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Secondly, to the good and great people who read this blog: a very merry Christmas to all of you. To all those who have read, commented and participated in this blog, you have my many great thanks.
As of this post, this is my 200th post, and the blog has a little over 34,500 hits since starting here on WordPress in February of this year. My dashboard tells me that 1,637 comments have been left on 1,416 and Counting since it’s inception (probably half of those are mine, you know). In comparison to many other blogs on the great and good Internets, 34,500 hits and almost 1,700 comments is diddly-squat, but I have to tell you that I could never have imagined that I would ever reach that number some months ago when I started.
To the many people who have stopped by, commented, read, linked me on your own blogs and others’ blogs: you have given me an already fantastic present — the gift of your valuable time, which is so very much appreciated.
I don’t know that I could repay the favor to all of you, but I do hope all of you have a very safe and merry Christmas, Hannukah, or whatever holiday you may celebrate at this time of the year.
In the meantime, I’m working on Armageddon but the epic, arrogant, egotistical Bay-ness deserves the full, healthy workup, so expect that tomorrow night, and I’ll catch all y’all on Saturday.
Oh, Armageddon! So bad, but shit gets blowed up REAL GOOD so I just watch those parts.
Oh, Armageddon! So bad, but shit gets blowed up REAL GOOD so I just watch those parts.
Oh, I know, right?! It had been a while since I had watched it. I irrationally love it for Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare but it’s not good.
Fire in space? Makes sense to me!
We wouldn’t comment here if the content wasn’t inspiring!
Also, Fast and the Furious and Armaggedon? Back to back? Jesus, that’s like a DVD lobotomy.
And a merry Christmas to you too!
Merry Christmas to you too! Any good gifts?
And, uh, good luck with Armageddon… (Allison goes and hides behind the couch with her Holiday Chocolate).
andrew, I’m so late, but Merry Christmas to you and Tracie. If you think Armageddon and TFATF back to back are lobotomizing, try Armageddon, TFATF and Gigli. Yup.
Allison, I got a lot of cooking related things which is what I wanted! I even got a nifty dessert fondue set and a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles cookbook, which is amazing and also, every recipe in there costs an arm and a leg to make, but whoo!
ZOMG, did someone say ANTHONY BOURDAIN?! I squeed like a little girl when I saw a blurb he did at the library today. And my friend Kevin was a little… unnerved, to say the least. But I don’t think he gets the Travel Channel.
I just got chocolate in the food department/the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners. All very lovely. The rest of my presents were sweaters and books. Nice books, including “Barnum Museum” which has the short story “The Illusionist” was based off of.
ZOMG, did someone say ANTHONY BOURDAIN?! I squeed like a little girl when I saw a blurb he did at the library today.
Oh, I love him. And if you’re into cooking, you will LOVE his Les Halles cookbook – it’s just like him, snarky and full of good things.
Chocolate is always good! And sweaters and books, hey, those are awesome too. Ooh, I’ve never read Barnum Museum, I may have to look that one up!
thank you for your sharing information.
So far, I recommend Barnum Museum (I’m about halfway through) but Eisenheim the Illusionist is a lot like: “Hi, this is The Illusionist, minus plot.”
It’s a lot of existential bru ha ha, throughout.