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Arjewtino
- What? Don?t they serve bread at Mizzou?
- No concussions at this blogger happy hour
- I learned several new words today
- The greatest season finales in history: A Blogger Happy Hour
- It?s the end of Movember as we know it, and I feel fine
- DC Blogs Photography Contest
- Gawker keeps stalking me
- New York City? Get a rope
- Trivia night and absurdity: A Movember Update
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Blogroll
- 23/6
- Average Jane
- Blonder Than You
- Bridal Bird
- Caged Bird Sings
- Citizen of the Month
- Collateral Damage
- Culinary Couture
- Freckled K
- Grateful Dating
- Hey Pretty
- I Now Pronounce You
- I Wish I Was Like You, Easily Amused
- Life of Red
- Listen to Leon
- Love is Blonde
- Magic Jewball
- Playaz Ball
- Roissy in DC
- Roosh
- Seeking John Galt
- Starting Today
- The Brooklyn Boy
- Tickle My Kittens
- What Would J. Crew Do?
Arjewtino.com, which first began as a small, personal online diary experiment over at , is now one-year-old.
I launched my blog on July 31, 2006, with about me yelling at a deaf guy during a softball game. In my defense, the guy was British.
My very first blog entry. Click for better view.
Over the ensuing 12 months, I wrote some pretty awful crap that entertained you guys, attended well-documented blogger happy hours, made some new friends who I would now consider inviting to my wedding, met some bloupies who sometimes scared the be-Jeebus out of me, and uploaded dozens of photos of myself to make all of you swoon.
More one-year blogiversary trivia:
Number of posts: 175 (109 on arjewtino.blogspot.com; 66 on arjewtino.com).
Number of visits: 56,119
Number of pages viewed: 98,173
My favorite blog post to write (tie): Opening Day and How to Eat for Free in DC
Most read blog post (thanks to Wonkette): The Virginia DMV is anti-Semitic
Most commented-upon blog post: Suck it, Brazil! Er, I Mean, Mexico…! (72 comments)
First DC blog I ever read:
My favorite uploaded photos: and Special Ed
My favorite video uploaded to my blog:My strongest blog influences: , , and Blogger happy hours I was too chicken to go to:
Blogger happy hours I attended: 11
Blogger happy hours I co-hosted: 5
My biggest fan: The Princess
My most consistent reader: Baby Bien
Funniest commenter I’ve never met: Platypus
Angriest commenter: GoPats
Friendships nearly lost due to Alyssa Milano:
Biggest help setting up my blog: Roosh
Money earned through blogging: $2.26
Money spent on blogging: $49.80
Times I wished I had an anonymous blog: 4,307
If this list sounds familiar, that’s because .
As a one-year birthday present to my blog, I installed a couple of new plugins, including Top Commenters and Most Commented Posts, both of which you can see on the right-hand sidebar below the blogroll.
Comments
When you say “money earned”, you mean “money picked up on the street while walking to happy hour”, don’t you?
Sadly, no.
Happy 1 year! I always enjoy reading your posts!
Rock on! I’m in the top 5 commenters!
You’re on everyone’s Top 5, Jo.
If I start commenting multiple times, you know it’s my shallow attempt to get higher on your list.
Will you celebrate with a fanny pack party?
Fanny Pack Party? That’s crazy enough to work!
…yeah, but I’m totally whuppin’ Jo’s ass.
What has two thumbs and is the top commenter here?
You’re probably the top commenter on EVERYONE’S blog, buddy!
Angriest? I resemble that. And thanks for admitting a blog is actually a diary.
In fact, you should start future posts, Dear Diary: and have Dear Diary happy hours from now on.
Thanks for making my case.
I have a suspicion you’d be my top commenter if you could just settle on a name.
Congrats, I remember my first year when everything was so sweet. Actually my two years is coming up (like now) and I’m going the other point of the what I’ve learned from all of this. But you do keep it real…. or at least really funny. Again congrats. As us kids are saying now again peace up A town down.
“Peace up A town down.” Right, can you hear me saying that in a way that is even remotely cool?
this will mark my 69th comment. hehe…i said 69. yeah, that goes along with the theme of your blog fabulously.
happy blogiversary. your very special award is in the mail.
I’m already getting a fanny pack. And you already gave me a great birthday present in the form of a particular photograph. What could this be?
as if to prove my point… perhaps the pack deserves a birthday candle?
You make my blog rated PG-13. Thank you.
Not true. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t top commenter on Brunch Bird’s blog when it was around. I mean, I totally hate her.
…she’s not going to read this, is she?
She’s probably still recovering from severe sunburn to her fragile skin. So I think you’re ok…for now.
Tell the yankees to stop sucking in so many different ways.
Happy Anniversary.
Thanks, GS. Great to meet you on Friday night.
I am honored. mate…so much so I had two eggs upon reading your blog this morning. Inside each egg was another little egg, ad infinitum, to the sub-atomic level.
