One Sorry Blog

More and more folks who have no reason to lie are praising the nascent blog.

One Sorry Blog News Service

Buenos Aires – Two months after its creation, One Sorry Blog is increasingly being praised by readers with no connection to the blog that would require them to be polite and say it’s a good blog.

“I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from people who haven’t even known me for a year,” said Paul Rivas, founder of One Sorry Blog, the online magazine that publishes articles by unpaid experts in various fields, “and they all agree that One Sorry Blog is rad.”

Rivas has always maintained that there is much to like about the most exciting project he’s worked on since The Screed, a 550-page record of his adventures in Europe alongside the Life Artist Bubba Ray Robison, but was hesitant to get too excited about the cost-free and free-of-charge magazine he had accidentally created. Most of the good things he’d heard about One Sorry Blog had come from people he’s known for years, if not his entire life, and he couldn’t be sure that they weren’t just saying they liked it because of some perceived obligation to do so.

Yet in the last week, the Buenos Aires Desk of One Sorry Blog has been fielding praise left and right. Perhaps more important than the volume of compliments One Sorry Blog has been receiving of late is their diversity.

“I was catching up on One Sorry Blog the other night,” said Emily Brown, a native of some island off the coast of Massachusetts. “They’re all really good writers.”

Rivas has of course known this all along, and was on the verge of retorting, “Hey, what’d you expect?” but instead thanked Emily and explained that this was what he saw as One Sorry Blog’s purpose in a world and Internet that are overflowing with writing that no one can stand to read.

“The other day I had to wait half an hour at the doctor’s office,” said Ana Paula Bonifacino, an Argentine woman who has never shot a basketball in her life but nevertheless translates game stories and the like for the Houston Rockets’ website, “and I thought, ‘I wish I had One Sorry Blog to read right now.’”

That Bonifacino would think to read the blog at a moment when Rivas wasn’t pestering her to do so at the translation company where they work came as a pleasant surprise. Contributors to the blog are all people Rivas considers to be experts in their respective fields, and while walking to work the day after his first post on One Sorry Blog it occurred to him that people out in the world might like to read the opinions of these individuals of whom he thinks so highly. He anticipated the blog would have wide appeal, but seeing red dots on the readers map on the blog in places that he’s never had the least desire to visit has been encouraging.

Gena Mavuli, the first person from Connecticut that Rivas has ever met in his Californiacentric existence, has described the result as: “My own personal newspaper.”

Rivas believes One Sorry Blog to be unique in the world, but does not have the know-how to confirm such a suspicion. To be sure, there are thousands of online-only magazines in existence, but a simple Google search may support Rivas’s claim. There is only one “Network TV Slut” in the world, none other than Julie Nisbet of One Sorry Blog, just as there is only one set of “Notes from the Film Vanguard”. It also seems that “Gambling Is Easy”-er for One Sorry Blog’s Ace Cummins (.714 winning percentage) than any other published gambler in the world. Many a reader prepares at least one meal per week based on the content of “Eat Me”, and “Recetas magistrales” has developed a cult following among office workers in Buenos Aires.

Readers around the globe have taken notice. Except in China, where Ace Cummins confirmed that One Sorry Blog is banned. The blog has received 2600 page visits in just over two months, an average of 40 per day. Gambling Is Easy is the site’s most popular column, and the site’s traffic nearly doubles on days it is published.

“Look at the readers map,” Rivas challenged. “Check it out. All those people found One Sorry Blog worth reading.”

How exactly people from every continent but Antarctica have discovered One Sorry Blog varies. The most common search terms entered by web surfers leading them to click on One Sorry Blog have been, “Ace Rothstein”, “Antonella Barba” and “empanadas”.

One Sorry Blog has increased its initial operating budget of US$100 to US$254 by heeding Ace Cummins’ betting tips, and will use the windfall to increase storage space on wordpress.com, the site that hosts the blog. Rivas also has plans to add more globally unique columns to the site. As always, he encouraged readers to continue reading One Sorry Blog every day for health and to tell their friends and family to do the same.