I want to take a moment before this day runs out and note
that this blog was launched on August 20, all of eight years ago. Eight years!
I don’t know how that happened! I was
just fooling around, honest, and I never thought I’d make it past eight days,
maybe 8 weeks tops and, well, look at us now. I just checked my stats counter,
and we’ve clocked a bit over two million visits in eight years. Two million!
How did that happen?
Posting has been sparse over some time now, due mostly to
real life butting in. Lots of things keeping me busy, and I won’t even mention
my recent Hard Drive meltdown and the loss of research material I had failed to
backup properly. Otherwise, it’s been a very good time, being busy with my
graphic novels for the French market, and busy with TV, movie and web series
writing, all good news for a freelancer. I also was the subject of a TV
documentary, how about that! On the side, I never stopped researching Frankenstein in all its
aspects and I’ve amassed tons of great new material.
Now I’m on top of things again and I’m undertaking a much
busier posting schedule. Very shortly, I’ll be running a series celebrating the
80th anniversary of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) and, after three
years of research, I’ll be posting about the Forgotten Frankensteins of the Thirties! Earlier this year, I made a pilgrimage to Malibou Lake just outside LA, where they shot the Little Maria scene for
FRANKENSTEIN (1931) and I’ll be sharing that, and lots more finds and surprises
over the days, weeks and months to come.
I made a lot of real friends here over the years, and I got
to visit with some of you as I traveled to New York, Louisville, London, Paris
and Los Angeles. I hope to see you all again, and meet new friends along the
way. You all are the reason I keep doing this.
So join me, and do have a slice of birthday cake, won’t
you?
15 comments:
I don't have cake--alas only late night toast and an cocktail (pathetic I know). Congratulations. I've enjoyed reading since discovering Frankeinstenia in 2010. I really look forward to more. Cheers!
That cake is delicious...all frosting and pixels. Just the way I like it.
Congratulations, Pierre, and Happy Anniversary! It's been a great eight years and here's to eight or eighty more.
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Congratulations on 8 years, Pierre. Your blog has been an inspiration.
It was a magnificent blog eight years ago and it's eight times as magnificent now. My adoring gratitude, Pierre! And here's to many more seasons, a book in three volumes, and a movie adaptation.
(All I have at hand is a Twinkie that has been re-wrapped after being dipped in bourbon-flavored dark chocolate. Sort of a Frankencake, I guess, that has been cobbled together from other dessert stuffs. Cheers.)
Happy eighth Birthday. And many more of them.
Enjoy the Frankensteinia blog very much. Many interesting articles and archival photos.
Here's to, say, another 80 years!
A hearfelt salute, Pierre! May your hideous progeny continue its wonderful life for many years. (And let me know, next time you're in NYC...)
-Craig
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