No Pressure

by muaddib at 12:44 AM on October 03, 2002

I am a bad bad samaritan - I haven't posted in an age and a day. But how can I not post on the momentous occasion of bad samaritan's second anniversary?!

Blogging, as we all know, is hard, hard work. We love it, or we wouldn't do it, but that doesn't change the fact that it can get to where it really wears you down. I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly understood why mg has been given to thoughts of just closing the site down on more than one occasion in the year and a half or so I've been coming here.

I'm certainly glad he's never given in to that impulse. This site is unique (note I did not say "one of the more unique", a perversion of the language of truly horrific proportions; I blame John Madden). Truly unique: No other like it. I don't say that just because the collection of occasional authors mg has collected to contribute here is so diverse, though that's part of it.

This site is shot through with mg's personality; it has "presence." kd once commented that it was tough to come post over here becuase, unlike her own site, you had to be "on" on bad samaritan. It's a daunting prospect sometimes. It certainly speaks to why I don't feel up to the challenge nearly often enough.

One never knows what one will get when one clicks over to bs. That's one of the reasons it's stayed fresh and interesting to me for as long as it has. It's certainly why I make a point of wandering through here pretty much every day.

bs is certainly more than a mere community. It's a thing unto itself. And in two years it has evolved into something rather different from what it once was, as anything on the Internet is prone to do. But it has maintained its mg-ness. And it is that that keeps it worth coming back to.

Congratulations, mg, on the very impressive feat of two years of continuous blogging!