Day 17 – A Piece of Who-Related FanArt

I made this for a blend challenge thing in 2005, according to the “date modified” tag in the file. Remember blend challenges? Good times.

Day 10 – A Who-Related Photo That You Took

This was one of my bedroom walls in 2006. Spot the Doctors!

Haha, had a crush on this dude back in the day. :)

(via itsbetsybitch)

Day 12 - Album you like, but you never thought you would: Blackout (2007) by Britney Spears

Back in middle school when Brit Brit got big (‘98/’99), she seemed, to me, to epitomize all the “cool” girls (oh, adolescent angst!) - but I did secretly think her songs were fun. And by 2007 (the year of Blackout’s release) I had finally come around. Lesson learned - you should never base your music choices around things you thought when you were 12/13.

I started up a British Comedy Club my last year in high school. Like, an official, teacher-has-to-sponsor-you deal. This is one of the posters I made to advertise it. I actually got a nice little group going! Every week, or every other week, or whatever, we got together in a classroom and watched Britcom vids and ate. Good times. :) I’m not sure if the club is still active, but it’s neat that the school let me start it up in the first place. :)

Confession: I used to run a Josh Groban fansite. And the site got mentioned in 2002 or so in an Oklahoma newspaper, for some reason. (My site was the lunaestas.com/josh one. It’s a dead link now.)

This reminds me that lunaestas.com is now 10 years old. 10 years old! Where did the time go? I still like the name, even though it’s really kind of dumb (combining the Latin words for “summer” and “moon” was really neat when I was 13 going on 14) and it looks a bit like the name of that sleep med, Lunesta.

Anyways. Fave site moments through the years: this layout, this 404 error image, that time one of Enya’s people contacted me to take down MIDIs (lol MIDIs), starting up T1AODN4 (that was when I got Frontpage!), adopting a fanlisting (my first fanlisting!) for the word “savvy” as used in Pirates Of The Caribbean (it was a pretty sweet fl I have to say, with sound clips and screencaps), posting this retrospective of my senior year of high school, uploading a clip I edited down to relevant scenes of the newly broadcast “Hung Up” video by Madonna for a group presentation in a journalism class my first semester at UMD (the project was something about racial stereotypes in the media, and “Hung Up” just sprang to mind), my Dana International site getting on the front page of Google when you search “Dana International” (not that that’s the only reason to run a site of course, but it does stroke your ego a bit if it happens), that time I was asked by a DVD company if I wanted a review copy of the Peter Cook DVD The Rise And Rise of Michael Rimmer and got not only the DVD but also cute little promo buttons with “Vote for Rimmer” slogans and such printed on them (what a neat surprise!), and getting an email from a visitor to lunaestas with pretty much the perfect description of me: “Hi, you are a very strange person but I do like your site!”

I can’t even begin to list all the cool people I’ve come in contact with through the years because of lunaestas.com. Here’s to 10 years more - and hopefully beyond that! - of lunaestas.com shenanigans.