“9/11 TENTH-ANNIVERSARY” DAY-IN-REVIEW
Woke ~3:30PM and reblogged an excerpt from a story in Bed featuring a fictionalized account of what I did the week after 9/11. Looked at Statcounter, screenshotted/posted 9/11-related searches from Jordan and Montreal that proved relatively unpopular, garnering a combined 7 likes and 4 reblogs.
Next I consulted Richard Yates’ index and was surprised 9/11 is mentioned only once, on page 38 (thought it was mentioned at least twice). I downloaded my PDF of it and screenshotted/posted the relevant passage with the relevant sentence highlighted. On Twitter I linked the post, asking if Richard Yates “was my 9/11 novel” and deploying a record number (4) of hashtags, for me, I think, including #firstworldproblems and #whitegirlproblems.
Next I posted 5 images, each neutrally conveying “9/11” in black text on white background, via Comic Sans, Helvetica, Myriad Pro, Garamond, Arial. Comic Sans received the most notes (15), Myriad Pro the least (6). No one expected Helvetica to receive only 1 more note than would be half of the font with the most notes, but it did. No one—except perhaps Arial itself—expected Arial to be only 1 note short than would’ve tied it for most notes, but it did. A trophy has been packaged and will be mailed to Comic Sans later this week. Arial will be receiving a personal “congrats” email (currently saved as a “draft”). The others have already received automated form-letter-emails inviting them to secure the opportunity—via $15 “entry fee”—to participate again in 2021, 2026, 2051, 2101, etc.
This post has been completed in the tradition of VINTAGE “BOOK DEAL” WEEK-IN-REVIEW and MY “NON-VIRAL BLOGGING WEEK-IN-REVIEW, innovating on the form by replacing “week” with “day.”
