Can you believe it? another year has passed and what have we accomplished here? Hmmm…
Well, this New Year’s Day is AMRFP’s 201st entry. It has been a hit and miss affair as far as certain topics are concerned, readers feedback has been sporadic. Amazingly enough… some of my favorites have garnished the fewest hits, while the ones that seemed insignificant blasted the charts! I feel like Tommy Smothers or the court jester under the employment of the king. Can’t bite the hand that feeds you, but then again… I don’t want to lose my objectivity, that would be blogareer suicide.
My friend, dame… over at “matters of little consequence” recently wrote an interesting post about getting through Christmas. Sad day when the holidays catch us as burdensome rather than what they were intended to be… a time to be with family and friends. Perhaps with a sweetheart lounging on the beach, kissing in broad daylight while the whole world passes by and who’s to care? Perfect Christmas time when alligators made of sand greet you instead of snowmen… warm island breezes instead of arctic wind chill… glorious sun instead of overcast skies.
I wish I were there with you still, my fair one… the world could’ve ended then and I would have been satisfied. Lets keep the mas in Christmas.
Yes, the end of the year… a time to pause and reflect. This blog saw almost double the entries I posted in 2006, perhaps I have become too blabby in my old age…
Some were videos which is a poor substitute for good writing (or bad, depending on your view point) but I thought most of them were relevant to an adjoining topic, I tried to use them sparingly…
But for better or worse, in reverse order from last posted to the first…
scroll back…
peace.
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1) Shades of Hemingway/ Medium Exposure Parts 1-12 and epilogue… a joy for me to write but my hits for December were the lowest since the posting of the original Shades of Hemingway way back last spring. I should’ve known better but “I say what the hey… people get that way… I get that way, too.”
2) Prelude to Shades of Hemingway / Medium Exposure… prophetic introduction but who listens to the voice of reason?
3) A Holiday Wish… posted on 11-12-07. Expounding on the frailities of life and it’s aftermath
4) Ode to Daily Readers… I have one or two, perhaps you? thanks for the encouraging words and frequent flier miles 😉
5) …underwhelming… one of my favorite recent posts, life is like a box of chock ‘o’ nuts
6) SPACE… the final front tear… The fact that we all need a little space is not wasted here
7) Love Should (video)… introduced to me by my #1 fan, and she is right (plays into the next entry, rules of engagement )
8) rules of engagement… All’s fair in love and bologna? I am a firm believer in love, love above all else… I am a romantic, I make no bones about it
9) convertible therapy… Sometimes you just have to go out and burn a little ethanol
10) A Spiritual Man… my so-so attempt at lyrics, but the inspiration remains true. My fair one makes me feel like my sins have been atoned for
11) rude, crude, lewd and socially unacceptable behavior… Love will make you crazy, this is my account of one instance where my emotions got the better of me
12) Marry Me (video)… A great song and request. I posted it for the L&M entry, but it stands alone for it’s message… which shot me right through the heart
13) L&M… Love set to the tone of Romeo and Juliet, but without the sad ending and the thee, thy, those or what for
14) Goodbye! … it’s great to be back again… My vacation and the advances I made on finally meeting my true companion
15) Michelle (video) these are words that go together well. Posted for Love is… an entry and inspiration that I am most grateful for
16) Love is… This post, above all others… changed my life. Before… I hoped she did, from this day on… she knew she would. Glorious
17) the other life I should have led… We all wonder what might have been, here are a few of mine
18) Goodbye freebee T.V… set to the tune of the Stones, Ruby Tuesday
19) Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (video) for Goodbye freebee T.V. for those of you who couldn’t catch the riff
20) Thank You… acknowledging the best month ever for AMRFP
21) Ben & Ted’s Abhorrent Misadventure… Alaskan politics at it’s finest and who are we kidding? it’s the same all over
22) TMTV (video) information on the misconduct of Senator Ted Stevens
23) live and let liv tyler… there’s just not enough love in the world
24) Dear Abby, “ma’am” and me… I love Dear Abby and this was a tribute to her advice column
25) Dear Abby (video) self explanatory
26) The Brave Highway… my life at a crossroads, speed bump ahead
27) Sunday Morning Coming Down (video) posted for The Brave Highway
28) learn to avoid Internet scams! …good advice
29) pass it on… our sometimes not so subtle influences
30) Amazing Guitar Player (video) definately lives up to it’s hype, this one serves as an inspiration
31) I Never Thought I’d Live To Be A Hundred (video) posted for Live to be 100 entry
32) Live to be 100… live like you weren’t dying (for a while)
33) What If God Surfed the Internet? …inspired by damewiggensoflee and written to the tune of One of Us
34) One of Us (video) …in case you couldn’t catch the riff
35) I’m Too Sexy for S.W. Airlines… written for the passengers that were asked to leave their flights because of the clothing they wore… was that a threat to national security?
