Generally, I don't like Internet memes. They're usually annoying and pointless and when I see one on my LiveJournal friends list I usually scroll past it without reading.
That said, I've recently been Memed by LitKicks. The meme is to make a list of the first sentence of the first post on this site every month for the last year. Which actually seems like an interesting way to look at the year in Wet Asphalt. So in the interest of that and of being a good sport, here we go:
January 2007: "Wet Asphalt is officially on hiatus until March 1st."
Well, that takes care of February too.
March 2007: "I am an ignoramus." From "The Future of the Fantastic: New Wave Slipstream Fabulism" by Me.
Good to know.
April 2007: "I contacted Kelly Link both about my various articles about her work and the first Future of the Fantastic article." From "Kelly Link responds to the Future of the Fantastic" by Kelly Link and Me.
May 2007: "Bad criticism is more boring to write than it is to read and I don't know why people would do it." From "The World's Shortest Critical Manifesto" by JF Quackenbush.
June 2007: "A light bulb salesman fell in love with a duck." From "The Duck" by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
July 2007: "Reader J. Newton Wilcox writes us:" From "LeGuin Calls out Slate" by J. Newton Wilcox.
August 2007: "Wet Asphalt is on hiatus for the month of August."
Clearly running the site is hard work.
September 2007: "When I started this website, it was with the idea that there would be many people working on it, and with the hope that we would get many submissions, this on the strength of the initial essays stating our position, and certain vague promises." From "Status" by me.
And here I give in and the site becomes more bloggy...
October 2007: "James Wood, I think, is in his element talking about Philip Roth." From Friday Round-Up" by me.
November 2007: "There's a fascinating article at The Arts Fuse about critic Edmund Wilson, which posits Wilson as the ideal blogger." From Friday Round-Up.
December 2007: "Today was day one of the New York Independent and Small Press Book Fair." From Report from the New York Independent Book Fair Day 1.
And there you have it, one year of first sentences in Wet Asphalt. Normally at the end of one of these things you tag some other people who then have to perform the meme as well. I am merciful, and will not do this.