There are times when I sit down to write my latest hilarious blog and I discover I have absolutely no idea about what to write. I turn to the mrpeenee Automatic Post Topic generator and all I get is static. Goddamit. Surely I can come up with something to complain about, but no, I get no traction. And then I remember, fuck this. I cannot get fired, I am my own boss, I am the master of my fate.
But while sulking about my absolute lack of ideas, and how my blog is an utter task master, and how I really want to drag it behind the barn and shoot the mother fucker, I remembered that I had not celebrated mrpeenee's anniversary this year. My blog's actual birthday is July 24, 2007 anno domini and every single year I am amazed to have passed yet another milestone (see "drag it behind the barn and shoot it.")
Nineteen years is an impressive record for someone with as little attention span as I have. When I started down this ridiculous path, I certainly had no idea I would stick around this long. My blog has outlived my husband, several cats, David Bowie, and frequently my will to write. If it weren't for the nekkid guys segment of each post I don't know how I would go on.
Every year as part of my anniversary salute, I pause to remember fellow bloggers who started out about the same time as me. There used to be a whole pack of us, but as blogging turned into a quaint novelty, almost all of them have dropped off. Jon, from Give Em the Old Razzle Dazzle, Mitzi from Clutter from the Gutter, the Mistress from Mistress Borghese, and Inexplicable Device from Inexplicable Device, are the few, the happy few still sticking it out. Tough old birds all and I lift a glass to salute them. Some who didn't make it this far are actually no longer on this side of the grass (LX, Kabuki Zero) and others simply wandered off out of this land of make-believe (Jason, Mean Dirty Pirate, the Cool Cookie, Cafe Muscato, and the much missed Fabulon). Mitten Drinnen, aka Norma Desmond remains as a frequent commenter and Mistress Infomaniac is a ghostly, ghastly specter who only rises from her grave once a year on her blogiversary. Whether you're still here or not, I remember you all with great fondness.
So anyway here's to mrpeenee, the finest blog on this page. Long may I wave.
And now back to our regularly scheduled nekkid guys:











Great way to celebrate a blogs birthday ( even if it is bit late). I blame the demise of blogs fully on twitter.
ReplyDeleteGreat naked guys as well. Loving red cap and more than happy to receive that package, I don't mind that kind of special delivery
I think blogs are dying out because they require reading and that is so passe.
DeleteA belated Happy Birthday... or as we say in Hawaii. Hau'oli la hanau.... I enjoying reading your musings... thanks for everything.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Hawaiian howdy.
DeleteI was a later comer to your blog but have loved it from the start of my reading it.
ReplyDeleteThe platform you use makes it hard for me to get to a post. I have had to figure out the convoluted path to be here on a number of occasions.
I applaud your plugging away at it. I always enjoy your posts.
The late Queen had a bagpipe player outside her window every morning while she had her breakfast. Maybe he was in San Francisco and knew where you lived.
Fucking Google is committed to starving the few blogs left here by choking off traffic to us. Fuck them. I will continue to whine and rant here even as the lights are turned off.
DeleteThen you can start a substack of your own. I don’t think picture can be post on substack. I come here for the stories and writing like everyone else. The most artist photos are a plus.
DeleteDarling! Happy anniversary! Thanks for all the lovely party snacks...
ReplyDeleteJx
PS Blogging's not a chore. It's a vocation.
I took vows of blogging as a virginal young novice and I will never give them up.
DeleteHappy anniversary! Thank you for something that is more intelligent than most of the podcasts I hear advertised.
ReplyDeleteThat bagpiper would bring out the evil bitch in me. I'd have dumped a bucket of ice water out the window.
Send the blond buttchops my way.
Anonymous, too
You are too kind sweetie. The bagpiper was actually an improvement over the usual screaming lunatics down there.
DeleteSweet cheeks and honey buns !
ReplyDeleteMike Betts and his lover Rick Wolfmier, what a pair they were and their ASSets :)
CA jock
They were quite a pair. Rick always seemed like a goofy beef head who enjoyed being taken advantage of.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are a dying breed, so bravo for sticking out. Congratulations, mepeenee! I'll raise a glass to you if Mr Parental Advisory has any white to hand. If not, I'm sure the UPS guy could deliver some liquid refreshment.
ReplyDeleteBravo for sticking 'it' out, 'mrpeenee' of course. (That "wine" must have gone to my head. And face, and all over my t-shirt.)
DeleteMr parental advisory certainly can fill out a t-shirt.
DeleteVery nicely!
DeleteAwww... Happy Blog Birthday, m'dear! Apologies for not visiting more often. My own blog is a blot of what it once was - it limps along in a haphazard fashion with an occasional post - I do admire those who've kept going.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
Sx
If I didn't treasure this blog as a outlet for my griping, I would have let it die years ago.
DeleteHappy Birthday Mr P and keep up the good work you are appreciated. I wouldn't mind a little play with Ups even though I haven't been feeling frisky of late. Sorry you have to endure the piper, open the window and throw an egg at him.
ReplyDeleteIs that the traditional British way of dealing with a piper?
DeleteHappy happy anniversary darling! I so admire your persistence.
ReplyDeleteThe penises are never not lovely, but I come for the attitude.
Never disappointed.
Sigh, dear Kabuki.
Does anyone know if any of the "old guard" are even still alive? Thombeau? Muscato? TJB? Jx
DeleteOh, Kabuki. Of all of them I think I miss him the most.
DeleteHappy Blog-o-versary, sweetpea! And thank you for the gorgeous photos! xoxo
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogaversary, glad you hung in there all these Years. I began in 2009 when my then 9 Year Old Grandson, whose a Child Prodigy, set it up for me and told me what a Blog was. Since Letter Writing had gone the way of the Dinosaurs, and so, here I now am entrenched in The Land, but I do so miss those Bloggers who are no more too. The Land ain't what it used to be, but, what is? It's still a wonderful Community, Blog On!
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