I've mentioned before that my daughter recently demanded that I stop Googling Richard Grieco, but before she intervened I ran across this old post on Grubzilla. The post itself is from 2009, but a year later the blog author posted a comment asking, "Who are you and why are you Googling Richard Grieco?" He said that he was receiving at least one search hit to that post per day. That in itself might have seemed a bit surprising more than 20 years after Richard's peak in popularity, but it's even more impressive when you consider the competition. I have no idea what the online Richard Grieco landscape looked like in 2009 when that post went up on Grubzilla (or in 2010 when the author added that comment), but currently a search for Richard Grieco's name returns about 800,000 results.
In addition, this blog has only existed for 17 days and I'm already starting to get steady traffic on Richard Grieco-related search terms. I'm not ranking for the name alone, of course, but more specific searches are landing here every day.
So, I'll join the author of Grubzilla (if only to show my daughter that I'm not alone) in asking: If you arrived here by searching "Richard Grieco" or some related term, what are you looking for? Unlike that other guy, I'm not knocking you--hell, if you've read any of the rest of this blog you know that I surreptitiously watch bad old Grieco movies when I'm home alone like I was sneaking porn and it's only fiscal responsibility that's kept me from buying Booker on DVD to keep me company in my convalescence. No one's judging you here!
But do tell me...what brought you here?
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ReplyDeleteHey. I don't even know if you're still checking your blog for comments, but in case you did I decided to respond to your question of what brought me here to read your blog. Well, I was googling pics of Richard Grieco from "Tomcat: Dangerous desires" (surprise, surprise :D ) because I really love this movie and I got redirected to your blog. And I don't regret it even one bit. I still haven't read everything you wrote about him and his movies, but the bits and pieces that I did read made me laugh and feel so many different emotions. I also have uh let's say "crush" on Richard and it was from the moment I first saw him in "21 Jump Street" (which is kinda funny concidering I forced myself to watch the show only because of Johnny Depp lol :D). Then I found all the episodes of "Booker" on youtube (thankfully) and I watched it too and yeah..that's how I really got into Richard Grieco. The only thing that really annoys me is I spend hours of searching for his movies on the internet to watch them and I can never find them in good quality so I always have to watch them in the worst quality you could think of (I wish IMDB as a movie database could upload full movies instead only titles and photos and some trailers/featurettes lol). I use some torrent sites (ok I'm not proud of that, but let's face it - most of his movies I can't even find on DVD to buy lol) that as far as I know have a quite large videography uploaded but his movies are rarely on them if not at all. So I was really impressed how you found and watched so much of his movies and I'm even kinda jealous (in the good sense of course ;) ). Anyway I'm going to read your blog slowly and carefully now, so..yeah. ( Btw if you think watching '21 Jump Street' and 'Booker' is the bottom what about this - I even made an instagram account dedicated to the two tv shows lol :D And in case you wander or want to see it, it's @21jumpstreetbooker ). Greetings from a fellow Richard (and Dennis) fan and best wishes!
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