Ayup, it's been one year, and 200 some odd thousand visitors since starting this blog..
My first post was modest, in scope if not in demeanor:
First Post!!!!!
Chris Byrne at 2/14/2005 08:53:00 AMOk folks, people have been telling me to write my own blog for two years now, so finally, here it is.
Yeah I said I'd get around to it before, but I'm lazy, what can I say.
The initial content is mostly going to be stuff I've written for other peoples blogs, and fora etc...
Suggestions, praise, worship, and deification are all welcome.
But then I started right off into the Recipes for REAL Men series, and the AnarchAngel blog was born.
In between we've had lots of guns, lots of laughs, a fatwa and a few other assorted death threats... overall I'd say a good time.
Now it's one year, and almost 600 posts later. I've added a family to my life, and now to my blog (Mel, take a bow)...
Well, it's been a hell of a year, lets hope for just as interesting this year... weeeellll maybe not QUITE so interesting, but still, just as good or better right?
Let me repeat what I said in march of LAST year, around my one MONTH blogiversary:
Let me tell you, things build up inside for a guy like me, and I have to let them out. I'm a pretty intense guy in some ways, and a pretty laid back in others. I'm easy going, I don't get angry or mad like other people do, I'm not a yeller, but I get very... forceful when Im passionate; or I get VERY sarcastic or just humorous, but it has to come out somehow.
A lot of things in this world strike me as absurd, or funny, or sad, or appalling... hell, a lot of things just strike me. I look around, I notice things... mostly I notice other people NOT noticing things, and that bugs me.
I love the free and open exchange of ideas. I love debate. I love argument. I hate PC bullshit that stifles these things. I hate when people look at conversation as a competition that has to be won. I hate that people take disagreement personally.
I want to talk about things. I want people to think about things in new and different way. I want to be contentious, and to stir people up, because then, you're actually think about things, rather than just going though the motions.
If I can do that, then maybe those things can change, or get better; or the good things may get stronger, and maybe people will give a damn a bit more. Yeah, it's corny, but if each of us, one at a time, starts changing peoples minds about things, then eventually the good guys CAN win.
If I can do that, than anything else I do won't matter, and I'll be damned happy, and consider myself damned lucky (emphasis on the damned part I think).
I feel profoundly grateful that I am able to express myself in this way; that I have both the capability, and the forum; and that I have people who want to read what I write.
Well, don't thank me boys and girls, I need to thank you.
