Programming note.
For the most part, December’s never been a great month for writing or posting for me. Too much holiday distraction, on both my part and on yours. To that end, I am taking the rest of December off from new posts. Which really, I barely need to mention, because at this point I’m only doing like, what, three posts a week? On a particularly active week? Oh well.
Regardless, two things occurred to me this weekend.
The first is what a large backlog there is. Since late 2008 I have created almost 1,500 posts, which probably comes out to somewhere in the neighborhood of tens and tens of thousands of words. Some of the posts were actually pretty decent, too.
The second is that I’ve also had quite a few new readers since then.
So, to introduce some of these new readers to previous highwater marks in the South 12th canon, and to send some of those stories back into the forefront of human consciousness, every day this month I’ll repost a piece from (primarily) 2009 or (to a lesser extent) 2010. There won’t be much from 2008, as nothing from 2008 was salvageable. On all postings, I’ll add footnotes and post-scripts where needed.
At the end of the year, I will post a round-up of the best of South 12th from 2011. By then, having been brought up on the past and having had the previous year summarized, you will be able to see clearly what an important role South 12th has played in your life.
But by then, it will be too late. Because in January, I’ll finally join Twitter and never write another blog post again for the rest of my life. Instead, I will lob individual bon mots directly at @you, and just directly link you to Facebook events I want you to know about with bit.ly instead of writing about them. on.fb.me/u6GCKJ #catchyousuckersontheflipside
