janam din mubarak
May 8, 2008 Bloggerating, Fluff, Happy Birthday to us, I really dig my readers, Self-Referential Stuff
This past Saturday, this blog’s first birthday came and went with barely any mention on my part. I am a bad blogparent, I suppose. It’s not that we didn’t realize it was coming; hell, BFD and I tried to come up with some kind of cool promotion/blowout/shameless whoring that would excite all the readers. There was even talk of him table dancing while dressed like Darcy Maeda.Alas, none of it came to pass. We are nothing if not busy. And lazy. Mainly lazy, really.
ANYWAY…I didn’t want to completely miss the chance to say “thanks” to all the readers who have stopped by over the first year. We ended Saturday at just over 85,000 hits–even if you discount the two hits per day I put on that counter (work and home), that is still damn impressive for a little potty-mouthed blog with almost no promotion.
But enough tooting my own horn (which sounds dirty, but isn’t). The point of this post is to thank all of you who read DGDB&D on a daily basis. An extra-special thanks goes out to those of you who have cut-and-paste stuff we’ve written here on other websites and credited us for it and to those of you who email us stories/blurbs/bizarre conversation ideas regularly.
I know I’ve said it before, but allow me to say it again. My biggest thrill from this thing isn’t getting any sort of recognition from national media. I’ll take word of mouth and people who comment regularly over that other stuff any day. You guys are the reason we keep writing and, thankfully, the reason we strive to put out good product any time we post. There is no better editor alive than thirty or forty intelligent commenters who will straight call you out when you are off-base.
Enough of this sappiness. We now return you to your regularly scheduled curse words, already in progress.
