It also marks the airdate of the 100th episode of Lost.
Coincidence? Well, if that's not enough, today I make my 100th post!
My post frequency has picked up noticeably in the past three months. This is largely due to my increased enthusiasm brought by having actual readers (I really didn't do any publicity or networking in the first six months of the blog, content merely to be writing my thoughts down). I have also started making posts that are more about my personal life, rather than the almost exclusively sci-fi/fantasy/showbiz-themed posts I did before, which gives me more material. In any case, here I am at 100.
How should I celebrate this momentous occasion? I could look back at some of my favorite posts so far, but I've already singled out most of those in the sidebar to the right. I do sometimes wonder whether anyone has poked around in my older blog posts, though. Do you, dear reader, know the significance of the pictures decorating my blog's sidebar and header? Do you know what the subject of my "Mechanics of Solids" term paper was? Do you know what inspired me to write an awful (but rule-abiding) sonnet? Which Final Fantasy game have I played? Who directed my favorite commercial? Scavenger hunt!
Just kidding (unless you want to...). Many of my posts are probably not worth going back and reading, though you might be curious about the pictures and you would probably be amused by the term paper (really!). Anyway, to celebrate this day that is a 100 landmark for so many good things, I thought I'd make a list of 100 good things that I have written about on my blog (roughly in the order that I mentioned them).
100 Good Things I Have Talked About in My Blog
- Long skirts
- Lord of the Rings
- Harry Potter
- His Dark Materials
- Wheel of Time
- Shannara
- Redwall
- Watchmen
- Firefly
- Battlestar Galactica
- Lost
- Heroes
- Pushing Daisies
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Chuck
- Star Wars
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- The Matrix
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- Iron Man
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- X-Men
- Garden State
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Baldur's Gate
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Neverwinter Nights 2
- Diablo II
- Morrowind
- Hellgate: London
- Mass Effect
- Pokemon
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Joss Whedon
- Nathan Fillion
- Felicia Day
- Hawaii
- BioWare
- Justice League Unlimited
- Got Milk?
- Shakespeare
- Animaniacs
- Minsc (and Boo)
- Fringe
- Dr. Denethor
- How I Met Your Mother
- The Big Bang Theory
- Desperate Housewives
- Eli Stone
- Dollhouse
- Gay marriage
- Artificial languages
- Ice cubing
- Spider-Man: The Musical (the idea of it)
- Shindigs
- Ice-planets
- "The number of 'fleeting' penises we expect to see on broadcast television is zero."
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Bad sonnets
- Homer in space?!
- The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
- Wicked
- Barack Obama
- Batman, Turkey
- Surge protector power strips
- Heath Ledger
- Avenue Q
- Life
- Wall-E
- Diablo III
- Million+ crowds in D.C.
- The Oscars
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Sea kittens
- Computer game romances
- Independence
- Free trip to Hawaii
- Mass Effect 2
- $1 billion movies
- Dev Patel
- "I haven't seen The Reader"
- Hapas
- Video game commerce
- Snow days
- Silhouette's kiss
- $4 candybars
- Vampires cooking
- The discovery of phosphorus (ew)
- McDonald's Taro Pie
- Susan girl power
- Going out
- Star Trek
- The Onion
- College nostalgia
- Cherry blossoms
- Scuba diving
- Rainbows
- Metaphysics
Anyway, I hope you've been enjoying my blog (and will continue to enjoy it). Thanks for reading!
4 comments:
I just had to go back and look at your old posts for Shannara...are they making a film of it? Really?
I'm trying to read the books but there's so damn many of them...I think I've read 4 or 5 and all out of sequence and that's CONFUSING because i'm finding out things when I shouldn't be, I think!
The Shannara series is structured in sets (usually trilogies, but there's one stand-alone novel and one tetralogy). I've read the original trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong), the Heritage of Shannara tetralogy (Scions, Druid, Elfqueen, Talismans), The First King of Shannara, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy (Ilse Witch, Antrax, Morgawr), and the first of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy (Jarka Ruus, Tanequil, Straken)--in that order. With the exception of the original trilogy, I think it's pretty important that you read the novels within each trilogy/tetralogy in order. It's also good to start with the original trilogy.
That said, the only stories I can really remember are the original trilogy and the Heritage of Shannara tetralogy. I kind of remember Ilse Witch. They start to blend together, and like many long series, I think the ideas get a little tired. But I do love Elfstones!
Mike Newell is currently busy with Prince of Persia, which has had its release bumped back to next summer, but he might move on to Elfstones once he's done with that. Of course, that leaves plenty of time for the project to fall apart. We'll see if it happens.
haha i saw that 100 obama/lost thing via feministe!
congrats for you and 100 posts!!
Thanks!
Yeah, it was too good of a coincidence to ignore.
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