On the other hand, I posted a number of things in 2007 that I thought were the bees knees, only to have them completely ignored, so here’s my top-ten list of EotG posts that should’ve caught the attention of every right-thinking denizen of the Æthernet, but for whatever reason, didn’t:

1. Meryl, Moonlight, and a Dummy: Meryl Streep does a creepy duet with a ventriloquist’s dummy in an aloha shirt. I guess I should just be thankful she didn’t pull a Wynona and boink it
2. Bad Cocktails and the Bartenders Who Mix Them: over at DrinksTV, the world’s shittiest bartenders show you how to make…um…really shitty cocktails
3. Shiftin’ With Woo Woo: a gallery of ultra-bitchin’ hotrod gearshift knobs by movie legend, Woo Woo Grabowski
4. Who Is Hoverboy?: it’s Hoverboy, scourge of Godless Canadians!
5. Cartwright Rips CBGBs: my old high-school advisor reviews the classic punk LP Live At CBGBs
6. Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s: remember 8-bit pr0n and the Bone Fone?
7. Beehives in Paradise: the retro-Exotic gals of the 1966 Mai Kai Restaurant calendar
8. Streams of Monkeys: my PCL pal splogman mashes up the Pogues and dancing chimps
9. Bally Hula!: politically-incorrect page scans from the 1935 issue of Ballyhoo Magazine
10. Think Small: a 1961 promotional brochure of VW Beetle cartoons

Okay, all you sites out there that’re looking for fresh material, get linking!

I’m nowhere near as obsessive about checking my weblog stats as I used to be, but I thought it’d be fun to compile a list of the posts that garnered the most visitors in 2007. I received almost 4.5 million page hits last year, which was definitely a huge increase over 2006. I’m not bigger than bOINGbOING yet, but I’m doing okay. Speaking of bb, I owe Mark F. a huge debt of thanks for linking here as often as he did last year. It definitely put me over the top. Thanks also to other big referrers: Coudal, The Cartoonist, Table of Malcontents (defunct)/Ectoplasmosis, and PCL.

So, without further ado, here’s my list of the 10 most-viewed Eye of the Goof posts of 2007:

1. Tony’s Hot Nuts Redux: proof positive that sleazy cheese rules teh Intarwebs
2. The 5,000 Contract Hotties of Dr. T: who doesn’t love this movie?
3. The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org: my list of free, incredibly strange film downloads
4. Gordon’s Jet Flight: a nostalgic look at a time when air travel didn’t suck
5. In Soviet Russia, Tiki Mugs You!: Stalin and Lenin go Polynesian Pop
6. Quick, the Mental Bleach!: a jaw-dropping collection of highly disturbing album covers
7. Hobo Soup for the Junkyard Soul: the attention of the blogosphere is riveted by a can of 45-year old soup
8. X-8’s 30 Years of Flipside Tribute: the best punk fanzine of all time
9. Shriner Mini Cars: in which I reveal just who’s pimping the Shriners’ tiny parade rides (post is actually from 2006, but it’s still getting tons of hits)
10. Plop!: a collection of 24 Basil Wolverton covers from Plop! Magazine

Here’s hoping I can come up with 10 equally great posts in 2008!