bookofjoe in the Wall Street Journal? Kinda sorta...

Look at the list above, from my current statistics.

What do you see?

Number 9 is online.wsj.com, if I am not mistaken.

That's the Wall Street Journal online.

I clicked on it and was taken to this page, featuring an article in today's paper.

Hmmm, said I: I'm not mentioned in the article nor have I ever featured Valentino or his work, as best I can recall.

I scrolled down to the bottom of the piece and found this:

So I clicked on "The Handbag Effect..." and was taken here:

Clicking on "The Handbag Effect..." in the upper right took me to my post of last Friday, May 11, 2007.

My question is this: why didn't the Wall Street Journal simply link to Vanessa Friedman's May 7, 2007 Financial Times article as I did and eliminate the middleman, namely moi?

Seems so much simpler.

But I guess my mystification is part and parcel of why I'm down here in steerage while Ms. Friedman and her ilk sip champagne at the captain's table.

But I will note with interest that this sort of thing is happening just a little more frequently these days than, say, a year ago... I wonder if bookofjoe is gradually accelerating to the point of achieving escape velocity.

Which, of course, leads to the inevitable next question: escape from what?

And the next: towards what?

I will keep you posted as I bumble along....