Snorgtastic.

I love seeing how many people read my blog and -- even more interesting -- how people get here. True, the majority of my readers are friends and acquaintances, but I've mentioned before that a few curious Google searches (e.g., "Ahmedinejad hotness") have led quite a few strangers my way, many of them foreign. With my latest return to Colonial Jumbo, I've started checking my site meter again and I couldn't help but notice a bit of a trend. A large percentage of my traffic comes from one particular image search on Google: "snorg girl."

So I tried it myself. My blog is the FOURTH link. This post gets more hits than anything else I've ever written on here.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about that.

Swamped.

I've been totally swamped with life lately. Not bad swamped, just really busy with work and interviews (more on that soon). I didn't want to leave you without a post for too long (remember what happened last time?) so I thought I'd take a moment out of my currently busy life to highlight a website that brightens my day even when I'm super-swamped:

www.cuteoverload.com

I dare you to visit this site and not feel better about life or, at the very least, smile a bit to yourself. It's really a bit like Snorg Girl, but with fur.

I (heart) Snorg Girl.

As you may know, I’m an avid reader of Wonkette. Wonkette – unlike this dinky affair – is a professional website with advertisers (ooh!). Recently among those advertisers is a website called Snorg Tees that sells novelty t-shirts. Most of their ads feature a young woman wearing one of their novelty t-shirts with her mouth open in an expression of what I’ve decided is best described as surprised glee.

Now here’s the weird part: I just can’t get enough of her! Snorg Girl affects me in a strangely primal way. I don’t know what it is about her, but just seeing her in the Snorg Tee ads completely cracks me up and fills me with a brief but distinct sense of completely unbridled joy. I can be in a terrible mood or extremely tired and just one glimpse of Snorg Girl will make me laugh out loud and fill me with enough energy to get me through another hour of work. It’s inexplicable. I sort of want her to be my best friend.

So here, for all of you to enjoy, is my favorite picture of Snorg Girl in her “I’m Kind of a Big Deal” t-shirt (© 2007 Snorg Tees):