We began publishing this blog in November, 2004. Since then, we've published 4,260 posts, or, roughly two per day. At least 180 of these posts have focused on alien lore; 200 or so have been poems by Jack; three or four hundreds of Pablo Fanque's political pieces have appeared, as well as four hundred pieces of original art. We have also published numerous pranks and japes; two letters from George W. Bush to the editors of All This Is That, dozens of articles on country, rock, bluegrass, and jazz; around 20 articles on Growing Up Hillbilly, hundreds of articles on Presidents, and Presidential elections, many articles on pop culture, and dozens of articles on the folly of humans and the human condition. It's hard to sum up four thousand posts, but we have generally stuck to our mission of covering the paranormal, poetry, painting, politics, persiflage, and pop.
Over the next week, Pablo and Jack will be posting links to their favorite articles here. We will also include links to Google's top searches here (of which, interestingly, none appear on either Jack's or Pablo's lists.
We started out very tentatively six years ago, feeling our way along as learned how to blog and how to publish every day. We've gotten much better at it, and have published every single day for the last six years. We have published this blog from all around the country--from Boston, Vancouver and Victoria Canada, NYC, San Francisco/Berkeley, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Orange County, England, Mexico, Greece, India, and Turkey.
Stay tuned this week for some of our favorites.
Before we sign off today, we want to announce that we are adding another editor to our staff. Our friend, and reformed Republican, Mona Goldwater will become a regular contributor on, or before, December 1, 2010.
In closing, here is the very first piece to ever appear on All This Is That. It is a short poem by Jack, that appeared our first day, November 16th, 2004:
Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River
A rainbow loops over
the alder cathedral.
Dark clouds are sinking.
The Lamplighter
loans them a patch of land
and a heartbeat.
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Jack Brummet
(originally appeared in The Croton Review)
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