36) I’m Too Sexy (video) …in case you couldn’t catch the riff
37) Leave Britney Spears Alone… a parody of Leave Virginia Alone this entry garnished the most hits on this blog EVER in a single day
38) Leave Virginia Alone (video) …in case you couldn’t catch the riff
39) Yikes! discomblogulation… why do we blog?
40) just another day in paradox… our fine government at work covering up
41) Just Gimme Some Truth (video) posted for just another day in paradox and expresses my sentiments towards the Bush administration
42) Hey Jack Karouac (lyrics)… follows the video
41) Hey Jack Karouac (video) … in celebration of AMRFP’s 10,000th hit
42) You’ll Be in My Heart (video) … a promise to a memory
43) Whispering Pines (video) … music from a period in and around the post My First Bicycle
44) My First Bicycle… a tribute to the memory of my brother-in-law, Bob Henderson
45) Viva Las Vegas (video) …follows CD’s & Elvis as apropos to the theme
46) CD’s & Elvis… marks the anniversary of Elvis’ death and the invention of the Compact Disc
47) Rehab (video) … in case you couldn’t catch the riff
48) rehab redux… based on the song by Winehouse, she is one messed up chick
49) as time goes by (video) …the fundamental things apply
50) I’m in repair (video) … recovering from a broken romance
51) new socks… same ol’ jaw …some people can write about anything
52) bad attitudes, sick bastards and cheaters win… got some flak on this one in my comments section, which was kinda cool
53) today is the best day ever! woo hoo! …and it was until Leave Britney Spears Alone
54) no time for the blues… or how to recover from them
55) Gravity (video) precedes no time for the blues
56) I Believe In You (video) follows What I Believe and seemed to fit
57) What I Believe… well, it’s about… what I believe
58) Running on Faith (video) follows Death, where is thy sting?
59) Death, where is thy sting? …written for a friend who lost a loved one
60) What a great idea! …something to make you think about fairness in our government’s welfare policy
61) A Good Line With High Extentions… a link to another site I enjoy
62) How come it always parades on my rain? …I’d still like to know the answer to that one
63) 7-7-7 (unlucky in love but still willing to gamble)… title says it all
64) Don’t You Love Me Anymore (video)
65) It’s Over (video)
66) Life By The Drop (video)
67) Please Forgive Me (video)
68) breaking up is hard to do… painful but true
69) See SiCKO (b4ubasicko2)… this film makes you think. Panned by the critics but, you be the judge
70) Hello Hillary… last attempt to influence the candidate. Interestingly, though she has never written me, I am on her e-mail list. ha
71) and still more pet peeves! …gosh, I enjoy complaining
72) the illegal immigration solution, conclusion… a 3 parter that began last year
73) Whilst I was away… catching up on the events that were going on that I didn’t comment on while I was posting Shades of Hemingway that I might have if I hadn’t taken the time to post Shades of Hemingway. Does that make sense?
74) Shades of Hemingway… 13 parts and a prologue, lowest read posts of the year… but don’t let that stop you 😉
75) Ladies and Gentleman, for your listening pleasure… a tribute to Jesse Winchester
76) sunrise… sunset and the we in between… reflections on the life we share
77) Hello Hillary… more questions for the Democratic candidate (unanswered, of course)
78) Viacom needs a hug… poor major conglomerate needs a little sympathy
79) Everyday (video) … I love this Dave Matthews Band song/video , goes well with respect your elders and admire them… it is the beginning of wisdom
80) respect your elders and admire them… it is the beginning of wisdom… which I think is good advice no matter who you are
81) the definitive 200? …lists suck (unless they are mine)
82) amazing juggling finale… a keeper, I still enjoy watching this one 9 months after the posting
83) hopeless romantic… wax on, wax off about me wanting to be
84) Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? (video) works well with hopeless romantic
85) Hello Hillary… more unanswered questions for the Democratic candidate
86) Comfortably Numb (video) goes with traffic jam
87) traffic jam… who hasn’t fretted about this?
88) Save It For A Rainy Day (video)
89) save it for a rainy day… you better
90) black and white… oooh, started off innocent enough but boy did I catch the dickens over this one in my comments
91) undercurrent with my big toe… and you thought my avatar was computer generated
92) birthdays… na na na na na na… na na
93) Hello Hillary… more unanswered questions for the Democratic candidate
94) 72 degrees in January… the fear factor
95) Hello Hillary… more unanswered questions for the Democratic candidate
96) the best dadgum country song, period! … at least, I think so
97) Hello Hillary… more unanswered questions for the Democratic candidate
98) people in the No… people should know better
99) Hello Hillary… first letter to the Democratic candidate
100) Flowers are better than bullets… remembering the Kent State Massacre
101) the good ol’ days… weren’t always good, tomorrow’s not as bad as it seems
102) Let me call you sweetheart… though this was my first entry in 2006, it re-occurs as one of the most popular topics of the year for this blog. Great fun for me to write as well as the reflection it creates
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Looking forward to a full and productive year in 2008. Thanks to you, faithful reader, for making it all worthwhile.
Keep them comments coming…
peace.