There’s really no easy way to shut down a blog, especially after nine years. NINE YEARS. That’s like 300 years in blog years. That’s like falling asleep when you’re 30 and waking up when you’re 40 but still thinking you’re 30 and acting accordingly. But as we know, there’s nothing cute about a 40-year-old blogger. Obviously In the Pink© has been winding down for some time now, what with work, pugs, babies, vacations, intermittent hospital stays for “exhaustion,” extended unpaid vacations, the occasional stakeout, breaking and entering, stalking politicians, posting gratuitous baby pictures on Facebook to show everyone that my baby is cuter than theirs, posting gratuitous pug pictures on Facebook to show everyone that my pug is cuter than theirs, afternoon wine tastings and Law & Order weekend marathons.
I don’t know about you but there’s nothing more unsettling to me than when I come across a blog that basically disappeared into the ether. The last post is from 2009, it’s been overtaken by spam, there’s no farewell and you’re left to wonder, what happened? Was the blogger kidnapped five years ago? Should I alert the police? Is someone holding him for ransom? Would anyone even pay? That said, I wanted to bid you all a fond farewell and wish you all the best in your future endeavors, although God knows what those would be.
So here’s something of a blogtrospective. Interestingly enough my very first post back in 2005 (when I actually paid attention to Texas politics) was about former colleague Paul Burka in It’s Burka’s Texas (and we just live in it). Clearly a harbinger of things to come.
Here we go:
- The original When Harry Met Sally parody
- Starbucks names (Elaine/Ilene, IIIN, Anin)
- The Rapture! End Times! The Antichrist!
- Growing up Irish Catholic
- Seriously. It’s because you’re not married.
- Professional politician stalker
- Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
- Pinot is good for you.
- Mental illness du jour
- Perry for President (Remember?!)
- Sex scandals for dummies
- Stop breeding, Breeders!
- Great moments in media
- Participating in the Democratic process
- Backslash, the ORIGINAL hashtag
Thank you loyal readers and commenters (the anonymous, the semi-anonymous, the wish-they’d-been anonymous); fellow bloggers; trolls; the Pink Mafia; guest writers TJ Shroat, Smooch, Tickled Pink, John Cornyn’s Box Turtle, Fled the Asylum, The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, Andy Brown, MattyD; the extended Kennedy clan; pregnant powerwashing nannies; death panels; patriotic kitten sweater vests and, of course, freakishly small knees.
I hope I’ve made you laugh. God knows I didn’t make you think. But no one says leave ‘em thinking. Until next time.
You can still find me here: @EileenDSmith
[CAVEAT: I reserve the right to bring it all back for 2016.]