Typically, there’s nothing special at all about particular numbers, especially when it comes to recreational hobby blogging. But I’m a fan of baseball, where numbers make the world go round, and where nice round ones are championed and celebrated at every opportunity, and I’m also a pretty sentimental guy who often times puts more stock into something than really should be deemed necessary, like nice round numbers.
But anyway, this is a very special post to me, because it happens to be the 1,000th post I’ve made to my beloved brog. Now I’ve been brogging a lot longer, since there were about nine years prior to moving it to a WordPress format where I was doing it prehistorically, but since WP is nice enough to do all the number crunching for me, and display it in a prominent area in its dashboard, I’ve always been cognizant to the ever-increasing numbers throughout the past three years and change as I’ve made my best efforts to try to post something on a workday basis.
I genuinely do take a good deal of pride in this superficial number, because frankly, I’m hard pressed to find anyone like me who blogs as a side hobby, remotely close to dedicated as I do. Obviously, I’m not saying that these people don’t exist, but I sure as hell don’t know any. I hate to say that I have no faith in others, but the truth of the matter is that I shrug and mentally make bets in my head whenever people start a blog, to how soon it will be before they ultimately abandon it; I really hate to sound so pessimistic about it, but frankly nobody’s proven to me the ability to go half a year, much less over three years, before their posting weans off, the novelty is gone, and then the desire goes outright kaput. I’m not criticizing people, and I’m not blaming people, because recreational blogging isn’t necessarily hard, but it’s pretty unfulfilling if it feels like nobody is reading, you’re not getting paid for it, or you simply run into writers’ blocks.
Sure, I’ve thrown up my share of fluff posts, including once a post with nothing but an emoticon because I met a girl, but for the most part I can confidently say that a vast majority of posts otherwise I’ve written have been of a fairly substantial number of words in each. Writing in general has always been something I’ve been pretty enthusiastic about, I take pride in making my best efforts to post things on a regular basis for as long as I’ve done it. I’ve had my share of writer’s blocks naturally, but I still feel enthusiasm when I stumble across a thought or something I’ve seen that inspires me to write, and when inspiration strikes, it’s like I have to get something written as soon as possible.
As I said, I’m a sentimental guy, so in instances like this one, I wanted to take a look back from the beginning of the WP journey, and take a little trip down memory lane. At first, I thought that I would try to decipher my favorite ten posts, but then it became twenty, and then I decided to start categorizing, because it turns out that there’s a whole bunch of varying tangents I’ve gone off in over the last three years and change. Sure, this makes me seem kind of narcissistic, but if I had to suggest the things I’ve written that give a fairly accurate picture of who I am, most of these would be on the list.
Video game themed posts
10.18.10 – Redesigning Left 4 Dead posters
01.16.11 – Kicking the XBOX employee from our L4D game
04.22.12 – *SPOILERS* The drinks from Mass Effect 3
05.10.12 – Mass Effect romances explained by Saved by the Bell
08.22.12 – QQ, the soliloquy
02.11.13 – Ranking the women of Resident Evil
03.19.13 – Misogyny vs. misandry in video games
04.17.13 – The REAL SMB3-themed MARTA map
07.13.13 – Reality now that eSports is recognized as professional “sport”
09.13.13 – (Re)Ranking the Final Fantasy pecking order
Race cards
05.24.10 – Getting racially profiled as the delivery food guy
06.07.10 – The swan song of Miss Racial Profiler
09.12.10 – Should America have to pay reparations?
02.17.12 – Jeremy Lin, the NBA’s Prodigal Son
05.02.12 – Alabama’s favorite baseball player to root for
09.14.12 – The blackest business proposal ever
11.19.12 – Axing questions
02.18.13 – The things that shape us
Being Korean
09.31.11 – Typical Korean guy’s work day schedule
09.20.12 – Seeking a Korean starter wife
02.06.13 – Koreans are full of shit, too
08.06.13 – Resenting the Korean story
Television, movies and comics
06.12.10 – The Karate Kid vs. The Kung Fu Kid
06.30.10 – The Saved by the Bell/Friends connection
11.20.10 – Review: King of the Fighters: The Legend of Mai Shiranui
09.27.11 – Jubilee: the vampire.
04.20.12 – What Boy Meets World should have been called
01.12.13 – Was the Clock King really a villain?
Nostalgia
03.11.11 – The high school crush
05.29.11 – How much things change in 4,000+ days
10.25.11 – Celebrating Nikki’s life through pictures
12.10.11 – A walk through Springfield Mall, winter 2011
11.05.13 – I love goodbyes
Personal romance-related rants and monologues
02.13.10 – Hope for those that don’t look like trophies
07.11.10 – The summer fling of 2010
07.13.10 – What the rejection felt like
10.29.12 – Desperately Seeking Shay
06.10.13 – The pursuit of a good story
Artistic opinions
05.23.11 – Walmart and the butthole
11.28.11 – So you want to be a graphic designer?
01.25.12 – Fat people should have their own airline
08.31.12 – The Mafia Graves gun
08.14.13 – Georgia Tech’s logo is flawed
Sports and wrestling
07.03.12 – The NBA Slam Dunk contest is stupid
03.02.13 – The importance of storming the court
03.23.13 – Chris Masters’ tree-ripping heroism
03.28.13 – The real things winning sports can solve
06.28.13 – Daniel Bryan and taking good back
11.15.13 – Michael Jordan’s eternal ownage of Patrick Ewing
Personal plugs
02.22.10 – Covered by WRAL for the Krispy Kreme Run
07.19.10 – I’m kind of Sports Illustrated
02.07.11 – My contributions to an Atlanta Braves annual edition
Anyway, 1,000 posts down, here’s to thousands more in the future. If you’re one of my six readers, I genuinely appreciate your readership. Or if you happened to stumble across my brog or are someone wanting to be readers number seven, eight and nine, welcome visitor.
Either way, the train ain’t stopping, and here’s hoping the brogging never ends.
