My 2013 was generally bad on a personal level, seeing that I had a car accident and some other crappy stuff, but 2014 is looking up!! I’d like to thank each and every one of my readers (all ten of them!) for making ‘An American View’ have a solid year already! Last summer the site hit 100,000 page views, followed by two of my best months EVER in November and December. That was amazing considering the entire first year of this site’s existence raked in a whopping 1,000 views and very little attention. I’ve slowly been making a few bucks with Word Ads, and have had time to *attempt* a sister site and dabble in podcasting a bit. Hopefully I’ll have some surprises up my sleeve this year, and you guys will keep motivating me to keep writing bad reviews of stuff nobody cares about 😛

anyhow, the reason why I called you here is that I just checked my stats to find out that ….