Ooooh, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary!
Wow, one whole year of Sonny Drysdale Presents!
And they said it would never last.
Actually, I was the one who said it would never last. One year ago today, I was visiting Kid Dork's blog and after having read something about Bizarro Superman versus Bizarro Batman, I just had to respond. But when I tried to leave a rebuttal, I was told I had to be a registered blogger in order to post comments.
And that whole issue of who was better - Supe's or Picard was just so important that I registered and found myself the owner of my own blog. And not knowing what to do with it. To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as cool enough to host my own blog. Oh, sure leaving one-line smartass comments on someone else's blog, that comes easy. But coming up with something interesting to say on a daily basis, now that's hard. And some day I just might try to do it.
It all started innocently enough, I left my comment re: Kirk vs the Dark Knight on Kid Dork's site and thought that would be the end of it. I didn't really have anything to say on my own blog.
But the next day, Don Knotts died. Well shit, I had to say something.
And the day after that Darrin McGavin died. He stalks the night nevermore.
And that very same weekened Dennis ("McCloud") Weaver died. Within a matter of days, three television icons had died. And their first names all started with the letter 'D' - well, how could I let that one slip by.
And then no one famous died for few days so I made up an obituary for Howard ("Howie") Engelman, the inventor of the concept of slicing egg-salad sandwiches on a diagonal rather than the traditional straight cut. Howie won a Nobel Prize in catering for that groundbreaking innovation. Oh, I made up Howie too.
And that's when it occured to me, you know - I'm starting to like this blogging stuff. This is kinda fun. So I had business cards printed up, began getting my blog name out there in print with some well-placed mentions in ARTscape Magazine. And then Butch at Alt-London linked up to this site. Dan Brown and Jennifer O'Brien mentioned it at the Free Press web-site - and shortly after that offers for advertising started to come in. I didn't accept any (as you may have noticed,) because I don't want The Man dictating to me what I can and can't blog about. Or telling me how to write. Or that I can't grammatically end a sentence with a word like 'about.'
And just as well, because if I did accept advertiser's dollars, they would expect me to blog about their products and services. And I just can't do that. I can't be a shill. I have to blog about the things that are important to me.
Remember the time I blogged about that dead squirrel who laid at the side of the road for weeks until I finally scooped him up with a shovel? Or that time I blogged about James Looney's To-Do List? That was sooo cool. And the time I blogged about the inherent beauty to be found in pulling out a thick pad of dryer-lint from the lint trap?
Wow, memories. ... We sure did have some crazy times, didn't we?
Well, there's no reason that has to end just because I got through an entire year. Seventy-four posted blogs, incidently. That's about 62 more than my number of legitimate actually-published articles for last 12 months.
At this time, I would appreciate it if we could all bow out heads and give thanks and reflect a little upon what each of us might have learned here at SonnyDrysdalePresents.
.... well, how to cut egg-salad sandwiches on a diagonal would be one thing. .... So would never ending a sentence with a word like "about" because it's a prepositon or an adverb or something.
Keep those cards and letters coming. And thanks for visiting.
And they said it would never last.
Actually, I was the one who said it would never last. One year ago today, I was visiting Kid Dork's blog and after having read something about Bizarro Superman versus Bizarro Batman, I just had to respond. But when I tried to leave a rebuttal, I was told I had to be a registered blogger in order to post comments.
And that whole issue of who was better - Supe's or Picard was just so important that I registered and found myself the owner of my own blog. And not knowing what to do with it. To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as cool enough to host my own blog. Oh, sure leaving one-line smartass comments on someone else's blog, that comes easy. But coming up with something interesting to say on a daily basis, now that's hard. And some day I just might try to do it.
It all started innocently enough, I left my comment re: Kirk vs the Dark Knight on Kid Dork's site and thought that would be the end of it. I didn't really have anything to say on my own blog.
But the next day, Don Knotts died. Well shit, I had to say something.
And the day after that Darrin McGavin died. He stalks the night nevermore.
And that very same weekened Dennis ("McCloud") Weaver died. Within a matter of days, three television icons had died. And their first names all started with the letter 'D' - well, how could I let that one slip by.
And then no one famous died for few days so I made up an obituary for Howard ("Howie") Engelman, the inventor of the concept of slicing egg-salad sandwiches on a diagonal rather than the traditional straight cut. Howie won a Nobel Prize in catering for that groundbreaking innovation. Oh, I made up Howie too.
And that's when it occured to me, you know - I'm starting to like this blogging stuff. This is kinda fun. So I had business cards printed up, began getting my blog name out there in print with some well-placed mentions in ARTscape Magazine. And then Butch at Alt-London linked up to this site. Dan Brown and Jennifer O'Brien mentioned it at the Free Press web-site - and shortly after that offers for advertising started to come in. I didn't accept any (as you may have noticed,) because I don't want The Man dictating to me what I can and can't blog about. Or telling me how to write. Or that I can't grammatically end a sentence with a word like 'about.'
And just as well, because if I did accept advertiser's dollars, they would expect me to blog about their products and services. And I just can't do that. I can't be a shill. I have to blog about the things that are important to me.
Remember the time I blogged about that dead squirrel who laid at the side of the road for weeks until I finally scooped him up with a shovel? Or that time I blogged about James Looney's To-Do List? That was sooo cool. And the time I blogged about the inherent beauty to be found in pulling out a thick pad of dryer-lint from the lint trap?
Wow, memories. ... We sure did have some crazy times, didn't we?
Well, there's no reason that has to end just because I got through an entire year. Seventy-four posted blogs, incidently. That's about 62 more than my number of legitimate actually-published articles for last 12 months.
At this time, I would appreciate it if we could all bow out heads and give thanks and reflect a little upon what each of us might have learned here at SonnyDrysdalePresents.
.... well, how to cut egg-salad sandwiches on a diagonal would be one thing. .... So would never ending a sentence with a word like "about" because it's a prepositon or an adverb or something.
Keep those cards and letters coming. And thanks for visiting.
posted by Sonny Drysdale at 2:53 AM
6 Comments:
Congratulations, Sonny! One year old! And you didn't break the Innernet! Here's to many more years of in depth conversation on Don Knotts and that old slaphead Picard!.
Thanks KD - and of course, I owe it all to you. Take a bow, ol' sport! (or the blame, whatever the case may be.)
I think you should branch out into hats, T-shirts and other assorted swag such as keychains and matches.
Congratulations, Mr. Drysdale!
Hook up with Google AdSense and you get so much a click from your readers.
Works out to be a few hundred bucks a month, depending on the traffic to your site. Pin money to spend in a creative city.
Tonight I'm blowing out a candle for your first blogbirthday, Sonny. Kudos on making it through a whole year!
I took a stroll down memory lane and randomly selected your post from July 31, 2006 intriguingly titled "The Not-So Secret Elephant Burial Grounds". I have to say how mildly disappointed I was to see no mention of Gord Hume or Cheryl Miller.
Let's focus a bit for Year 2, eh?
http://www.bigfinish.com/darkshadows/index.shtml
Have you seen this?
Thanks for all your kind cards and letters.
Check out the latest blog in a few days to a week.
... I've heard of those Dark Shadows tapes, KD. But I'm still working my way thru about a hundred tapes of the original series.
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