Monthly Archives: July 2026

One-and-a-Half Decades

On this day fifteen years ago, in 2011, I started this blog and published the first Logos con Carne post. Since then, I’ve published 2,118,480 words comprising 1,503 posts (plus 42 pages) — an average of 1,375 words per post.

The anniversary means it’s time for the biannual extract and analysis of the blog’s content and page views. It’s time for lists and charts and stats (oh, my). And a bottle of champagne tonight.

These posts tend to be a bit dry and uninteresting to anyone but me, so, dear reader, you’ll be forgiven for skipping this one.

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Friday Notes (Jul 3, 2026)

After taking May and most of June off from blogging (in fact, from anything involving sitting at my computer), I tried to jump-start myself by putting out five posts at the end of June. The more eagle-eyed readers may have noticed I put out only three.

I intended a Monday post about movies I’ve seen lately followed by a TV Tuesday post about TV shows. But both days passed without posts because reasons — mostly ennui, to be honest.

But I am motivated to put out this early-in-the-month Friday Notes post because it’s the last post of my 14th year blogging here; tomorrow is the 15-year anniversary!

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