Curzon’s 1,000th post! Giving Credit

World War II Memorial, Washington DC

This post marks my 1,000th at ComingAnarchy. I could take the opportunity to boast that we’ve published 2,080 total posts, covering 547,000 total words. I could boast that our readership continues to expand over the two years and three months that we’ve been around. I could even boast that I’ve written close to as many posts as my two comrades combined.

But instead, I’m going to let my modesty get the better of me and instead share a big “thank you.” Most readers know that Robert D. Kaplan is the inspiration for this blog and our direction. But it was someone else who inspired me to blog: Robert Koehler of The Marmot’s Hole. I gave blogging a brief shot in 2003, but was unable to adjust to the writing style. Were blogs supposed to be articles? Essays? Online versions of term papers? I couldn’t accommodate blogging with with my regular schedule (i.e. real life) and promptly abandoned the venture. It wasn’t until I started reading Marmot in mid-2004 that I realized what a really great blog could be and how it should be written: sometimes brief, long when necessary, pithy, to the point, and not taking itself too seriously. Marmot was my role model from day one, and it was a real honor when he became a loyal reader and one of our top referrers for our first year. We have regularly cross-linked since then.

So in celebration of 1,000 posts here at CA, this is a special thanks to Marmot. Keep up the good work, and thanks for being my inspiration.