Saturday, July 24, 2004
Got Me on My Mi-yiyiyi-yiyiyind….
Could it only have been a year ago that it had already been a year ago? Time having spiraled me forward to the here and now, I find myself celebrating a second blogiversary. Many of those who read this site these days were reading it back then too; some others of you, valued all the more for your recent arrival, may not have had a chance to read all the 363 masterwanks I’ve ejected over the past year. It’s barely 50 percent of my output from my first year, and works out to fewer than one a day. But on the other hand, I’ve been a lot more longwinded, so I don’t know if I actually wrote any less.
What I do know for sure is that I’ve enjoyed it tremendously. I’ve met wonderful people and had a great time roaming around blogsylvania. By the same token, I’ve really enjoyed writing all this chazzerai, incorporating creativity into my daily life and having our little attenuated conversations about whatever I wound up thinking worth posting at that time. I have a world of respect for anybody who reads this site, but the ones of you I’ve been privileged to get to know personally or via a web-based persona, have been uniformly good people who’ve made my life better and more interesting.
Last year I selected my 40 favorite posts from the prior year and re-linked to them. And, that’s right you guessed it, I’m doing it again. I’m just that boring. I actually have scads of stuff stocked up for posting later but the time is ripe for me to look back at what I’ve already written. I found the exercise to be illuminating and entertaining – a cross between reading my own diary and a short subjects film festival. Some months seemed pretty thin to me, and some were just jampaqued full of stuff I enjoyed re-reading. And in the end that was my main criterion in making these selections – that I enjoyed re-reading it.
Some of these essays have strong personal connections for me. Some of the others I left out are even more meaningful to me but they didn’t make the cut because I didn’t enjoy re-reading them as much. We’ve got a healthy cross-section of hut genres, but a common thread of me liking it. If your favorite post, oh god as if you would even have one, but if a post you remember in particular thinking didn’t specifically suck out loud, if such a post as that is not on this list and you wonder why, well, there’s no reason at all, it’s arbitrary my good people, like genetics and network programming. But I’d love to hear which ones you might think are missing. Not like it’ll do you any good, but, you know, for kicks.
Speaking of kicks, I’m out of here. I will be spending something more than the next two weeks secluded in a monastery high in the azure Caucasian mountains, cultivating daikon and mastering my inner dragon. I will, furthermore, be without computer, but I will be plugged in to the great eternal motherboard in your heart. If you need me, I am already there for you. Just don’t ask me to do much, because I’m pretty much useless. Showing up really took it out of me. Now pace yourself with the following list – don’t take on too much at once. Lift from the knees. No, your own knees. Oh suit yourself. See you when I’m back.
1. Mob Mentality
2. Easy Date
3. Pool Cue
4. See Food
5. Moore or Less
6. Philo Style
7. Losing Face
8. Getting Carded
9. Final Blast of the Shofar
10. Repetitive Notion Disorder
11. One Coin, Countless Sides
12. Things You Really Shouldn’t Read
13. Child’s Play
14. BX Stands for Bonkers
15. Our Lady of Refuse
16. Going Underground and Coming Out
17. Let’s Get Cracking
18. The Dark Party
19. Puddlecracker
20. Oiled and Ready
21. Get Me to the Matri-Shack
22. You Can’t Spell Constitution
23. Backdoor Bette
24. Winohunt
25. Flaking Out
26. Katrina Rides the Bus Part I – Part II (okay it’s sort of cheating but really it’s one story in two posts, so sue me why don’t you)
27. Pollenation
28. Perpendicular Parking
29. Leg Man
30. Eat My Jack
31. Basket Cases
32. There May Not Be an I In Team....
33. The Limits of Friendship
34. Rites of Spring
35. Hump Seat Rider
36. Microbusted (A Cosmo Adventure)
37. Quartermaster
38. Back Off the Bus
39. Meeting the Neighbors
40. Take Notes
