarcho-futurist, chaos magician, and transhuman reality hacker. January 18.
- FROM 2Q2015: Josh Glenn’s Best Adventures of 1975 installment in the BEST ADVENTURES series. From Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren to Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang. June 10.
- FROM 1Q2015: HILO HERO: Bob Marley. Jerrold Freitag wishes the reggae legend a happy birthday. February 6.
- FROM 1Q2015: You Down with VCP? HiLobrow editor Josh Glenn reveals his productivity secrets. March 29.
- 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. February 23.
- 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.
Thanks to all our HiLobrow contributors of 2015! On to 2016…
NOTE: this is not an all-time Top 10 list, nor is it a list of all the most frequently visited HiLobrow posts of 2015. Were it the latter, some of the most popular posts in 2015 would include: Molly Sauter’s Guy Fawkes Mask-ology essay (April 30, 2012); Josh Glenn’s Camp, Kitsch & Cheese essay (June 5, 2010 — but originally published, in Hermenaut, in 1997); Alix Lambert’s HILO HEROES post on June and Jennifer Gibbons (April 11, 2012); Josh’s Best Espionage Adventure Novels list (November 10, 2013); Barbara Bogaev’s HILO HEROES post on Paul C. Bragg (February 6, 2012); and — yes! — Tom Nealon’s STUFFED: Pie Shapes post.
PS: Even the most popular 2015 posts haven’t made it into our All-Time Top 25, yet. But give them time! HILOBROW’s all-time Most Visited list is nearly impossible to crack. In fact, the rankings have barely changed since this 2012 list.
Molly Sauter’s Guy Fawkes Mask-ology essay (April 30, 2012) is a notable exception; it was 25th on the list back then, and is 5th now. Also, two posts published since the Top 25 list was assembled have clawed their way onto the list: Alissa Walker’s KERN YOUR ENTHUSIASM installment about Susan Kare’s Chicago typeface (August 19, 2014); and my own Calvin Peeing Meme — Secret Origin! post (March 7, 2013).
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