One Year of Coletrain.org

It's been fun this past year. Running a successful blog is no easy thing, even though it feels like mental masturbation when you are writing at work. Plus it is interesting to see what grabs peoples interest, and how people perceive what is just a normal day for me. Also it is great working with Miss Daisy and Nati, two talented writers who not only add content - but make my own blog a daily destination for humour and insight. I learned a lot in this past year.

• There are more American Idol fans online than I care to recognize. Nati's pieces on AI shot our Alexa ranking through the roof.
• The idea of Queen and 50 Cent getting together excites A LOT of people. Too bad Freddy Mercury is dead.
• I wrote around 17 posts on teachers fucking students or moms banging the kid next door over the past year. These are just the publicized incidents - I had no idea this happened all the time. Now I really wish I went after Ms. Foxhall's niece (my HS biology sub.)
• Writing consistently is a lot of work. Brandon over at WWTDD.com and Nate DeGraaf at PointsInCase.com have great stuff out five days a week. Trying to keep that schedule and have an office job is nervewrecking - it would be nice if I could do it for a living.
• Google is this site's best friend. We get more return readers from random Google searches than from any other source.
• It is always a good idea to make fun of Scientologists. Always.
• Some people think the stories I write aren't true. Fuck them. Every story I write is completely true, although I will change names if I think the principals involved will bitch. Just because most people refuse to take the bull by the horns and live life doesn't mean that everyone else's life sucks too.
• Everyone loves Jessica Biel's ass. My copy of a WWTDD pic is linked all over cyberspace.
• Matt Cole is the name of a famous gay porn star. I am still not happy about that.
• In order to write well, one must live well. I am fortunate to have lived a charmed life - one filled with blessing and challenges, friends and foes, lessons learned and more to relearn. Every writer that I have admired - from fellow Hannibalian Mark Twain, to Taki - has taken time to travel the world, meet new people, and try to understand what it is all about. Only then is what you have to write worth reading.

This next year, you will see some more improvements to the site. I am also looking to design some better T-Shirts. If you have any ideas that are as funny as this one (pic above), then leave a message under the comments.