with karate i'll kick your ass

by mg at 09:44 PM on August 12, 2002

I saw something yesterday that really got me thinking about this whole blogging thing again. I’ve been at this for coming near on two years now. Isn’t it strange, but as much as I complain about it, it feels like I only started yesterday. And, come to think of it, two years is a short time, practically.

But in Internet Time (which surpasses even New York Hot Spot Time in it’s ratio of actual time to perceived time) two years is practically a geological epoch.

Yep, it’ll be two years come October, which seems like an awful long way off now, is less than two months away, and I’ve already been back at work for that long now. It seems like I’ve been back to work forever (I think everyone feels that way about their jobs), but the calendar and my bank account would disagree. Two months is a very short time, and if I’d been planning on throwing a party to celebrate the event, I’d need to be on the ball with that already. But I’m not going to throw a party; in fact, I probably wont even commemorate the date at all.

Why won’t I? Well, September 11th is just a few short weeks before, and even though a year has passed, I feel very uncertain about celebrating anything, much less something so trivial as a weblog.

Not to mention there have been plenty weblogs around even longer than venerable old Bad Samaritan. I met several of them at Blog Party last week, and I’d link them (not to mention all the other cool people I met) if I weren’t so darn tired.

Plus, really, who wants all the hassle of planning a party?

What I may commemorate, however, or at least mention now, is that sometime this week Bad Samaritan will be receiving it’s 500,000 unique visit (according to Site Meter, which is, undoubtedly, off a bit). It took 16 months to get the first 250K, but only another 6 to get the net 250K. I suppose I should be proud of that, and, damnit, I am. Some of you bastards may have more comments, or have been around longer, or have gotten interviewed by Wired, but I get thousands of people coming here every week looking for priests spanking boys, amongst other things.

Anyway, the whole reason I wanted to talk about blogging is because I saw a dude at the free Sonic Youth concert in Central Park yesterday wearing a Blogger T-shirt. I didn't end up talking about that at all. But, I will tell you this: I didn’t know whether to walk up to him and hug him, slap him, or ask for his URL and politely walk away. I did none of the above.