[14 years ago this week, this blog was born. For this year’s anniversary series, I wanted to highlight a handful of the types of posts that have kept me blogging for nearly a decade and a half now. Leading up to some special weekend tributes!]
For folks
who know me, it’s likely no surprise that the first month of this blog included
posts that featured The
Marrow of Tradition, Thunderheart,
Boston’s
Shaw/54th Massachusetts Memorial, The
Grandissimes and The Squatter and the
Don, The
Best Years of Our Lives, and the Chinese
Educational Mission and its Celestials baseball team. That is, all of those
things are favorites of mine in their respective cultural and historical
categories, and I can’t imagine creating a daily blog without getting the
chance to share such favorites with y’all (I’m honestly just surprised I didn’t
get to Springsteen
or Sayles
for as long as I did, although I’ve more than made up for it since). While I
got a lot of those favorites into the mix very quickly, I’ve certainly returned
to favs every month and year since, including further attention to those but
also to other subjects such as (to name just a few from this past year) Kane
Brown, House
of Leaves, Deadwood and Justified, and many many more. I’m
still doing this 14 years down the road for lots of reasons, as I hope this
series will illustrate, but high on the list is that I’m having a lot of fun,
and favorites help make it so.
Next post
on posts tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Give
me a great anniversary present and say hi in comments, please!
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