A while ago, I became fixated on a particular article ("What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage") in the New York Times for its immovable position at the top of the Times Most Emailed article. I documented this here in a series of blog entries I titled "Shamu Watch." Well, inexplicably (and mucho thanks to Erin for pointing it out to me) this Shamu essay, out of nowhere, has reappeared not only on that illustrious most e-mailed list but at the numero uno position on that list. What sort of a comeback is this? John Travolta in Pulp Fiction comeback? MJ with Bulls comeback or MJ with Wizards comeback?
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And he rode through the village announcing "Shamu is dead! Shamu is dead!" All good things eventually come to an end and so it is with the seemingly implacable Shamu essay in the New York Times. This essay is now nowhere to be found in the top ten of the NY Times Most E-mailed List. It's been a good run and we'll miss ye.
In an unprecedented development, the Shamu essay dropped out of the top 3 on the New York Times Most Emailed List. Shamu is clinging on with its fin at the number 4 spot, currently. Is this the beginning of the end?
Stay tuned.
In related news, it's good to see Maureen Dowd be relevant again with a Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense like comeback...although I have no idea what she wrote because I don't freakin' have Times Select.
Despite a few challenges throughout the week, the Shamu article viciously fought to remain at the top of the "most e-mailed list" at the New York Times. As of today, Saturday, Shamu sits proudly atop that list as people still continue to e-mail that article to others. How long will Shamu remain king? Can tomorrow's Modern Love column finally top Shamu? Stay tuned.
I started worrying because in the past 24 hours, the Shamu article at the Times was bumped to the third spot on the Most Emailed List. But she's a fighta' I tell ya, a fighta'! The Shamu article is back to the one spot! If the Da Vinci Code, Bible and Harry Potter series were all rolled into one, it'd look something like the Shamu article. I don't know what's going to top it.