The Dudes, with their abject failure of a literary agent, O Ceallaigh (aka OC and The Amoeba), first descended onto the blogosphere from a rented room in Berkeley, California on New Year’s Day in 2006. They’ve moved from California to Maine to Washington to Hawaii to Washington again to Hawaii again (where they’ve finally managed to stay put, for now anyway), picking up a Quilly along the way. They’ve stayed on the blogosphere (on four different sites, two of which have since vanished), while the thing that was the blogosphere in 2006 moved to Facebook to Youtube to Twitter to Instagram to Tiktok. And a lot of, um, stuff has gone down. O Ceallaigh thought it might amuse someone out there to see just what kind of stuff has gone down over the last fifteen years, and how it looked at the time to OC and the Dudes and their gaggle of weird buddies.
One year ago this week. Amoeba’s Lorica: By Any Other (Eww) Name
Two years ago. He and She: Crazed
Five years ago. Amoeba’s Lorica: Signs
Ten years ago. Screwtape the Third: The Safe Road to H.E.L.L.
Fifteen years ago. Of Old Bicycles, Massachusetts Mud Season, and the Absence of Cool