happy belated birthday, g.o.

Despite the fact that we are expecting a child in two weeks (as sufficient an excuse for distractedness as any), I'm ashamed to admit that I missed the one-year anniversary (last week) of this here blog. Simply unacceptable.

Reading back through a year's worth of posts last night (and staying up until 3AM in doing so), I realized what an incredible year it's been. I also realized my inverse proportion between daily responsibility and posting frequency.

So, I'd like to thank those of you who have read and encouraged me from the beginning, as well as all the stragglers I gathered along the way. As a means of commemoration and compensating for the lack of production lately, here is a selection of my favorite stuff from the past year (from narcissistic nonsense to the fruit post that got over five thousand hits):

first post

a ny doctor’s office

tv

the ninja and the monkey

memories of family cars

my thoughts on music and race/culture

monkey

jewge

fruit: a risk vs. reward analysis

ikea by southwest

of men and hoops