The referrals from web searches for Adrien Brody’s speech keep pouring in to Rebel Prince. Not just from Google.com, mind you. I’m also getting hits from foreign websurfers using Google Canada, Japan, Korea, Poland, Netherlands, and Switzerland. At best, in the list of search results, Rebel Prince ranks second only to an old article link in the Guardian, which gets me thinking, “Hey, I can take on a major British news-media conglomerate, right?” Well, sooner or later, perhaps even as I type, the Google robot will wake up and do another sweep, during which my site will be bumped down a few pages in favor of more likely websites.
All the searches for Mr. Brody’s fine words brought on a surge of post-Oscar web traffic, the likes of which my little site hasn’t seen before. What does that look like? Here’s a chart, counting visits from 4 March (the date I started using Site Meter), leading up to the day after the Oscars. Okay, I’m probably pushing up the search relevance the more I talk about it, so I’ll stop here. For now.
Off-the-rack remarks. A leftover fashion observation from Sunday: as much as I appreciate Daniel Day-Lewis’ flair for the extraordinary, his slightly shimmering gray tuxedo just looked out of place amidst the sea of black jackets.
Oh, and I forgot to write about this earlier: last weekend’s most egregious fashion faux pas was not committed at the Oscars, but at the Pentagon press briefing on Saturday by Deputy Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Victoria Clarke. What is this? (Feel free to make up your own “shock and awe”-variant remarks. I’ll start: more like, shock and awful? Thanks, I’ll be here all week.) Girlfriend, you’re representing the American military, in wartime no less… a little restraint, please? Let’s just say we’d never see Madeleine Albright or Condi Rice in something like that.