Well, the state of the blog is: steady. This post promises no significant changes or major events. It’s really just to say that the new version of the blog–the one where I post irregularly but more than just once or twice a month–is likely to continue as far as I can predict. And to make a couple smallish announcements:
– The visitor log is inching ever closer to 400,000. That’s awesome. Thanks everyone who has stopped by over the years and contributed to that number. We’ll shoot for 500,000 next. Half a million is a lot of people.
– The blog also passed its fifth birthday a month or so ago, with no fanfare whatsoever. It’s pretty crazy that this thing I started on a whim back then is still chugging along.
– I’ve finally joined the 21st century and joined the Twitter-craze. No promises about keeping it up, or having anything particularly interesting to say, but you can follow me @olneyce.
– Newer visitors might not be aware of the only truly interesting thing I’ve done on the blog: rank every Beatles song from worst to first. Unfortunately, the move from Blogger to WordPress killed all the comments those posts used to have, which makes me sad. So please, go read, and yell at me for putting your favorite song at #63, or commend me for my brilliance, or tell interesting stories about the songs.
– Still don’t get Radiohead. The King of Limbs bores me to tears.
– I have, however, really been digging this Phil Ochs cover:
When I’m Gone – Thea Gilmore