Snacked Up is One Year Old!

Well, it may surprise some of you to learn that, as of today, Snacked Up is one year old. Accept this stock image of a birthday cake as shorthand for my excitement:

Pictured: A donut. Needless to say, I slipped up on the image research.

365 days after my initial foray into the wonders of putting words on a screen, and things couldn’t be looking healthier. I might even be inclined to declare my blog as the best thing ever to have existed. Ever. I won’t, though, if purely out of humility.

All in all, if I have just one regret, it’s that I decided to write that pesky ‘bi-weekly’ line in the header. Good lord, talk about false promises. As an actual calculation, things have worked out closer to one post every fortnight. You can’t win ‘em all, I suppose.

Regardless, if there’s one thing I don’t want to do, it’s get too sentimental towards my fledgling little blog here. However, I would like to mirror my New Year post and sincerely thank everyone who has taken the time to comment, email, subscribe, like and share; because ultimately, you’re validating my worth as a human being.

(Just kidding, although you are giving my inbox a much-needed dose of quirk).

Completely unrelated, but I’ve been waiting a whole year to get this image back out.

Funnily enough, my personal highlights from the last year are mostly absent from this blog, still sitting in the limbo of my hard-drive, waiting for a belated posting. However, I stand by the three 5/5 scores that were eventually posted (A Serbian Film, Bastion and Drive), and even more so by the single 1/5 that slithered its way out. However, like always, remember that everything I say is up for debate, and thus you’re more than welcome to email or comment letting me know just how much of an asshole I am for suggesting that Cabin Fever 2 is anything less than great.

All said, I suppose my final burning question is, ‘what the hell has this whole thing taught me?’ Well…

1. Jane Fonda’s confused face makes for a brilliant – if slightly puzzling – header image (The number of emails regarding the subject of that picture outweigh all other emails by a ratio of 2:1)
2. ‘Vietnam was nothing but explosions and Viet Cong getting punched in the face, until America ran out of bullets/fists and decided to call it a day.’
3. Stick a picture of Jim Carrey engaging in anal sexon your blog and the page views will go up by around 200%.

   Let’s see if this works a second time.

4. There’s a serious market for nude images of Page Hannah. (I’m currently funneling a large portion of this market into the closing paragraph of my Portal 2 review, like some sort of sleazy, page-view whoring Pied Piper.)
5. ‘When a topless man points his boner at you, you listen.’
6. Uwe Boll is potentially the greatest director of our time; we just don’t know it yet.
7. This blog still needs more explosions.
8. Despite actually being pretty darned fun, The Typing of the Dead is an acceptable example of everything wrong with videogaming.
9. Acer laptops are an affordable alternative to central heating.
10. You don’t want to mess with Ben Shockley.
11. The trailer music for Videodrome has completely fallen out of circulation. Apparently the internet does have some boundaries.
12. …and finally, that most important lesson of all: 

Here’s to another (hopefully slightly more productive) year. Thanks for your time, folks