Who would have thought that our Keri Mitchell, driving to the office one day last week, would have had such an impact on the blogosphere?

Keri’s effort, of course, was her Southern fried Hillary post, and it gave us our 15 minutes of bloggy fame. By the time the post had worked its way through the cyber ether in the run-up to Tuesday’s Democratic primary, we had been mentioned in an Atlantic magazine blog and the Daily Kos, perhaps the ultimate Democratic blog in the country. Along the way, we almost quadrupled our record for the most visitors in a day.

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That’s heady stuff for us, accustomed as we are to writing about the things that the national and local media don’t consider important enough to notice. (Hence my reference to the "nice little blog," a term favored by a neighborhood resident who is much more famous than anyone here would ever hope to be, and who has referred to the Advocate that way in the past.)

In fact, we actually debated whether we should mention this — and, really, the only reason we’re doing it is that the blog expert I asked thought I was crazy to even ask the question. "You made the Daily Kos, for crying out loud," he said. "It’s not like everyone does that."