Yesterday marked three years since my first blog post (yes, I did indeed misspell a word in my very first post - how was that for a harbinger of things to come?). In lieu of presents, this blogger would like to request amnesty for posts never written:
Posts about the books I've recently read:
- A Changed Man (so-so)
- Special Topics In Calamity Physics (pretty good)
- The Birthdays (not bad)
- Love Is a Mix Tape (very good)
- Mission to America (not as funny - or biting - as I thought it would be)
- October 1964 (excellent)
- Then We Came to the End (very funny)
- and some other books that I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Posts about movies I've recently (and not so recently) watched:
- When We Were Kings (excellent)
- Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man in the Sand (very good)
- Transamerica (just okay)
- Word Wars (awful)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (sublime)
- From Here to Eternity (Sinatra - good, Monty Cliff - not so much)
- High Noon (perfect)
- Chinatown (close to perfect)
- Wordplay (very - four letter word for high quality? - g-o-o-d)
- Little Miss Sunshine (cute)
- A Slipping Down Life (disappointing)
- The Clash:Westway to the World (great)
- On the Waterfront (Brando's best)
- North by Northwest (good, but goofy)
- and some other films that I'm sure I'm forgetting.
I also never posted about:
- getting FiOS
- getting a DVR
- getting poison ivy for the first time
- that "eight facts" meme that two people tagged me to do
- coaching the five-year-old's soccer team this fall (more to come on that, I'm sure)
- the 25th anniversary of my first concert (06.19.82)
- this
- and a whole lot of other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Now that that's all off my chest, onward to the next three years.
Happy ann-i-versary, as they sang on The Flintstones a long time ago. Three years...it seems like such a long time ago...congrats, Mark. Keep up the great writing and the fab headlines.
Posted by: Frank | 2007.08.14 at 07:04 AM
Happy Blogiversary! And thanks for the M. Ward video link!
Posted by: Karen | 2007.08.14 at 08:15 AM
Cash is the universal gift certificate -- if you don't like it, you can always exchange it for something else. Happy blogiversary!
(and yes, I feel stupid for saying that.)
Posted by: TwoBusy | 2007.08.14 at 10:24 AM