Time to take another look at one of our favorite subjects, the bottom feeders. Not the absolute bottom, which consists of things which get just one or two searches in a week, but the bottom of the list of terms which are searched for on a regular basis.
Here are a few interesting queries - some news-driven, some nostalgic, and some just out of the ordinary - which received four or five searches per day last week.
Does anyone else remember when ESPN showed Australian Rules Football all the time? Now this rough-and-tumble rugby cousin is hard to find in the U.S., but you can still get plenty of links on Lycos.
Bruxism is the clinical name for grinding your teeth. The disorder is often associated with anxiety, tension, and suppressed anger, and is probably popular among the cast of Survivor.
Sandy Denny was the first lady of English folk-rock, and the original lead singer for Fairport Convention back in the sixties. She later had a solo career, but died in 1977 from injuries sustained while falling down a flight of stairs.
Young actress Zooey Deschanel played the sister of the main character in last year's Almost Famous. She'll be appearing this summer in the teen comedy The New Guy.
The I Love You Virus nearly destroyed the Internet last May, when it became #3 on the Lycos 50. Now it gets only a few searches a day. Inoculate yourself against a return at the Lycos virus center.
The Las Vegas 51s are the new AAA farm team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last year, when they were affiliated with the San Diego Padres, they were called the Las Vegas Stars, but they are now named after the nearby "secret army base" Area 51, where aliens are allegedly kept by the government. Area 51 actually made the Lycos 50 a year ago.
Speaking of baseball, we found new Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina down here amongst the bottom feeders. This Baltimore-based Mussina fan wishes his hero well in New York. Funny, we couldn't find any searches for Frank Castillo, which proves that fame does not win games.
Pedro Paramo is a classic book written in 1955 by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. It is considered the first book to establish the Latin American style of magical realism, which takes a story existing in what seems to be the real world and mixes in vivid sensory images and unexpected encounters with the supernatural.
Jerry Jeff Walker is best known as the writer of "Mr. Bojangles," but despite this pop hit he's foremost a country artist. He's a grand old man of the fertile Austin, Texas music scene, and his birthday each March is cause for a big celebration down in Texas' capital city.
Last week Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan hosted Disney on Ice; this week, check out a Grand Rapids Griffins minor league hockey playoff game against the Cleveland Lumberjacks.
TOMORROW: I met her down in old New Orleans?
