A Total Stranger Owns My Blog!

Yesterday I went over to the The Flypaper Theory to taste some sour grapes:

Seems TFT didn't show up on some list of Tennessee's most influential political blogs. We weren't registered with the site. I'd never heard of the thing and still don't quite know what it is or does.Anyway, it wouldn't be fair for TFT to compete with all the little blogs out there.

Making sure my treasured spot in the TFT blogroll was still intact, I took that blog's implicit invitation to click the BlogShares button at the bottom of their pages. (It's just below the TFT's confidential hit counter.)

On the BlogShares site, I saw this chart for The Flypaper Theory:

Oh My! A press release on the site said:

The Pesky Fly suffered a huge setback with several analysts urging their clients to ditch the stock as it suffered a public relations disaster. The exact nature of customer dissatisfaction was not known....

Despairing of my friends' recent fall from grace, I was nonetheless able to find some consolation in this list of The Flypaper Theory's "Top 100 Incoming Links":

1. Sadly, No! (B$7,242.13)
2. The Daily Docket (B$1,126.14)
3. Lawn Jockey & Amos 'N' Andy Hall of Elected Officials (B$1,100.00)
4. Blogging in Memphis (B$1,100.00)
5. Rachel & The City (B$882.06)
6. Memphis Blue (B$855.60)
7. Confessions of a West Tennessee Liberal... (B$420.09)
8. Tennessee Guerilla Women (B$396.43)
9. Queer Notes (B$349.69)
10. Randomthoughtpatterns (B$328.21)
11. LeftWingCracker (B$293.02)
12. corrente (B$284.21)
13. The Conservative Zone (B$278.74)
14. Thursday Night Fever (B$274.46)
15. SharonCobb (B$206.65)
16. Midnight, and I'm Still Not Famous (B$201.91)
17. Rock'n'roll Minor Planets (B$198.12)
18. Aspire to the Stars (B$185.55)
19. Half Bakered (B$144.96)
20. The Memphis Scene (B$142.43)
21. Tread lightly on the things of earth (B$137.18)
22. Cherry Blossom Special (B$132.54)
23. theology&geometry (B$127.62)
24. webraw/blog :: uncooked web goodness (B$127.55)
25. In The Driver's Seat (B$124.14)
26. Just Another Girl On The IRT (B$118.73)
27. Elevator Cabeza (B$118.28)
28. AlphaPatriot (B$93.04)
29. Loudersoft (B$78.46)
30. Peripetia (B$76.56)
31. Newscoma (B$75.78)
32. artbutcher (B$75.51)
33. The Phil Harwell Blog-Type Thing (B$73.33)
34. a pulp faction (B$61.18)
35. Cherry Blossom Special (B$61.05)
36. Knox Views - R. Neal (B$21.72)
37. KnoxViews (B$14.86)
38. Fret Free Fridays (B$6.88)
39. Off The Grid (B$6.55)

I had no idea I was listed on this exchange, so I clicked on over to see how my chart was doing:

Hmmm....looks like my stock is way up! However, much to my horror, I then saw that a total stranger owns 80% of my blog! And probably made a killing off me, buying me for what the uninformed thought I was worth and holding me for what I'm really worth. Imagine that...an old stoner like me....

Shares Owners

Player---------------Number (%)---Last Bought / Sold

Rosemarie Wilindar--4000 (80%)--09:43 20 Dec 2006

Total Shares: 4000 by 1 owners (80%)
1000 shares are reserved.

I can report, though, that Rosemarie has not tried to exercise any editorial control over The Daily Docket....