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Unexpected Benefits Of Publishing Heck Of A Guy

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Leonard Cohen

One of the greatest perks of publishing Heck Of A Guy (or any other blog) is reading – and reposting, of course – the sort of comment such as the one composed by the eminently perspicacious and very kind brightnow at LeonardCohenForum The Unexpected Benefits Of Being A 1Heckofaguy Fan (The story is real, took [...]

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"I'm A Heck Of A Guy" By Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra Named Site's Official Song

December 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Music

“I’m A Heck Of A Guy” Enters Heck Of A Guy Registry Of Symbols & Emblems 1HeckOfAGuy.com is already, of course, represented in the site’s graphic by an official seal and an equally official gargoyle: And, Heck Of A Guy has an official slogan: A pastiche of posts, featuring song, dance, snappy chatter plus notes [...]

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DrHGuy Is Still Reexamining And Rereading

October 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

Yes, and here’s to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don’t even care Leonard Cohen, from “Night Comes On”

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DrHGuy Is Taking A Day Or Two Off From Blogging

October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

DrHGuy is taking  a day or two off to reassess his allegiances and re-read Michael Malone’s “Handling Sin.” He may also, as he is wont to do, recite a few A.E. Housman poems for his own amusement.

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Leonard Cohen's Birthday Stats At Heck Of A Guy

September 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Leonard Cohen

Unique Visitors To HeckOfAGuy.com The impact of Leonard Cohen’s birthday on Heck Of A Guy is self-apparent in the above graph showing “Unique Visitors”1 and the graph of Page Views2 shown below. These stats are from Google Analytics. Page Views Of HeckOfAGuy.com The graph below shows the viewings of the Leonard Cohen At 75 Birthday [...]

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baotzebao Says Nice Things About Heck Of A Guy – In Italian

August 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · HOAG Site, Leonard Cohen

International Heck Of A Guy Cohen Cabal Expands In response to Heck Of A Guy posts on the Leonard Cohen Concert in Venice, I received email from an Italian blogger reporting that he had read posts from my blog and wondered if I were the individual he had seen at the Venice show picking up [...]

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It Looks Different Because It's Being Fixed – I Hope

June 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site

Heck Of A Guy blog has experienced an intermittent, irreproducible, worsening software problem for the past several months. As part of the effort to identify the glitch, I’m eliminating some of the customized features. If the problem goes away, I can reintroduce those features one at a time to determine which of them is the [...]

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Vacation Begins – Let The Wild Rumpus Commence

May 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Friends-Family, HOAG Site

Hilton Headed I am leaving today to  join the usual suspects, Duke of Derm, Hippie with Tiara, Princess of Peds, and Lord of Leisure, in Hilton Head for the 2009 edition of  The Annual DrHGuy et al Vacation and Heck Of  A Guy Blogging Break. Over the next two weeks, Heck Of A Guy and [...]

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Warning – Improvements Begin At Heck Of A Guy

April 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site

Big Invisible Changes Heck Of A Guy is undergoing some fundamental infrastructure changes to prevent the recurrence of some problems that have knocked the site offline in the past. If all goes as it should,  the process and the improvements will be invisible to viewers.   There is, however, the risk of delays in new postings, [...]

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The Feed Is The Fix

April 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site

Feeds Are Good For You As those who subscribe to email notifications of new posts already know, the software that provided that automatic service has gone over to the dark side1 and has been eliminated. Sharp-eyed obsessives may also have noticed the large orange “Subscribe” button that graced the left sidebar has disappeared, the “Categories” [...]

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