You’ve either got it or you don’t

Everyone loves an end of year countdown.  A shameful number of best/most/worst  “celebrity” lists of breakups, makeups, shakeups, and deaths lure me in with perky cohosts and promises of amusement in two minute segments.  This year I’m boycotting any countdown that features John, Kate, or their eight.  Or Octomom.  Or Susan Boyle’s singing/makeover/make back under.  Or the Farrah vs. Micheal death match.  Or Oprah’s retirement.  Or Rhianna’s bad decisions.  Or Tiger’s wood.

In keeping with this fine journalistic tradition, I present an end of year countdown tribute to my most unpopular blog posts of 2009, as determined by total number of views.  Or lack thereof.  What makes them so unpopular?  Suspiciously, every finalist except one was posted in March 2009.   Spring fever?  March madness?  New blog blues?

Count down the dirty dozen to the lowest of the low, posta non grata, the #1 www.myrunshorts.com reject of 2009:

12.  It’s All About the Jacket.  The question is, am I brave enough to wear it?

11.  Dressed for Success.  I have a modest wish list.  #1, in-suite laundry.

10.  The long and the short of it.  Need an excuse for your lackluster times?  Blame your knuckle-dragging ancestors. 

9.  Me vs The Machine.  On the road to nowhere.  Subtitle: Yes, treadmilling is a form of torture.

8.  Running is its Own Reward?  Will run for cookies.

7.  Roam if you want to.  Do I drink more than my fair share of Gatorade?

6.  Stop.  Rewind.  Erase.  The scariest 4.5 minute video I’ve ever watched. 

5.  Who Let The Dogs Out?  Encounters with runner-eating four-legged furballs.

4.  The Hills Are Alive.  Don’t break my heart.  My achy breaky heart.

3.  Diagnosis: Old Age.  It’s true, I’m not 16 anymore.  Is there a pill for that? 

2.  Feed Me Seymour.  Does this marathon make me look fat?

And the winner, by unpopular vote, is …..

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1.  Darkness my old friend.  I’m amused that a post with such a friendly title is shunned above all others.

Title Reference:  The Veronicas – Popular.  From the album Hook Me Up.  2008.