10,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I finally made it. Almost two years in the making, I finally had my 10,000th visitor! I told you this Monday was gonna kick some ass!

Two years ago it all started with a sarcastic ode to food and Michelle Malkin's lips. At the time, I figured, man, I can do this blogging bidness. I'm funny, sarcastic, intelligent and people will want to listen to what I have to say. If Michelle Malkin, a well-educated journalist can snark at the world, well hell, so can I.

Boy, was I wrong.

What I've found out in two years is that blogging is much harder than I thought and I'm not nearly as funny as I thought I was. I'm actually a dull, narrow-minded, introverted douchebag who has no skill at analysis, writing or anything for that matter. I am a dirty, unwashed vagabond floating through the intertubersnet of life. Struggling to keep afloat in the filthy flotsam and jetsam of the blogosphere.

Yet, some of you come here. You read. Some go insane. Some comment. And some never come back. Is it me? Is it me? Yes, it's me, but I'm just one side of a very complex coin. Polluted, grumpy, ill-mannered. But through all that, I am certainly one thing, if anything. . .and that is grateful.

Grateful for y'all, every one of you, the ones who remain and patronize. It's not all about me, it's about all of us and this is for you. Our gentle, singular and minuscule contribution to the whole. The whole of life.

Congratulations you, all of you. This is yours as much as it is mine. Thank you.

And for visitor #10,000 from Avon, Ohio who came here looking for "muslims doing good", here are four muslims doing GREAT things!!

My friend Melis Danişmend and Üçnoktabir performing my favorite song: