Friday, July 21, 2006

Top 40 from the Third Quartile

As the end of July creeps up on me like that pair of cheap boxers I wear the day before I do laundry, it occurs to me that I skipped my blogiversary last year.  I like to do a bit of retrospection every so often - to check back and see where I’ve been, whether it’s anywhere worth having gone and that sort of thing.  The first couple of years I was blogging, I memorialized this process with a “top 40” list - my favorite posts from the prior year.  Not the best ones, necessarily, or the ones that are most interesting or artistic or crap like that - just my favorite ones, the ones I most enjoyed rediscovering.  But in 2005, there was a lot going on and I just didn’t get around to it. 

Well screw that noise: I’ve gotten around to it now.  I’ll work up 2005-06 soon enough, but since my computer room is going to be a toddler’s bedroom for the next week while Delia and crew are visiting, I’m going to leave this for ya: here’s my favorite posts from my third year of blogging.  They’re old enough now to qualify as antiques, as far as the internet is concerned.  As for which: I notice that several of these posts got a bit scrambled after the various site changes I’ve had over the interim - many of the punctuation marks got turned into question marks.  I sort of wish I had time to fix them all, but I also sort of like the constant interrogatories.  They’re always asking you about what you’re reading.  As for which:

Chuckles’ Favorite Posts: August 2004 through July 2005!

circles from circles
underpass part II
underpass
burnin’ down the house
blue (heron) monday
the rock garden
good for the gander
my fabulous career
the look of love
memorable
repertory
glass all empty
ball boy
natal felicitations
see the thunder
curse of the oma
pt reyes in 9000 words
wednesday morning ride
red
a game of wenches
the harder they come
does this bug you?
stubs
death of the ghoul
light me up
shiver me timbers
tradition, turnips, and the meaning of life
a hug goodbye
tmi
the evanescence of coincidental holiness
land of the lost
warm up gear
capacious
this is your brain on law
suck the bone
music man
gnop
straight to the heart of things
little shop of fetishes
don’t toy with me

Don’t read them all in once place, and do please have a nice weekend.  I guarandamntee you that I will. 

i don’t know if i could come up with a list of my top 40 entries of all time much less every single year. impressive, my friend but then that’s the kind of guy you are.

happy tuesday.

I will try to post this comment once again, knowing that there is some kind of secret security thing that I need to sneak by ... This is the kind of activity that a cushy government job breeds.  You re-read all your old posts, maybe two or three or ten times, devise a rating scale and score each of them, then choose the top 40. After you’ve done that, you get your “DENIED” stamp out and take care of that stack of apps you have on your desk by stamping each one without reading it.  Work done.  Blogging done.  Maybe you even have time to ensd out some e-mail.

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