"I wanted to say that seems like everyone is having a milestone these few weeks... is this like how there's an increase in births 9 months after a blackout?" -Syar

I had been wondering the same thing over the past month or so, as most of the blogs I read have turned 1. Any guess of what caused this blog boom in Feb/March 2005 would be just that, a guess. The most believable explanations that I've heard so far have involved older, more established blogs having lots of sex with each other.

Anyway, this very site will be turning one on April 1. I had all kinds of plans for how I would celebrate the occasion, but then I realized that the date fell on a Saturday. StatCounter, one of the top five loves of my life, tells me that Saturday is regularly the day with the least amount of visitors here. So that, combined with the fact that I can't resist the opportunity to talk about myself for several consecutive days, has prompted me to go with the three-part celebration. This here is part 1.

For the heck of it, I went through the archives of omarphillips.net to find the post(s) that had the most comments. As I went through them, I was very much surprised. I expected maybe one of the vole posts or Madlib posts to be among the most commented on. It turns out that they really aren't. Not even close. I was really surprised when I figured out which post had the most comments. It was way back on June 15th of last year, the post about my name. Or more specifically, common reactions to my name.

It should be noted that if you go back and read comments on any posts before mid-July (when I switched from Blogger to MT), comments don't have proper line breaks and are harder to read clearly.
At best, it was moderately funny. There was no Photoshop, there were no animated heads or rodents. I started going through my own favorite posts, and most of those (to be revealed in Part II) have no more than half of the comments this one received. I guess the post does have more of a "real" feel, but it's not like this site's otherwise all fiction. (I'll embelish stories occasionally, but I try to make those situations obvious.)

If I were to have guessed the top five most commented-on posts, I would have picked five posts that in actuality, got relatively few comments. I know there are a lot of factors that influence the number of comments a post gets, but I would have generally assumed that the posts that are most liked are the ones that are most commented on. In reality, that's not at all true.

Or perhaps it is, and after all this time, I continue to have no idea what you people like.

When I think of other blogs I read, in most cases, one particular post sticks out in my mind from each site. Off the top of your head, do you have a "favorite" omarphillips.net post, or a specific post that sticks in your mind? (No is an acceptable answer, by the way.) I guess I'm curious to see how the readers' favorites compare to the writer's.