So, Seanieblog is one year old. Hello, everyone, and welcome to a little reminiscence about my no-longer-so-new home on the web.
Today is the real one-year anniversary of Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat, seeing as how its first post way back on May 28th, 2003, was actually put up here by Kennyb, the nice man who designed the site. May 29th was the day I got on board, with an explanation of how the blog came to be, what it would be like, and what it wouldn’t be like. There’d be no lengthy reviews, I said at the time. (That rule didn’t last 24 hours.) There’d be no political screeds. (Broke that rule too, though I’ve pretty much readopted it at this point. Frankly, I feel like I’ve said all that I need to about where I am politically, and man, is it ever apparent that I’m not changing anybody’s minds here. Point is, if you’re really jonesing for a semi-comics blog that beats its pet political points to death on a daily basis, this is what Jim Henley is for. Ha ha, no, I kid.)
One thing I really didn’t realize was how deeply immersed in the world of comics I would become (and I’m damn sure my hosts here at All Too Flat didn’t, either–they were expecting comedy, I think, not complaints about Cyclops’s body condom), but you know what? I’m glad things have worked out the way they have. When I started this blog I don’t think I knew there was such a thing as the comics blogosphere, and at any rate, whatever there was wasn’t a fraction of the size of what there is now. I’m proud to think I played some sort of role in its expansion and solidification as a medium for the exchange of ideas over the past year. And I’m truly grateful for all the spectacular and brilliant people I’ve gotten to know through it.
As I mentioned yesterday, I haven’t been blogging very often lately, and quite frankly I hate this. Knock on wood, but it looks like my personal situation may soon change for the better and more frequent, more in-depth, less ADD-addled blogging may be in the offing. Simply put, I really want ADDTF to have a second birthday, and I’ll do my damndest to make it happen.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my blogfathers, blogmothers, and all the folks whose blogs provided inspiration in those early weeks and months–I’m both lucky and happy to consider them my friends: The Missus,
Ken Bromberg, Jim Treacher, Bill Sherman, NeilAlien, Dirk Deppey, David Allen Jones, Jim Henley, Franklin Harris, Eve Tushnet, David Allison, and Alan David Doane. Thanks also to everyone who’s joined the party since then. There are now so many terrific blogs and bloggers out there that I’m far too lazy to list them here, but that’s what the blogroll is for, no? And thank you to the pros, publishers, critics, and correspondents who’ve provided me with feedback. It’s an honor and a pleasure to hear from you.
And, of course, thank you, beautiful reader. If a blog posts on the Internet and no one visits it, does it make a difference? Thanks to you I need never know the answer to that question.
Here’s to another year.