Who's reading? Evidently, everyone.

I was once worried that no one would read the NaturalBlog, but now it seems I've stumbled onto the opposite problem -- everybody's reading, and everybody's taking my jokes.

Witness:

• The scalawags at Barstool Sports (a rag you can pick up free in Boston) jumped on my dislike of fitness celebrity John Basedow, in one of their weekly e-mails. Alert reader Sebastian Dangerfield was kind enough to flag the plagiarism. I had them (and their bad spelling) scooped by about a month.


• Need to figure out which bowl game to make fun of? Read the NaturalBlog from last Thursday, as this sports writer apparently did, before writing his column for Monday.


• Even the old grey lady is in on the act. See my November news roundup on declining values in Maine, versus this remarkably well-written, well-reported story that appeared in The New York Times Christmas day.

NaturalBlog only hopes that Jessica will take the hint, and actually start calling.