Summer is for bloggers

(Although it is winter here.) I have been at this for four years now. In that time, I have graduated college, studied in Argentina and lived in New Zealand, worked at several jobs (some odder than others), gone steady (and unsteady), written reams of paper, ruminated on war and growth and the end of the long American century, grown up (somewhat), and so on and so forth.

In a mode of smug self satisfaction, I will quote of of Todd Snider's many songs about riffraff and lowlifes:

Did we get arrested? No we did not
We didn't shoot anyone - we didn't get shot
We didn't hurt anyone - at least not a lot
And we got what we wanted
We got what we wanted.

In other news, Anne and I have a new virtual project: Bookaneering. We will be doing weekly reviews of bookshops in our areas - Chicago is where she is, and New Zealand is my beat. We will expand (geographically) when we move. Until then...