Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Culture Kills hits milestone: 300 posts

This is not a clip show. I repeat, this is not a clip show episode. That would be too easy for me, and I promised you all something better than that. I will link to a few things, but really, this is more the story of the story than me trying to sell a couple of my entries to get some more views. I am going to have a favorites section soon.

This blog has only existed for 222 days so far, so I am a little surprised to be writing this entry today. I mean, this is a milestone I didn't think I would reach when I started, let alone so fast, and with so little filler. I can admit that yes, there were posts which I didn't need to make, but I chose to anyway -- well, I didn't need to make any of them, but you know what I mean. For most of the things I've written, I still can't tell you what month I posted them them up because in reality, nearly every entry seems like I just wrote it last month. It feels like I just thanked all my loyal readers in October, but in reality, that was way back in July.

So, let's start this little jaunt with three famous words: in the beginning of this mammoth undertaking, I didn't know a lot of the things that would come up. I didn't know that I was going to be doing a comic every week, or that I was just going to decide one weekend to start giving out an award after hearing a particularly haunting rendition of the Divinyls "I Touch Myself". I had modest goals when I began... simply to enjoy the ride and leave my previous blog's baggage behind, and I did that in the most spectacular way possible.

I could also have never predicted that a little piece on Chinese food containers would end up being the most commented article I would write on this blog, or that I would lament about remakes as much as I have. And the fact that I finally feel secure enough to reveal my real name is another milestone for me.

Sure, I've tried a lot of different design elements, sidebar addons and different web programs, and yet in the end, I always come back to the most basic elements centering on what has been written. So it is that I bid a fond farewell to Cocomment, TornadoStream and all the others that had a place on my blog for a short time. You won't be forgotten... wait, yes you will. I had trouble remembering you just now. And yet, the plaid tartan has stayed. I bet you can all guess what my favorite color is by now eh? How long will the plaid stay? I don't know. That is a question I can't answer.

Sure, I jumped on a few bandwagons... like I got into the hype for Snakes on a Plane in a big way, and we all know how that turned out. OK, I admit it, I tanked that movie. I take full responsibility. I am sorry Mr. Jackson, I killed your movie by supporting it, and I am willing to take the asskicking you will probably want to administer at any time you wish to give it. Though by the same light, I am not sorry if that same brand of advocacy killed Smith. Maybe I should start going positive on the FCC and MPAA... and Jack Thompson too and make the world a better place.

Now do I have regrets? Of course I do. For starters, I wish I would have went with a cooler name. I mean, I had intended to only be Culture Kills... wait, I mean Cutlery until I found a better name, but I just couldn't come up with anything better and then I sort of, well, forgot that I was going to do that. Oops! But looking back now, I just think of the all the possibilities based on some of the things I've talked about:

B.A. Baracus says STFU with that Jibba Jabba!
85% Plagiarism free
Remake it and regret it
The Culture Warrior's foot and Anne Coulter's Ass: A wonderful combination
Everybody gets a cow!
The Young and the Transmundane
The Ego Trip of Ace Duel: Entertainment Commander

or I could have been smart and gone with Rantocracy... that could have worked.

I also should have taken up Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on their offer to publish the first pictures of Suri for on the condition that I stopped badmouthing Scientology. Now that's a regret and a half. How was I to know they were going to be so sought after. Let's just say I won't make that mistake again. Of course, there are still so many more mistakes to make.

So, in closing, I want to thank everyone who has joined this little journey through the underbrush of the entertainment/pop cultural world. I couldn't have done it without you all. Mem-oor-iEEES....

12 comments:

robkroese said...

Congratuslations! Yes, that's a typo, but I kind of liked it, so I left it.

As luck would have it, your post prompted me to check how many posts I've done, and apparently I just posted my 100th today. So much for the big celebration I had planned.

I had a good name for a blog the other day, but I can't for the life of me think of it now. Sorry.

MC said...

Mr. Fab: Well, you also have to remember that I can't title a post to save my life, so naturally I second guess the blog title.

diesel: For my 100th post I just mentioned it at the end of that post.

Now, to figure out what I am going to do for April 28, 2007.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! Here's to another 300!

Cold Cut Ten said...

The name is just fine. Original, and catchy.

Cheers on 300!

Anonymous said...

I've got to agree with everyone else on the name thing MC -- I saw your name in a blogroll and immediately had to see what this place was all about.

Congrats on the big 300 senor! I don't think the current incarnation of f/j is going to make it that far (shame shame shame on me), but I'm glad to see you've pulled it off with flying colors!

MC said...

Jess: thanks Jess :)

Liz: 300 is a lot more than I had at the other place, that's for sure. ;)

Jimmy: You'll get it all working eventually. You're working hard on the redesign after all.

Maven said...

Congrats on #300!!

MC said...

Thanks Maven. :)

Cold Cut Ten said...

Even if you did, it wouldn't be as nice as this one. I've been back there though I don't intend to be as involved as before.

MC said...

Well, it isn't as nice a place to begin with truth be told.

poppedculture said...

congrats MC - there are so many abandoned blogs out there that it's good to see one going strong,

MC said...

I am a glutton for attention, what can I say. ;)