A Blast From the Past

So, apparently after all of these years, my LiveJournal still exists in all of its pristine, holiday-themed form. Who knew?

Looking back at those salad days of 2004-2005, it's clear that my writing style has...pretty much not evolved at all. Posts are still filled with lots of lengthy, complex-clause-riddled sentences and links to places such as Ace of Spades HQ and the original pre-beta-male AllahPundit. But the TSL that authored those posts was in, some ways, a very different man. My writing is tinged with a fatalistic paranoia and references to my shrink, an indication of how badly I still suffered from heightened anxiety in the years after 9/11. It also often details my preferred escape of the time -- comics. The fantastical stories and mostly happy endings took me back to my childhood, a purely escapist fare to help me forget the sheer terror I felt in each and every waking (and sleeping) moment.

Still, there were good times. The Blog of TSL was where, via syndication, I prodded a certain erstwhile Cranky Conservative to begin his own blogging journey. It was also the first place I ever got linked to -- from Ace -- and also allowed me to make some decent blog friends at the time, such as Hans Brix (whatever happened to that guy?).

As to what's missing, well, its also weird to read it now and see it devoid of comments from a certain all-around blog groupie and best friend the first incarnation of Geek Soap Box would later bring me. And that is, still, the one thing that made this whole writing experience all so worthwhile.

Anyway, I am going to attempt to import some of these posts into Wordpress, so if you see anything weird happening with my RSS feed in the next few days, now you know why.