This isn't going to be as exciting as I had hoped.
Ever since I saw that my blog posts were numbering in the nineties, I thought and thought about what sort of thing I would write for post one-hundred. Would it be a clip-show-style journey through my past blog posts? Would it be a poem? Could it ever be something as popular as my mistletoe math post? As short and sweet and snappy as 90/10 (the two numbers do add to 100, after all)?
I then thought of lots of other ordinary things that I wanted to write but also wanted to wait until after the 100th post, as quite ordinary they were indeed.
[WARNING: This is going to be one of those times in which a valuable life lesson is learned in the context of a relatively workaday event.]
If I planned my life the same way I plan this blog, I'd probably do a lot of this:
(If my artistic genius is not clear enough for you, this is me chucking all of the things I have to do on the other side of a wall that represents a major life event or something. Also, this is not the only stick-figure-Alex on one side of a wall cartoon I've made in the past few days)
We can't postpone our lives because [Insert Milestone Here] hasn't happened yet, and I can't postpone writing about all the other cool things going on because this post might not be as awesome as the 100th episode of "Buffy."
This is what I know: sometimes we have to work on our birthdays; there's no reason why the 74th anniversary issue can't be as great as the 75th anniversary issue*; a round number or a perfect square doesn't magically make something special; sometimes writing the 100th post is just the thing you have to do before writing the 101st post.
This sounds a lot more "closing voiceover of hour-long TV serial drama**" than I mean it to sound (as a matter of fact, I'm running through the playlist in my brain right now trying to think of the perfect song/artist to underscore this moment), but I'm actually quite content and also quite excited to start my next hundred posts. As always, keep reading.
*Ten points to anyone who can get this reference.
**"Grey's Anatomy", "Sex and the City", "Doogie Howser" (was that an hour long?), etc...
Ooh, ooh, ooh, pick me! Is that a reference to Paris Geller's freakout over the 75th anniversary issue of the Franklin in Gilmore Girls?
ReplyDeleteTrue. The only reason that anyone cares about 75 or 100 is because we use a base 10 numbering system. Here is a list of which post this is in different bases:
ReplyDelete2: 1100100
3: 10201
4: 1210
5: 400 (only cool because 10=2*5)
6: 244
7: 202
8: 144 (kinda cool that this is a perfect square in base 10)
9: 121 (Hey so, is this one. So was 400 I guess.)
11: 91
12: 84
13: 79
14: 72
See, not so cool.
Hey, you like Buffy? I got Liz into Buffy and Angel long after the series was on the air - but we both watched all the episodes from both series, watching them as we collected the DVD sets.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know what you mean about the 100th episode. My favorite scene from that episode, where Giles gets very serious and yells at Buffy - that was the one scene, on all the season 5 disk-set, that skipped and distorted the episode for a second.
Also, the immediate response anyone who was watching that episode with me at the time was always this, when Dawn appears at the end: "I didn't know Buffy had a sister! They sure didn't show her much during the first 4 seasons."
Did you watch Firefly and Dollhouse too? Dollhouse started out strange and different - but by the end of the two seasons they got made, that had to stand out as one of most fascinating shows, with incredible ideas for how the world would end. I don't see why that show got canceled, though. FOX didn't like the horses and cowboys in Firefly (not ratings friendly), so Whedon came back to them with a series full of sex, espionage, action, and more sex appeal. (Everything TV executives could ever want.) But, again, they made use of the two seasons and failed to save the world in a pretty satisfying way.
Oh - and congratulations on you're 100th post!
@Lindsay-Correct! Ten points!
ReplyDelete@Erik-I'm definitely a huge Buffy fan (if I had to pick a favorite hour-long-show of all time, that would probably be it).
My favorite part about "The Gift" is the score that's played under Buffy's monologue at the end--so gorgeous! And also the whole battle and all of the different themes going on are great. It's probably not my favorite episode of the series, but it's definitely in the top ten.
I never watched Firefly or Dollhouse, but I did watch Angel for the first couple of seasons.
Have you seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog? Liz mentioned that she didn't think you had when I was chatting with her about it some months ago, but I think it would be right up your alley.
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