update and announcement

[lolmac]

Posting here has been a bit hit-and-miss lately; I've been on vacation and also sick, at the same time, which was certainly not a great combination.  This actually has nothing to do with the following Very Important Announcement.

Actually, two announcements!  The first one is that LOLMac is about to hit a multiple milestone.  On Tuesday the 13th, next week, it will have been a whole week without campaign ads LOLMac celebrates its FIFTH BIRTHDAY; and I will be posting LOLMac #1400.  (Although the archive starts on November 10th of 2007, the first few posts were backdated:  I actually started posting on the 13th.)

On the 13th, I'm going to do multiple posts:  I'm going to post a few faves from previous years, and wrap up the day with a particularly shirtless special LOL for #1400.


Second announcement:  after the anniversary, I am going to take a semi-holiday.  Five years is a long time, and 1400 jokes is a lot of time spent:  I posted a new LOL every day for several months starting in 2007, and have posted every weekday since August 2008, with only occasional missed days.  I'm a little tired and I don't want to hit actual burnout.  I still have ideas for new LOLs, and MacGyver episodes I haven't finished capping, and the wonderful pepper_field of rda_daily, Kate Ritter of http://rdanderson.com and the lovely folks of sj_everyday keep coming up with shiny new caps for me to play with.  I haven't run out of material, but I'm low on energy.

However, I'm not going to stop posting LOLs, since that would conflict with my master plan to get everyone on the internet addicted to captioned images of RDA just feel wrong.  Instead, I'm going to take my cue from the halcyon summer days of my youth, and make you sit through a month of re-runs.  I'll pick through and re-post some of the best of the 'Classic' LOLMacs from the first couple of years.  Many of the regular commenters and contributors here, especially the most prolific and creative, weren't around in the very early days (other than lothithil, I believe sidlj, macgyvergal and magnavox_23 hold the title of Longest Non-Lurker Tenure).  So, rather than go away for a month and recharge my batteries, I figured I'd see what fun could be had from the best of the existing material.  Some of my early ideas were, I still feel, some of my best.  I've been reposting the older items on Tumblr, but it's just not the same without the comments and the puns, the interaction and (of course) the crack.

If you have any faves that you'd like to nominate for inclusion, do feel free to mention them! 

And think of the possiblities!  Maybe thothmes will write crackfic!  Maybe katxander will come up with saucy comments that will inspire sidlj and kirsty841 to write porn!  Maybe jackwabbit will write some drabbles and idlewild_ will write a kick-ass action crossover and campylobacter will write more porn, inspiring magnavox_23 to do a sexy manip, and the wave of fannish glee will just expand from there. (Hey, we can hope, right?)

Or, at the very least, there will; be some smiles and bad jokes, and I'll start posting new LOLs in December, hopefully with a fresh reservoir of energy.

Hugs,
Beth

Comments

[macsme.livejournal.com]

First of all: Congratuations! Four-teen-hundred jokes! That's just incredible.
I can imagine you need a break. Hope you have a great one!

[lolmac]

*hugs you* It's lovely hearing from you again! I've missed you. I hope life is blooming at your end!

ETA: Actually, counting the mouseover texts, I guess it's 2800 jokes, isn't it? ;)