Party up in here, up in here


I almost missed my party day again, I was sitting here procrastinating from an assignment thinking 'hmmmm, the 20th, there was something about today wasn't there'. Then it hit me, so grab a hat and a sandwich, kick back and lets do this thing.

I don't remember why this site got started, the three of us (yes there are actually 3 people here, the other two are just really good at hide n' go seek) each had our own blogs, but its probably safe to assume it was some kind of procrastination project. I do remember brainstorming for the name of this thing, and I have to say I'm happy we went with 'Bacon Strips' over ideas like 'Suck My Blog' and other titles that were only funny for about 5 minutes. Wait, thats not true because I giggled just now as I wrote 'suck my blog'. Although if we had gone with that just think what kind of picture I would have had to put up there instead of a sandwich. I say we made the right call.

In our first year we've had 220 posts, some of which are actually worth reading. Suprisingly of those 220 only 37 made some kind of meantion about fantasty sports. Yes I actually went through the archives and counted, thats why I throw the most kickass blog parties, pure dedication. Remember those "weekly" Top 5 lists we were supposed to do? Well we ended up with 19 of them, when in theory we should have had 104, guess we kinda dropped the ball on that one. We watch a lot of TV around here and the television shows House and LOST were brought up 16 and 13 times respectivly. Sadly Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers had the same number of meantions as Canada's Golden Boy Chad Kroger with two.

According to our site meter doohickey we had about 5500 hits in our first year, but that also counts the 15 times a day that I check this site so I think that means we really only had something like 25 hits, which is pretty cool to me at least. The two biggest search engine events in our sites history were (not counting people looking for "bacon strips" because thats just too easy) people trying to understand Young Jeezy's 'patty cake, patty cake microwave' lyric and the folks looking for pictures of olympian Tanith Belbin in various stages of undress. I'd like to take a second to personally apologize to those people for not having the content they were looking for. I'd also like to thank Desiree and Jona, Hendo and the H77 Crew, Maine and the ESC for sending people our way because honestly everyone can use more bacon in their lives.

Okay well thats all I had to really say, and I was thinking about being a dick and just kicking you out right here. But don't you hate when a party host starts flicking the lights on and off just because someone puked in their pillow? I know I do, so stick around as long as you like, help yourself to another sandwich and please, don't puke in my pillow. And if you're gonna stay, why don't you check out a few of my favorite posts:
My first 'real' post
Tom's Foul Ball Experience
My Top 20 Movie Quotes
Steve is so angry
I love this picture
This is for the Hulkamaniacs
Our site's longest post
Mike eats a hot dog
Best. Video. Ever.

On that note, we cue the music. Take er easy folks.
- posted by Mike @ 1:31 PM