500th Post

Hey gang, sorry for the lack of posts this week, but the missus and I traveled to New Hampshire for the holidays. Hopefully you all got the perfect amount of pumpkin pie over the holiday, I had to settle for this tiny one I picked up at Building 19, but on the plus side, I did read through a bunch of trades of which I will have reviews up soon and even live blogged a movie called Night of the Demons, which will be going up right after this (I brought my laptop, but her folks don't have wireless, and their computer chair isn't the most comfortable, so forget it).

Anyway, to celebrate this 500th post, which I'm sure no one but me really cares about I wanted to share my brief blogging history with you. UnitedMonkee was launched back in March of this year with a post called Why Hello There, but it wasn't my first foray into the world of blogging. In fact, a good chunk of the posts on this blog were actually copied over from a blog I had while working at Wizard called Kickin' It Old School (you can read all the KIOS posts under the label of the same name to the left). I was actually walking with former Wizard internet czar Jim Gibbons. We were walking towards the New York Comic Con and I asked if I could do a blog for the Wizard site. He said sure, but asked me what it would be about, so I told him I'd think about it. A little while later I came at him with the idea of a blog that looks at older material as opposed to the up-to-date stuff most of the other blogs zeroed in on. The scope would of course open up, but that was the original idea. That first post went up May 9th, 2008.

For the longest time I was actually very anti-blog. Who cares what I have to say about anything? Well, not too many people at the moment, about 50-100 each day, but that's a whole hell of a lot more people who would listen to me ranting in my house every day. It really grew on me and I've become a huge fan of the medium. As you can maybe see if you go through the older posts (from either KIOS or UM), I've gone back and forth trying to figure out the best way to actually write something and present it. I'm basically learning as I go and I hope you guys are enjoying it.

So, what does the future of UnitedMonkee hold? I've got a crack design team (Rickey) working a new logo that combines the awesomeness of monkeys, beer and his art. I'm also slowly working on a sight redesign through WordPress, but it's slow going as my patience is running low. Any designers out there want to give a hand? Drop me a line. Also, like my October-wide Halloween Scene posts, I want to do the same with Christmas this year. I'm sure that won't bring in as many younger readers, but I'm hoping my reviews of White Christmas and Holiday Inn might bring in that ever-present elderly readership I'm trying to nail down.

Well, that about sums it up, hopefully this was interesting to a few of you. If not, give it a second and the Night of the Demons live blog will be up. Followed soon after by my review of the Justice books. I'm just waiting to see if the Steelers break my heart or not tonight. I'm thinking they might, but hoping the rag tag group of scrubs they've got in there can pull it off. Dixon just ran it in for a touchdown!!! They're up! Okay, gotta finish watching this, have a good one!

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