It was an ovo-tastic version of those Russian nesting dolls. Except with more fecal matter smeared on the outside.
…and we’ve met. Remember when you woke up at 6AM, hungover, with a mysterious cleveland steamer on your chest, topped with an Aussie flag?
That was me.
Now I know you’re lying: I would never wake up at 6am if I were hungover.
But now i suddenly feel like having an omelette for lunch.
Is it a coincidence that today is the trading deadline? I wonder what wordpress could get for you in the open market.
For my blog? Maybe an egg. And what I-66 said below.
5 quetzales and a fanny pack.
Ask me someday about the Pittsburgh breakfast buffet.
Hi Arjewtino! Happy One-Year Anniversary! I’ve only been reading your blog for a couple of months (mainly because I moved from NOVA to Washington State and I miss DC so much, and out of all the DC blogs I checked out, I like yours the best). I hope The Princess takes you out to diner to celebrate! Keep up the good work!
Hey, good point! She should take me out to dinner. Or at least let me drink some of the wine she hoarded last night.
Happy Anniversary, AJT. 
You can stuff your made-up hanging curve e-mail accounts in a sack, mister!
(deep blush) This comment space won’t hold an “Awwwwwww” of proper length. Thank you and nicely done for the past year.
I could set the character length to “infinity” to properly hold your “awwwwwwwwww”s.
Uh oh.
Now you’re not even trying, you just want to keep the Top Commenters lead.
Oh and I only ever got one request during my time blogging for a puffy foam “Brunch Bird #1!” finger. And the person who wrote in asking for it also wanted “I-66″ stitched in gold on the back. Just sayin’.
And I returned from the weekend toasted golden. …Well, I returned toasted, at the very least.
top commenter is like having the best neon-highlighted, water-cooled, dual core gaming rig at a LAN quake party.
this post exempt from my total count.
Luckily for me, I don’t understand what that means.
You have to respect Torre’s “old school” bush.
mazel tov, darling!
you were my fifth full-fledged blog crush. second if you only count the dudes. please don’t retire any time soon.
a l’chaim!
This is why I go around at each blogger happy hour chanting, “I’m number two! I’m number two!” all the while glaring at Number One.
Happy happy, baby!
**As for your wedding - I’m coming anyway, so you may as well put me on the guest list - with a plus one, if you please. And I’ve already picked out a lovely set of Martha Stewart bath towels for you and yours. It was either that or a gift certificate for Red Lobster. I took a shot.
I’d rather go to Red Lobster. Sometimes they have shrimp festivals!
Happy first blog-day. My second one is coming up, and I have to say that still nobody reads it! LOL! I have, however, never been under the illusion that I am actually exciting.
Cheers!
I count as someone who reads it. And after me, no one else matters.
Congrats!! You are such a breathe of fresh air. Or is it that you remind me of Chef online? Or that you guys blogrolled to each other having no idea of the connection?
Or the fact that your a big, proud Jew like me?
Or the blue eyes/dark hair combo that we share and we could potentially be related?
Nah, its just that we love you 
It’s probably all of the above.
I’m milking the blue eyes/dark hair combo as long as it takes me.
I am trying to set aside my deep, deep envy over the fact that you’ve spent less than $50 on your blog enough to wish you a happy blogoversary. But the Yankees are up 16-3 so I’m in a fine mood. Mazel Tov!
I’d spend another $50 to make sure the Yankees never make the playoffs in my lifetime again.
Happy Anniversary! Are we supposed to get you a traditional gift of paper?
That would be pretty ironic for a blog.
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Roissy OWNS the top commenter position on another blog.
All you need now to be an elite blogger like me is custom smilies:
Never! I’ll never be like you!
Congrats on the one year bloggerversary! I’m going to add to my 27 comments making it a sweet 28.
Thanks, mm. Too bad, 27 is my favorite number.
Congrats on a year of blogging. Um, question. About these bloupies…How do I get some of those?
It’s a three-step process:
1. Become as good-looking as me.
2. Write killer blog posts like mine.
3. Change your name to Arjewtino.
happy 1 year.
apparently i’m having an identity crisis bc my name is definitely on there twice. oh well. -shrugs-
Blogs evolve and change over time, and so it’ll be interesting to watch where Year 2 takes you. Have fun with it, but try to maintain your admirable sense of balance and don’t take any of this nonsense too seriously.
You won’t need to spend $50! They’re pretty much accomplishing it on their own.
Felicidades! It’s great to have bloggers like you to always make us laugh and think of great ways to eat for free. My favorite post to date is the one about your billetera and lack of ink in Guatemala.
Oh, and milk the eyes/hair thing. I come from a family of blue and/or green eyes and black hair and always thought the light eyes/dark hair combo is the best. Sadly, I only got the black hair and will forever be pissed at the genetics that robbed me of my chance to belong to your super special group.
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Happy Birthday!!! Sorry I only got to meet you briefly at the June HH.