This blog is this many as of today:

That's right. I've been writing Monkey Muck for four years now. It's been wildly fun and a great creative outlet for me. I've been very lucky to have built such a great community of readers and commenters, Chinese spammers and asshole-ish trolls and family members aside that is.


I hit my stride and found my style and voice relatively early on. It only took me a few months to see that the best way for my blog to move forward was with a mix of the political, the pop cultural, the personal, and the purely silly. As much as I love politics, both national and international, it would get pretty boring around here if I only wrote and ranted about politics all the time. So I mix it up.

That's how I rolls bitches.

And it's all worked well enough for me to have made some of the best friends I've ever had in my life through this blog. I'm a lucky guy to have made most of your acquaintances and to have those blog friendships deepen through Facebook and email. I'm also lucky to have formulated a good policy that cuts trolls and assholes who insult me and my readers off quickly. Some of the people I've cut off have whined that I took away their freedom of speech by deleting their comments as soon as I see them. But stupid people like them forget that just because they have the freedom to say what they like doesn't mean I have to listen to them. And that includes family members of mine.

But by and large the people who read and comment on here are nice, well educated, and a pleasure to have around. And while I don't write this blog for them, I write it for me, it's my pleasure to share it with them.

I have no plans to ever stop writing this blog so it looks like you're stuck with me for a very long time.