Human Flower Project

HFP’s Ego Gets a Spanking


Today this site received far and away more visitors than any day since we started in September 2004. And it wasn’t for our analysis of Thorstein Veblen.


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Raise your sights (lower your stats)

Cher with gladiola

Photo: Celebrity screensavers



Do you like Cher? Did you have nothing better to do this Thursday than search for a photo of her hindquarters? Well, then you probably found your way to this website today. Welcome, fanny-mongers, all 70,000 of you!

We noticed first thing this morning the site was slow; getting onto the interior workings was nigh impossible. The server must be down, we figured. But when we contacted our webhost wiz she informed us that, no. There had just been a lot of traffic on a link entitled “What’s on Cher’s Backside?”

Quite a lot, as in one for every time we’ve heard “I Got You Babe,” and a whole helluva lot more than we get on normal days here.

People, where have you been? That post’s been up since 2006. Get with it! Or perhaps we should say, “Snap out of it!”

The HFP entry is, of course, a terse but witty exploration of floral tattoos, of which the former Miss Sarkisian has several, including a large bouquet inked across both her (lower) cheeks. We’d toiled to find a fine photo, as usual, linking back to the site where we’d spotted it, which now will remain unidentified in the belated interest of propriety. (We’ve also taken our own link down for now, just to be annoying.)

How did this happen? In the build up to Oscar night, there’s an inordinate interest in drop-dead celebrity-wear and blahblahblah…link-link-link. Somebody happened on that photo and popped HFP onto MSN. Cher did win the Oscar in 1987, you may remember, wearing a barely beaded Bob Mackie number. What does that have to do with flowers? Nothing.

So we who out of dumb vanity have enjoyed keeping track of our stats wind up today with as much traffic as Victoria’s Secret, and it’s obviously not due to four and a half years of thought and sparkling prose.

This news had brought us down a notch, which puts us that much closer to the rest of you fanny mongers.

“You like me! You really Like Me!”  No. You like Cher’s butt.


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Comments

Look at it this way:  They came for the photos but maybe they stayed for the articles.  Isn’t that how Hef made his fortune?

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02/26 at 07:46 AM

Dear Ross,

Love hearing from you. Big “maybe” on that!

In 56 years this is the first time anyone’s taken note of our Hugh Hefnerness. Better than a tattoo. You made my day…

Love,
Julie

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