One of the more exciting aspects of checking FigureConcord's usage statistics turns out to be reading the search strings used to find my page among listings on, say, Google. More than likely due to the ever-growing vocabulary and serendipitous combinations of words on one HTML document, every succeeding month witnesses more bizarre string entries.

I'll present the Top 5, comments in parentheses:

5. "devil with the devil damned firm concord" (Exciting, as it's a Milton quote I used for the lyrics in a Concord song.)

4. "midterm elections bush weaknesses" (Fun to read because baby, it didn't happen!)

3. "partino le rondini" (From a scathing review I wrote regarding the worst Master of Fine Arts graduate show ever to behold.)

2. "marilyn manson as a commodity" (Somewhere, somehow, someone is about to write the worst term paper ever.)

1. "pictures senator ted kennedy red nose" (To Whom it May Concern: You came, ideologically, to the right place. Sadly, I don't have any of those yet.)

Congratulations!