15 years of blogging
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I happened to notice this morning that today marks the 15th anniversary of when I started blogging at LGM. This is, if our treacherous archives are accurate, my 4,984th post on this site.
Recently a commenter came up to me with tears in his eyes, and asked me, “Sir, how do you do it?”
It’s a good question, and none the worse for this exchange being fabricated (give me a break, I’m doing ethnography). The answer is that it’s really fun to write on a daily basis for an intelligent, engaged audience made up of roughly like-minded, but still intellectually diverse commenters.
That kind of engagement makes the effort to have something to say in print, or cyber-print, more than worth it. So thank you: I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Special thanks for inspiration, in no particular order, to:
The diet industrial complex
Harry Truman
Insolent academic cheerleaders for the law school scam
Alice Goffman
An unusually handsome and talented Brazilian sock puppet
Donald Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
John Barron
Slavoj Zizek
That super cool band that you’ve probably never heard of.
The states of Texas and Florida
Spinal Tap, The Godfather (I & II), Goodfellas, Casino, The King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, The Simpsons etc etc etc
I hope your dreams are amazing.
*I’m toying with the idea of putting together a collection of 100 posts arguably worth (re)reading — a modest 2% of the total! — and offering it as an e-book for like three bucks. Thoughts?