Since I signed up for NaBloPoMo in November, I pimped my blog at Blogher, as you do. And as I have done in the past. In previous attempts, that’s usually meant a few extra followers and some welcome comments from folks I don’t know. That’s all been very cool — thriving communities grow, and I’m… Read More who are you people?
I guess it would have been understandable, given this week’s circumstances, if I had forgotten what today was (besides Thanksgiving, of course). As it is, I nearly missed it. It? That’s the 10-year anniversary of Uncle Crappy. (Uncle Crappy the blog, that is. Uncle Crappy the person has been around for much, much longer.) I… Read More 24. ten.
A few days ago, I had a rough morning. I won’t recap the whole thing now — there’s an entire post about that — but I found one thing that I apparently need to add to that list. Along with my lunch and closing the refrigerator door, I forgot about my 1,500th post. Which was… Read More 21. fifteen hundred. and a couple more.
How you can tell it’s a NaBloPoMo month — we’re only two weeks in, and this is the second Facebook meme I’ve stolen from the blog. I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this one, the *insertnumberhere* Things You Didn’t Know About Me meme. The rules and conventions for this one… Read More 18. about me.
Continuing my long-standing tradition of ignoring Facebook memes in favor of posting them here, today I present: The States To Which Uncle Crappy Has Traveled. That’s the same map that’s been popping up all over Facebook in the last few days, courtesy of Defocus Blog. Here’s the key, based on the specs of the creator:… Read More 10. i get around.
Given that it was never supposed to happen, I guess I can’t be too unhappy that it’s over. I wasn’t ever supposed to be the host of Newsbreak, the daily webcast we’ve produced at my paper for nearly as long as I’ve worked there; I was just going to fill in on occasion. And I… Read More that’s the news.
Uncle Crappy 