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Monday, December 07, 2009
A New Day Upon Us: Slang Editorial, Version 3.0

Friends: 2009 is nearly over and, 609 posts later$$$, I'm still here, blogging away.

It's been a long time coming, but as any of you reading this via the old-fashioned website method (vs. a post-guts-only RSS feeder like Google Reader) can see, after ten months of Slang v. II, I'm pleased to present the next and newest incarnation: Slang Editorial v. 3.

Thanks goes to The Royal Scourge for the design, which I think does a fantastic job distilling 2009 Slang Editorial to a bare essence. What the fuck I would do in life without friends like these, I just don't know.

Since we're about to start looking forward, I thought it might be fun to take a last quick look back on what was...

A Brief History of Slang Editorial

Slang Beta

The original Slang was a simple Blogger template at the address slangeditorial.blogspot.com, begun in May 2004 during senior year finals week by Alex Hot Doorknobs himself as a place for him and JonKK to dash off musings on rap music, the Yankees and basketball. 9 posts and four months later, and the rest of the team--Ezruh, StepfatherFactory and myself--were invited on-board and things started taking off###. I wish I had some snapshots of this era of Slang because I have absolutely no memory of what it looked like.

Slang v. 1:

About 18 months and 217 posts later, in March 2006 we decided to get all fancy and buy our own domain at SlangEditorial.net. Ezruh did a nice spiffy site design--including the cute and fun 'tapes n tapes banner' above--and we launched on March 18, 2006, bringing us into the future (and further away from Blogger).

This was sadly the tail end of the golden first wave of Slang Editorial, as nearly all of us began posting far more sporadically or even not at all. Ezruh continued writing a few times a month, but gone were the days of Slang as group forum. Slang output slowly trickled to a halt, and, after a brief attempt by me to start things up again in Fall '07, a unknowingly final*** post went up on December 18 and the lights more or less went out on Slang for good after a measly 97 posts.

"Jeffrey Beaumont Inferno", lovingly made by design wiz Ben D.

Hyperliving:

As many of you know, I got back into the blog game at the beginning of 2008 as I decided to embark upon my Hyperliving weekly activity project at Hyperliving.blogspot.com. Learn more about that project here.

H yperliving was a great success both on the personal development/goal accomplishment and the me writing regularly fronts, but I aborted the project in July and more or less stopped writing. I tried once again to get going with Slang in October 2008, but after 12 posts I was done again by the end of November. As 2009 rolled around and I began to want to go back to writing, I decided to pick Hyperliving up again in February and try it as a monthly activity. As a ceremonial way to bring me back home to the heart of where I ultimately wanted to be, I made the first month's goal to write every day and start posting again here at SlangEditorial.net.

Happily to say, I had little trouble "getting back in the swing of things", as I wrote 40 posts in February and felt good doing it@@@. But most significantly, I was finally able to achieve a goal I'd set for myself four and a half years earlier and had never quite reached--really writing nearly every day of the week, even if only in the form of short blurbs here and there. I don't know how or why it took me so long but I'm just happy I've finally gotten here.

Slang v. 2:

With the new writing and the fact that Slang was now fully a J. Beaumont solo effort (plus executive ghostmastering from Jayson Greene), I decided that it would make sense to revise the site to reflect both the fact that Slang was getting a fresh start and to incorporate that this start was coming out of the development of Hyperliving. I dumped on the text "Slang Editorial V II" (which, gah, sans "." after the V led many to think I had written the Roman numeral for seven rather than "version 2") and added the Hyperliving brick wall to replace the formerly orange Slang background, and boom, I had myself something new and old at the same time.

Slang v. 3:

Slang v. 2 was definitely a step in the right direction, and a very necessary change, but finally this fall, after proving to myself for sure that I was in it to win it in the Slang game, I decided I was ready for a fresh start and contacted my good friend The Royal Scourge about helping me come up with something new. We chatted briefly about what I wanted and what to look for and Mike kicked some things around for a bit, but now, finally...

Here we are. And feeling good for the road ahead.

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I have no idea how long I'll keep doing this stuff, honestly. There have now been 923 posts published on Slang Editorial, and at some point in the next few months I look forward to hitting 1000. I will always have a desire to tell stories and to create because it's who I am, but for the time being I blog because I can make the time and I have the brain power.

I think I've got a while left though, and I look forward to seeing where 2010 and beyond takes me. And Alex, Jon, Steppie, Ezruh: I salute you.

NOTES:

$$$ - Seriously, this is my 609th published post on SlangEditorial.net in 2009!

### - Honestly, I can't really believe the first post I ever wrote was about Tim Fucking Westwood.

*** - A final, TERRIBLE post.

@@@ - Including, perhaps most notably, providing Mark Jaffe with the inspiration to coin them term "deprarious", which is without question my word of 2009.

Labels: BEAUMONT, case studies, VICTORY

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 12/07/2009 01:46:00 AM 1 comments

1 Comments:

jayson said...: And I salute you, Nihilist. A tremendous accomplishment, and this looks really slick.

Also, that Tim Westwood post you linked to is ADORABLE. Extra-special bonus points for Doorknobs comment:

" jim jones man, i swear to god that guy is great."; 12/07/2009 04:27:00 PM