On the ever-fruitful (and always-warped) blog of Ass Hooked Whitey, I found something so bizarre, so frightening, so extra-terrestrial... that I had to read it many, many times to believe it.

From the "Top Ten Sources" Web site comes a list of the "Top Ten Fly Fishing Blogs," and as proof of just how bad the drug problem has gotten in this country... we're #1.

Yes Undergrounders, we're #1 (not in the sense that we're effluent or anything, but in the leadership sense), which means this tiny, smalltown blog has managed to put to the wood to those nasty big city blogs and their elitist attitudes (forgetting for a moment that we're the elitists).

Dammit, I'm going to revel it in for a minute. For 60 seconds, I'll ignore the fact that this is simply some random person's "Top 10" list.

For 60 seconds, I'll ignore the reality that our traffic is a fraction of MidCurrent's or Moldy Chum's.

And - for 60 seconds – I'll forget that blogging is so new that virtually every fly fishing blog still has that "new blog" smell.

Nope, for a whole minute, let's all just sit with the idea that our little virtual fly fishing community is the best of its kind on the Internet. And then get ready to receive the Nobel Prize and the hordes of dollars, adulation and groupies which are almost certain to follow.

I'm sure it'll start any minute. I'll wait right here.

Still - coming on the heels of last night's Upper Sac Grand Slam - it's clear that megalomania is setting in at Underground World Headquarters – and that accommodating my hugely oversized ego will likely require driving to the river with my head stuck out a window. See you on the red carpet, Tom Chandler.