1,000 comments
Thursday this blog hit a milestone: its 1,000th reader comment, courtesy of Kristin McConnell. Cool, eh?
Granted, probably 82 of those 1,000 comments are from "Hal Linker," but it's still an impressive number. It seems that as long as I write about nostalgia or food this blog will never get lonely. (To paraphrase Bogie in "Casablanca" about the letter of transit.) Sometime I'll have to write about nostalgic food and see if the blog explodes.
Anyway, thanks to all for contributing.

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Hey David,
Congrats on your 1,000th blog! Why, I'll bet you once thought you'd never obtain that milestone anytime soon! You can thank your column in January, "Things That Aren't Here Anymore." Here's hoping for 1,000 more and beyond. Keep up the great work! :)
[Yeah, that single post made up for a lot of others that got no response. Ditto with the recent "Hal Linker"-related posts. You got me to 1,000 a couple of dozen comments faster than I would have otherwise, Randall. -- DA]