Monday, July 23, 2007
Quintriviad: Five Years Blogging and This Is All I Have to Show For It
What, are you still here? For god’s sake, man, it’s been a full five years! That’s half a decade, or 1.25 olympiads, or - here’s a weird one - nearly 1/9th of my whole freaking life! What’s been five years, you ask, mumbling as you check to see if you’re trailing toilet paper or have an embarassing stain on your undercarriage? Five long blogging years, it’s been, my friends. Or you could just call them “blonging” years - but even I wouldn’t understand you. As if that’s ever stopped any of us before.
But this blog began on July 24, 2002, and for better or - typically - worse, it’s still here today. Thanks for sticking with me, those of you who did. As for the rest of you, you’ve broken my heart. And I love ya for it.
Speaking of not having been stopped, and before, and blonging and breaking and loving, I wish now to celebrate this auspicious date as I have traditionally done in years past - by the humiliating abnegation of referencing my 40 favorite posts from the year prior to the year just past. That’s right, I’m insufficiently objective to pick out faves from ‘06 to ‘07, but at least I’m able to do it from ‘05 to ‘06. And here they are, chosen without method or even madness, and listed chronologically so nobody’s feelings get hurt. Hope you enjoy them (again). It’s strange how much work it takes to come up with these lists when I barely have to write anything for them!
Belief
By Next Week Maybe I’ll Find My Tongue
Beaten Up From the Inside
The Gauntlet
Ground Floor
S.Y.S. - A Poem That Forced The Issue
Wide Smiles
NZB and Me
Closeted Doors
looking back: last weekend, before it’s too late; PLUS SWEET AND HOT CARROTS AND ZUKES
Life Doesn’t Just Give You Lemons
Flooded with Memories - Plus a Genuine Ghost
The Mail Man
The Picnic
The Hillel You Say
Homeward Bound: The Hard Way
The Dog Who Flew
Meatwalker
The Long View
Sweeping Up After Earth Day
The Night Uncle Gene Saved Christmas
Knowledge is Flower
Snatching Victory
A Little Joke, and then a much longer and less funny one
K.I.S.S. - Simplistic Syrup
The Miraculous Regenerating Monkeybutt
Close Focus and Fine Tuning
From Beeing to Uncertainty
LAudamus
Fritz
Salad Days and Bonzo Nights: Revenge of the Recipe Corner
Another Unbeatable Weekend
Eat Dessert First: Pieman Comes to Brunch
Spidey and the Good Pot
Staying at Home
Conversatin’
Random Weirdness - In Here and Out There
Onioning
Standing Sentry
King of the Mountain
... so there you have it, a full year of my life, selectively reiterated. Doesn’t seem so much, now that I look back on it. Or, put another way, it seems like entirely too much altogether. I guess that’s the magic of the internet. That, and meeting you-all. Now skedaddle your shavetails on home, try to stay out of trouble, and I’ll catch you up again here next year!
