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poetry/antipoetry & exploitation movies
my regular readership of this place in the pixels usually hovers around less than 100. i am grateful to get that many readers & i am humble that readers will take a few moments out of their busy lives to read my posts. but today, & a few days ago, the number of readers spiked to well over a thousand. at first i'm flattered as hell. but looking at the posts that readers clicked on stretched back to 2005. & they were random too. no themes. it's possible that there are readers, or reader, like me, that will stick around the blog of a writer & go deep into their archives. i do that a lot. but it might be a bot that is scouring the web for, well, i don't know. as much as i follow tech news & developments, & even as long as i've been blogging, i'm still pretty much a beginner at them. but having one of my posts 'unpublished' from 2004 because it violated Blogger's TOS makes me go, huh. bots do scour the interwebs. they are also used to skew the numbers of clicks & attempt to drive traffic. i should think that me being a small-press antipoet is of such little concern even to Skynet that john connor wouldn't give a shit. still, this is a little weird. not that i'm a little paranoid. but then as the paranoid say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out there. so who the fuck knows. as i've said in a recent post about the influence of DIY punk ethos/aesthetics on my living & thinking one of the reasons why i continue to blog even if blogging is no longer the hip thing to do is that blogging allows me to self-publish. it gives me the tools that allow me to do my own thing. we live in a digital age/world. publishing online is where i can practice the art as cavafy practiced poetry, or how punk rockers recorded, pressed & distributed their music & zines. so c'mon, bots! i am not john connor. break me a give. & as for all you all. thank you for stopping by! i really, really appreciate you!
i got an email this evening from the Blogger Team notifying me that one of my posts from 2004 was unpublished because it violated blogger's TOS
i didn't title my pieces at that time & i have no idea what the post was about & since it was nearly a 20 year old piece of writing i will probably never know what the post was about & how it offended the TOS
at first i thought this was a spam email until i logged on tonight & saw the notice in my dashboard
then, i recalled my friend alex gildzen writing about the same situation that happened to him
http://arroyochamisa.blogspot.com/2023/03/strange.html
like alex said about his own blog my place in the pixels has a relatively small readership
i'm grateful to have a readership at all considering that i'm a small press poet of no renown obsessed with horror/exploitation movies sex desire life poetry family friendship etc etc.
& i can't recall any of my writings that could piss off the algorithms of our fair digital cultures
unless you consider cuss words that are abundant in my writings & in the early days of this blog i was writing a lot about wild exploitation movies
like beckett sez i can't go on i'll go on
keeping on keeping on
i am grateful to have this space for my poems reviews essays & rants
& i am very grateful to have you too along for this wild ride into movies living & the international republic of [anti]poetry