10 Things I Should Have Blogged in 2008
Monday, December 29th 2008Okay, so I admit it. I'm a workaholic. While I've probably spent 2/3 of my time banging keys and refreshing webpages in the last 365 days, I couldn't save 10 to 15 minutes to hunker down and blog frequently in 2008. That, or cook up an old-fashioned D&D campaign for a couple of friends here in Boston. These were both New Years resolutions that didn't carry over from 2007, I'm afraid. I can't promise to be good this year either, so I'll be optimistic and say 2009 looks promising. Here's to 2008 and hindsight:
- My daring escape from my psychotic, aquarium-destroying landlord and her variously insidious offspring who live at 44 Linden Street in Medford, Massachusetts. (Which I advise you never move into. Ever.)
- The multitudes of WordPress hacks and CSS exploits I employed in my recent freelancing projects, as well as all the neat tricks I learned after working for a real web design company for a year, which I should have kindly shared with you.
- How much the publishing industry FAILS, and how the ensuing Depression is not to blame for declining magazine and newspaper sales (and considering that my MA in publishing is due next semester, I fail for not commenting on this!)
- Trying to launch an online Japanese rock magazine with $0 in start-up capital and two overseas editors...
- Domo at Target.
- The election. (Oh man, I won't get that chance again.)
- Otakon and the STANK that was Baltimore. My god, what a miserable city. (Sorry Baltimore people, your city really does suck.) And in combination with anime fans? Christ, why. Oh—and the rot of a hotel; I could go on and on...
- The Regina Spektor concert, the Franz Ferdinand concert, and the dir en grey concert. (Yes, I went to the dir en grey concert. We had to hit up the demographic. Give me a break.)
- Obnoxious f**cks in movie theaters flashing cellphones DURING THE DARK KNIGHT ON OPENING NIGHT. WTF people, really? Are you so socially dysfunctional that you need to text your dumbass MySpace friends during the premiere of the best superhero movie ever to crawl out of Hollywood's orifices? GO HOME AND KEEP WATCHING HEROES.
Tina Fey, Vanity Fair
- And of course, Tina Fey in Vanity Fair. $5 million book contract? Sarah Palin fail = win? Hot teacher glasses? When Wired declared that geek is the new chic, I don't think they had this in mind!
