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Top Searches Finding Us…
I don’t know whether to be amused or horrified at the top searches that have brought people to this blog….
Search Views
naked girls 211
antique binoculars 46
naked girls reading 36
alison holst chocolate brownie 22
marque iris de paris binoculars 16
alison holst chocolate brownie recipe 16
random naked girls 15
ww1 binoculars 14
alison holst brownie recipe 14
michelle l’amour 12
alison holst microwave brownie recipe 8
puftaloons 7
naked girld 7
no longer a gemini 6
naked girls in library 5
wwi binoculars 5
chocolate brownie recipe alison holst 5
michelle lamour 5
alison holst chocolate brownies 5
naked library 5
nathan lowell 5
ponderings ruminations 5
nakedgirel 4
spiral tattoo 4
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,800 times in 2010. That’s about 12 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 217 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 260 posts. There were 212 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 91mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 8th with 114 views. The most popular post that day was Thunderbirds Are Go!.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, google.co.nz, diligentroom.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and tuataragirl.blogspot.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for naked girls, antique binoculars, naked girls reading, alison holst chocolate brownie recipe, and ww1 binoculars.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Thunderbirds Are Go! February 2010
4 comments
Naked Girls Reading July 2010
3 comments
The Case Of The Antique Binoculars July 2010
4 comments
Welcome and Who We Are! November 2009
The Spiral Tattoo April 2010
6 comments
Website
On the happy news for me, www.michaeljparry.com is active again. I have discovered that despite not having as many options from being actually hosted by a web services company, I can use WordPress to host it. I can even use Google to create emails! So I can still have a michael@michaeljparry.com email address!
And it’s all a lot cheaper… In that apart from one bit it’s free! 
Cool!
Naked Girls Reading
Michelle L'amour, creator of Naked Girls Reading
And no that doesn’t mean this post has pictures of the E.I.C. naked and reading…
While searching for material to post to the library blog, I came across the following article.
Naked girls reading? Burlesque turns a page [from the Globe and Mail]
It has to be the most provocative literary series in the world with a title like “Naked Girls Reading,” but it’s exactly as advertised. Burlesque divas remove the pasties and G-strings – those time-honoured barriers to complete nudity – and grab a book.
And it’s an all-star international lineup of naked readers who kick off the five-day, third-annual Toronto Burlesque Festival at the Gladstone Hotel Wednesday night. NGR, in fact, is the newest phenomenon of the phenomenal burlesque revival.
The concept came out of a chance remark by Chicago photographer/writer Franky Vivid. He walked into a room and found his naked wife, burlesque superstar Michelle L’amour, in repose, reading a book, which prompted him to remark, “I like the image.”
And so the couple began thinking about NGR as a form of entertainment. They considered, then rejected a pay-per-view website as being too prurient. They then hit upon the idea of a tasteful, old-style salon. They also discovered that naked girls reading has been a favourite subject of painters and photographers throughout the centuries.
Says L’amour: “We hold the series every month at my studio. Each evening has a theme, and each girl selects her own material which can come from fiction, non-fiction, song lyrics or poetry. For example, for the “Independent Women” show, readings included Dorothy Parker, Mae West and Coco Chanel. We publish the reading lists on our nakedgirlsreading.com website.”
NGR came to Toronto this past March when the strip divas of Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque held their first salon. Co-producers L’amour and Vivid licence out the trademarked name after carefully screening the quality of the applicants. The format is generally four or five readers who take 10-minute turns, ending with a group read from a common book. The readers usually perch demurely on a chaise.
Skin Tight NGR themes have included bedtime stories, Mother’s Day, and queer lit. The theme of the 2010 festival is MeTOPolis: The Future of Burlesque, and so the readings are science fiction. In fact, San Francisco’s Lady Monster knows Leonard Nimoy/Mr. Spock personally and consulted him about her reading selections.Skin Tight’s Sauci Calla Horra is the executive producer of the burlesque festival, and has performed in NGR salons. “It’s all about glamour and presentation,” she says. “You wouldn’t think something naked would require so many clothes, but you have to decide on the proper jewellery, shoes, perhaps stockings and special accessories to fit the theme.”
