It’s that time of year again, when every blogger, YouTuber, commentator, content creator, etc., looks back wistfully at the dying year, reviewing the highs, the lows, and the creamy middles.
In the grand tradition of this blog, it’s time to review The Worst Posts of 2023.
Some clarifications and definitions are in order. By “worst,” I don’t mean qualitatively, but quantitatively. After all, in the Internet Age, how else do we judge the relative merit of something than by how many other people have gawked at it?
So it is that this list consists of posts written in 2023 with the lowest views. There were other posts that received lower views on the blog this year, but were not written in this calendar year.
To recap: I’m looking at the least-viewed posts of 2023 (as of the time of writing, on 14 December 2023). These posts could technically have some views from mid-December 2022, but I have no way of breaking down the numbers with that degree of granularity.
Every post here received four views each, so I set that as the threshold. It’s still a pretty big list!
Blah, blah, blah—on with the list!
- “SubscribeStar Saturday: Baccalaureate Service 2023” – My sermon for the 2023 baccalaureate service. Y’all are missing out—it was a good one.
- “SubscribeStar Saturday: Tinkering” – An essay about my failure to get a virtual machine working on my computer. It’s also the first of three posts from June, which was a slow month for the blog.
- “Lazy Sunday CCVI: Intergalactic Nonsense” – A Lazy Sunday about space!
- “Lazy Sunday CCVII: Stories” – Another Lazy Sunday, this time about some great short stories.
- “Lazy Sunday CCXIV: D.C., Part II” – A Lazy Sunday linking to posts about my hellish trip to Washington, D.C.
- “Open Mic Adventures LIII: ‘Andante in D major’” – A post featuring a piece from Péchés d’âge moyen, “Andante in D major“; it’s a sweet little lo-fi tune that I enjoy, with some vaguely Impressionistic shades.
- “Daylight Savings Time Ends” – A filler post following my ankle break and a particularly busy time for yours portly.
- “Open Mic Adventures LIV: ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’” – A YouTube Short of yours portly tickling the ivories.
- “New Release Out Today: ‘Leftovers‘” – This one hurt—the day my latest release debuted, no one read the post about it!
So, how about give these neglected posts some love? C’mon, you know you want to read them.
Happy New Year!
—TPP