Jollification and Tipping

Oh the irony. Every year, the Bahamas National Trust has Christmas Jollification. I had never heard of the word Jollification before I landed in the Bahamas. I attended Jollification last year. It is one huge Christmas festival and craft sale. It is held in the National Trust Retreat which is an acreage in the middle of Nassau chock-a-block full of tropical trees and plants resembling a botanical gardens mixed with a jungle. I am a member of the Bahamas National Trust, and the weekend is always a blast.

In years past, all of the booze was free, and it was all you can drink. It was really a jollification. Last year and this year, the booze is still free, but you just get a taste. Of course, you can buy more, but the unlimited tap ended.

This year, I am not in Nassau at the moment, and missing Jollification. However, I am getting the cold and winter wonderland, something that never comes to Nassau.

On other fronts:

Cosmological Cabbage is tipping again with an big increase in blog hits the past two days. Thank you.

The Tipping Point Revisited on Cosmological Cabbage

In Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point", he discusses how things catch fire and become popular with the masses. This blog has several examples of what tipped and what didn't in terms of what hit big on my blog and what didn't. Here are a few examples of topics that did and didn't go over the tipping point and garner thousands of hits on Cosmological Cabbage.


The Wedding Reception at McDonald's was my first huge hit on this blog. It tipped quickly. The venue is on West Bay Street in Nassau, at the McDonalds opposite the British Colonial Hilton Hotel.

I put up over twenty sayings of the Nassau street philosopher called Potcake Says, and it didn't tip at all. Nobody was interested.
Then came the Ghetto Prom. It tipped quickly and still is a big hit today. What gets the big hits is the Freeport girl at St. George High School who showed up to the prom in a casket.

In spite of the fact that Jett Travolta died in the Bahamas, and the attempted $25 million dollar extortion of a Freeport lawyer and ambulance attendant, and a wild trial, the Travolta case did not tip. Is John Travolta's star dimming?

Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka tipped big, tipped early, and is still a huge hit getter on this blog -- thanks to the Nassau Tribune.

This was the biggest tipping point on the blog, bringing in huge numbers. Of course it is the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

This blog is largely an experiment, and quite fascinating. The biggest surprises was the non-tipping of Travolta, and the huge tipping of Karla Homolka.

The World Discovers Cosmological Cabbage -- For Now

These are my numbers at noon today. The world has somehow virally discovered Cosmological Cabbage. What I have learned, is that these blips are transient -- here today, gone tomorrow.

However these thing are interesting. I have tenfold the hits hat I had on Sunday. Now if I wasn't in a tropical country with currency restrictions, I could monetize the blog.

For now, I just have one message: Welcome to Cosmological Cabbage.