That headline is not a misprint. And I’m still wondering how it all happened. But trust me… I’m not complaining. Not one iota.
It’s Saturday morning – maybe 2 a.m. – and I can’t sleep. When I’m feeling low, my insomnia kicks in, and that’s never a good thing. So after playing a game of QRANK on Facebook (6,000 points, decent run), and updating the statistics for the National Basketball League of Canada (the Summerside Storm defeated the Saint John Mill Rats 112-98, to go 2-0 on the first week of play), I went to check my statistics page, the data page that monitors the hits and stat-metrics on my blog page.
And for some reason, the stats were completely off the chain. Four times as many readers and blog hits as I’ve had in a long time.
And the page that was drawing the monster traffic? Believe it or not, it was a blog post I wrote about a month ago, about TV shows with the wackiest neighbors. You know… those screwball comedies where the next door neighbor is a storybook family, or a pair of rappers from the ‘hood, or a bunch of oil-rich hillbillies from the Ozarks. I wrote the blog post, it got a few comments, and that was it.
So why was this blog post generating so much interest – starting, at all times, on a Friday night? Was it linked to a spambot? Did someone on the show die and the only information they could find was on my blog post? Is my page being used by some Internet group as part of an elaborate Rickroll?
Chuck’s gotta investigate.
I did some digging, and found out that the majority of the hits were traced back to a Twitter link. A little more investigation – and look what I found.
I found out it was actually traced to this Twitter tweet.
That’s right. One of the actresses on the TV show Hi Honey, I’m Home! was actress Julie Benz. Yes, the same Julie Benz who appeared in several TV shows, including Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, No Ordinary Family and the current A Gifted Man. On Hi Honey, I’m Home!, she played Babs Nielsen, the daughter of the “only appears on television” Nielsen family, who have left the television world and are now living in the real world. Yeah, it’s like a reverse Pleasantville, if you remember that Tobey Maguire / Reese Witherspoon fantasy drama.
Apparently she must have done a Google search and, lo and behold, came up with my blog post about her old TV show. And then she tweeted it all over here and there. Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
Much thanks to actress Julie Benz, and thanks for taking my dreary black-and-white day and giving it a splash of living color.
Chuck The Writer 
That’s great! Now, see if you can book her for an interview!
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She was also in “Roswell” (the tv show, not the place). And congratulations on the Star Sighting.
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Don’t you just love those totally unexpected wonderful little happenings that produce huge kool-aid type smiles?!
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Just interviewed her a couple of weeks ago; she’s in the female lead in one of the first “TNT Mystery Movie Night” offerings, “Ricochet” (on Nov. 30), and she’s a total delight as an interviewee.
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Oops … make that, “she’s the female lead.” That’s basically what happened to me when I found myself standing next to her during ABC’s summer 2010 press convention, as she was starting the series “No Ordinary Family.” Being an intense “Dexter” fan, I lost all rational thought.
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