I don’t know what the secret is. Perhaps they pay them? Maybe they know secrets about them that they hold over their heads in exchange for comments?

Most likely it’s a result of a lot of hard work with trackbacking, extreme networking and internet socializing that I just don’t have the time or inclination to invest in. A good deal of my readers are people I know in real life, so they comment to me in person. So, I’m good where I am. Besides, I would feel like I had to respond to all 150 comments individually, every time. And every comment would have to be personally suited to the commenter. And witty. I would pull my hair out making the attempt, anyway. That’s the kind of person I am. And THEN where would I be? Matt would leave me. The kids would grow up neglected. The dogs would starve. It just wouldn’t turn out pretty. I think whoever runs things in the cosmos knows what he or she is doing when it comes to me and these here comments.

I always leave blogs up on my blogroll for ages even though I know they’ve gone just incase they come back.

I wonder what the secret is of getting 50 to 150 comments for every post? perhaps they make them up?

but i’m just trying to make up for going long stretches without posting! see? the guilt, matt! you know how the guilt eats at me! it, uhm, it feels weird to comment to you here when you’re standing five feet away from me. but oh well. welcome to the future! and sorry i beat your ass so bad at scrabble. hope you stop crying soon!

I wonder if anyone noticed you not commenting at the new Trouble blog and wondered what horrible stories lie in the interstices of the few facts observed. I wonder if anyone called around to the hospitals. Or wondered what it was they said.

It’s good to see you laying down the long post once in a while. And right after some eye candy in the last post.
Give me a slug of catharsis and let’s go play scrabble.

Matt