279 For 1

Last night I was surprised to discover that the Thought Wad has been blowing for a whole year now. 365 days, 279 posts. I very rarely bother to celebrate my own birthday so I don’t really see why I should make a big deal of this. But what the hell...


It’s been a useful exercise to get away and write something different on the days I’ve been writing all day. Or to write something on the days we’ve been filming or editing or doing whatever else it was.

Will was the first person to leave a proper comment – so thanks for that fella. I guess after going off in a lot of different directions to begin with, in a way he helped me set the tone. That doesn’t mean you should lay any blame at his door.

What you get here has mostly been undiluted me. I tried to avoid any kind of self-censorship – unless of course something seriously crosses the line or it’s just way too much information. I probably have jammed my foot right in my mouth a couple times.

Though probably not as badly as the time I was sitting next to a Disney pod-person producer at an end-of-production meal. She mentioned OJ had to be guilty because it would be too difficult to sustain a conspiracy like that. I laughed and said, “Oh yeah, what about Dealey Plaza?!” At which point the whole restaurant went deathly silent.

Judging from the various comments, it’s been a blessed relief to find like-minded people out there in the digital ether who loathe you-know-what as much as I do. The discussions have been entertaining. Then again there have been other times where I had to step out the way to avoid getting tumbleweed wedged in my arse.

I never bothered looking inside Drawer C. When I followed the process Adrian Mead put forward about The Power of Three and mentioned I was looking for people, the response was generally crickets chirping and a church bell tolling in the distance.

Maybe the readership has changed. Or maybe I should have been more explicit and used a megaphone while strapped to a giant firework. (Thanks once again though to Dolly and Lara who did step up when I asked them independently of the blog. Their responses were very helpful).

Anyway, the next year will be bigger and better because that’s the way things have to be, right? I was talking about the blog itself, but then again, who knows?