Once Upon a Geek

ONCE UPON A GEEK is one year old today!

Hard to believe it’s been a whole year!  The site went live on March 31, 2008 with a simple “Welcome and Introductions” post.  Originally it was an experiment to try and understand what blogging was all about. At the time I didn’t really think I’d be able to keep up with a blog, but I sure was going to try.   Early on I realized there were very few readers over the weekend, so I decided to just focus on posting on weekdays. Hence the description that it’s a “weekdaily” blog. Also, that gives me two days off each week so I can recharge my geek batteries.

A year later and there have been 284 posts, over 1,000 comments, and over 135,000 visitors! And I’ve been foolish enough to start a second blog, the FIRESTORM FAN.

My thanks to everyone that has stopped by ONCE UPON A GEEK over the past year.  I also want to thank all my friends and the blogging community for their support and assistance.  Please take a minute to visit some of the sites below.  These folks have been true gems and deserve all the support you can give.

• Anyone reading this
• Michael Bailey over at Views from the Longbox, Fortress of Baileytude, and The Unique Geek
• Stuart Renton over Stuart Renton.com and The Geekest Link
  
• Serv over at The Unique Geek
• Ed over at Ordinary Man, Technical Difficulties Podcast, and The Unique Geek
• rob! over at The Aquaman Shrine, I am the Phantom Stranger, and the Rob Kelly Family of Blogs
• Kelson over at SpeedForce.org and Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning
• Terry over at Choco Taco’s LiveJournal, Technical Difficulties Podcast, and The Unique Geek
• EDP over at I Don’t Read My Blog Either, GeekNoir, and The Unique Geek
• SGhoul over at Oozings From My Head
• Ravenface over at Glimpse Ye The Narwhal and The Unique Geek
• Frank over at Idol-Head of Diabolu, Justice League Detroit, and …nurgh…
• Jon over at The Unique Geek, the Technical Difficulties Podcast, and AudioMohel
• Ron over at The Unique Geek
• Sterling over at Eighty Years (or so) To The Big Zero, New Bards’ Press, and The Unique Geek
• T.H. Elliott over at Philosophically Broken, Technical Difficulties Podcast, and The Unique Geek
• Voice of the Red Skull over at 100 Acre Woods
• The Acrobatic Flea over at HeroPress.net
• Bubba Shelby over at Toyriffic and Art by Bubba Shelby
• Reis over at Geek Orthodox
• Luke over at El Jacone’s Comic Book Bunker and Being Carter Hall
• Doug over at the Doom Patrol Blog
• Siskoid over at Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
• Scott C from NeedCoffee.com and The Unique Geek
• Matt over at Groovy Superhero
• Ned Stacey over at Cosmic Cat Comics, Mail Me My Comics and Ned M Stacey Sr Art
• Darius Whiteplume of Adventures in Nerdliness
• Jeff over at (jeff)isageek
• The folks over at Old-Wizard.com
• Widge over at NeedCoffee.com
• Matt over at Comic Blog Elite and Division 18
  
• The Hardcover Lover over at Hardcover Lover
• Steven Marsh over at Waiting For Go
• SK over at Creating A Graphic Novel: Art – Food – Photography
• Patrick of The Unique Geek and Not A Blogging Dork.com
• Steve over at Action Figure Toy Review
• Guy over at The Big & Small Screen
• Jay Amabile over at The Sexy Armpit
• Ryan over at Tilling the Soil
• Christian over at The Atomic Geeks
• The Launchpad comic book store
• Chunky B over at Eclectorama
• and most importantly my wonderful wife who gives me the time to do this.

I’m sure I forgot some people to thank, and I sincerely apologize for that.  With so many people viewing the blog, there are obviously lots of lurkers out there.  I’d like to encourage you lurkers to post a comment or drop me an e-mail.

Thank for reading!  See y’all here same time next year!