Many congrats to my favorite blogger/writer James Lileks on 10 years' worth of daily Bleats. You can find a short retrospective on the previous decade of work here.
I don't really see how he does it (you could spend days on his namesake site examining all manner of old matchbooks, postcards, and other "defenseless ephemera," as he calls it, and I have) - I know that I'd either have to give up the scanning and Photoshopping, or the writing, or the podcast, but he manages to pull it off masterfully without any of it sounding tired or repetitive.
If there's anything that I've tried to at least loosely model Bramble Tamble on, it's Lileks' site. I don't have his gifts as far as visual creativity goes (please see the Bramble Tamble category "Bad Photos and Even Worse Photoshopping" for an example), but I know that he's expanded my horizons as far as subject matter is concerned. It's because of him that I don't feel like it's a waste of time to write about my son or my day-to-day life and post it here. I also deeply appreciate his sense of tradition and his unstated reverence toward the vintage. And it goes without saying that I like having someone as sharp as he is on my side of the political fence also.
Here's to you, James, and here's to 10 more years!
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