What an idea. I decided though it was too risqué to post to the library blog, but I had to share it somewhere. Actually the E.I.C. suggested I post it. I could see this being very popular, but not coming to a small country town like ours any time soon. It has it’s own website too..
The Art of Manliness and How to Give Flowers Like a Victorian Gentleman
A great new book came through the library the other day, which I have brought home. It’s called The Art of Manliness by Brett and Kate McKay. With a title like that how can you go past it
It’s got lots of neat little bits and pieces of advice on how to be a manly man. There is even more info at their website.
One of the bits I really liked was their guide to giving flowers like a Victorian gentleman.
I really like this idea, with the coded messages that people can have in their bouquet of flowers. We will need a list each for when flowers are exchanged and for when choosing plants to go in our new gardens at Enfarm.
Here are some of my favourites
- Arbutus - Thee Only Do I Love
- Camellia (Red) - You’re a Flame in My Heart
- Carnation (Red) - My Heart Aches For You, Admiration
- Chrysanthemum (General) - You’re a Wonderful Friend, Cheerfulness and Rest.
- Daffodil - Regard, Unrequited Love, You’re the Only One, The Sun is Always Shining when I’m with You
- Forget-Me-Not - True Love, Memories
- Ivy - Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection
- Lily Of The Valley - Sweetness, Tears of the Virgin Mary, Return to Happiness, Humility, You’ve Made My Life Complete
- Rose (Red) - Love, I Love You
- Tulip (General) - Perfect Lover, Frame, Flower Emblem of Holland
I also wonder if there is similar meanings for our native flowers…
If you want to know meanings for flowers this site has a list. I am sure their are others out there
Writing Software
Found an interesting piece of software courtesy of Kiwiwriters. It’s called yWriter5 and its a piece of freeware. I Like the look and the concept of it, as it helps you keep track of characters, scenes and places. But I don’t think I will use it just yet. I don’t want to get distracted from the actual writing by farting around with twiddly programmes. First, get the story written, then maybe explore other software etc for the next story.
It’s nice to know though that stuff like that is out there.
New Page
I have added a new page called “Writing”. I will put up here what I am writing, and eventually what I hope to have published. I will probably also list the EIC’s writings as well, but I will need to consult before hand.
On it at the moment is a short blurb for A Darkening Dawn. I think later in the week, once I have reached my writing target, I will edit some of chapter one and put it up… Maybe… If I am feeling very brave
Unshelved
Some of you may have noticed the comic strip sitting at the top of the front page of the blog. For those of you have stumbled across my blog who aren’t librarians, the strip is called Unshelved, and is a library inspired strip. I love it, as sometimes it is just so accurate, I se it as a bit like Dilbert. ANyway the strip will refresh each day as they authors upload the next one.
I will confess to most identifying with the character Dewey, with just a smidgen of Mel as well… 
Welcome And Something About The Writers!
Entfarm
Welcome to this blog. This is the blog of a couple of tree hugging rural bibliophiles.
Me, I’m Michael Parry, I am the Technical Service Librarian for the Tararua District Library. I have recently got right into social media/web2.0, hence this blog. I write for two other blogs, the Tararua Library blog and The Room of Infinite Diligence. I am very interesting in Digital Communities and heritage. I can also be found on Twitter. I am also into growing fruit trees, chickens, reading and writing.
My Editor-In-Chief and main conspirator for mad plans thinks she will also like to pop on and say some things from time to time, so I will leave it up to her to introduce herself…
So what will you read here? Well pretty much anything we want to put up!
You won’t get too much on libraries, as I will leave that for the other blogs. You will get thoughts on philosophy, writing, society, trees, and our next madcap scheme. Currently we are in the process of moving our house from it’s current locale, to the five acre block where we have planted 100 fruit trees.
