Many Thanks

So yesterday/today was/is the my fourth anniversary of my first test-post and first true-post respectively.

Four years of endless kindnesses. Camaraderie. Pie fights. Tantrums.

Four years of me not saying "thank you" nearly often enough. Longer than I was in high school, and with better attendance. Long enough to see YouTube come into being, grow like kudzu, get sold for a mint, and then start its inevitable decline into usage violation and bad emo "fan tribute" video suckage purgatory.

Many thanks to the inimitable Blue Gal for her wonderful video, the kind thoughts of her co-conspirators, and all of the well-wishing coming in from Shakesville, the GNB, Crooks & Liars, Fighting Liberals and many others.

After all this time and nearly 2,000 posts, I still hold out hope that I will one day grow into my clown shoes. Either that, or get pirate-rich doing blog aggregation selling Collateralized Bloggage Instruments to 3rd-generation, trustifarian Weebles with more dollars than sense.

Either way, it has been a fine ride so far.

And so what will the next year hold?

Well when you take the vastly entertaining antics of our local elected officials from Chairman Mare and his pet aldermen on down...

And you add in the fact that:

A) While Chicago now bestrides the political universe,

B) Chicago also seems mysteriously bereft of local writers who know how to laugh while they swing the editorial axe.

let's just say I'm thinking hard about adding some local, insider content to the mix.

And finally, for those who are curious about how I scored this sweet, sweet gig, it turns out,

someone filmed the whole transaction.


With sincerest thanks and gratitude.

driftglass