20,000 hits and a bloggiversary

photo by Baltimore’s ghetto fabulous Cara Levy.

Remember two months ago when I was bragging about getting 10,000 blog hits in ten months? Well in the short time since then, that number has doubled to more than 20,000 total blong rips.

It’s been pretty rad too. Ed Zipco, truly crazy diamond and one of my personal photography heroes, gave me a job at my favorite Brooklyn magazine, Chief Mag. You can catch me over there under the moniker, ‘quetzalcoatl2012,’ writing about the occult and other miscellaneous hipster bullshit.

Also in that two months, I realized the foolishness of my twitterphobia, and settled my own little piece of twitteronia. I blame my fucking nerd room mates, @kkrahel and @isayhello, fuck you guys/thank you guys.

Oh, and you may have been around for the New School Occupations, the first of which inspired the embarrassing NYU cafeteria standoff. It will be interesting to see what happens to all this student activism now that school’s out. Will naive first-year New York transplants become embittered or stay angry and continue to ‘fuck shit up?’

I regress, let’s get back on topic. At this time last year, I was walking out the door of my Queens apartment and not stopping ’till Mexico City. I was nervous and didn’t have a permanent home again until I settled in El Centro Historico about a month later.

Seriously kids, if you are bored and have nothing better to do, save up some money and disappear for six months. I completely endorse the concept of romantic adventure and straying from your expectations.

So that’s where this blog started, and it’s come a long way. Now that blogging is my job and people look at this shit, I’ve decided to take it to a new phase. Starting this week, Exquisit Corps may more fittingly be referred to as an Exquisite Corpse. I’ll be taking on serials and columns from my weird friends and any decent writers, artists or photographers who would like to contribute. It might be a little buggy and slow at first. But just like a year ago, it’s my first time doing this and is bound to be a learning process that improves with time.

So take a few minutes to become acquainted you damn kids, with your street boners and your hamster dance. Give me between 30 seconds and 45 minutes to prove that blogs are still relevent and enjoy a funny story or two. Then subscribe, bookmark, digg, delicious, twitter, facebook link or whatever and come back soon for much more.