500

Believe it or not, this is my 500th post. Not bad, considering I only started this blog back in October, before Halloween. Since then, I've managed to pick up more than a few regular readers, while avoiding alienating and/or embarrassing my friends and family who check in with the blog from time to time. I'm not sure which of these makes me prouder. Suffice to say, I've had a lot of fun writing this blog. In fact, it's the most disciplined I've been about writing in a very long time, probably since high school. Thankfully, I think, my writing, like my hairstyle and wardrobe, has improved since the mid-1990s.

In recognition of this not-so-historic milestone, I turned to the wizards at Wordle, a fun website that creates word clouds from prepared text. I copied all of the various tags in each of my previous 499 posts, and pasted into Wordle. The above image is the result. I think it's a telling--and pretty accurate-- visual representation of all the crap I've been spouting since before Obama was elected. Thanks for stopping by, and for your continued support. I'm looking forward to the next 500 posts, which, by the looks of it, will most likely be about either the Yankees or the Knicks. I wouldn't have it any other way.