2008: The Year That Will Be

Well, we've finally burnt off the Year Ender Bender hangover. Two days later. We're less than a year old, and the New York Times says this week of binge drinking could be worrisome: "The more we have binged — and the younger we have started to binge — the more we experience significant, though often subtle, effects on the brain and cognition."

Well. It can't be helped. If we turn dumb, we turn dumb.

Hopefully for you, the loyal eyeballs, we'll stay sharp. Otherwise, where else will you regularly turn for a steady churn of You Tube clips, short lived themes, or the minutiae of our boring lives?

Sure, we may not be the first to report something, or 'find' something on the internet. As a matter of fact, we're almost always a few months, if not years behind. But that is not the point.

As the internet unfurls before our eyes, we are witnesses to a profound historical change. Part of that change is rewarding the second class citizens. No good at sports? At art? At writing? At creativity? Well, it's all become a bit easier, hasn't it?

Rather than sit at home on a Friday night cutting and pasting your crappy poetry and ironic imagery from old books to make a zine to be given out to 40 people, you can now pluck someone else's ideas from thin air, paste a link for proper attribution, then condense and riff. It's called being an aggregator.

And that's what we are for you. We're taking what we think is interesting regardless of its timeliness and we're saying, "check it out." Even if you don't check out all the trash on here, there is something comforting in going to a website and seeing its been updated, no?

For 2008, we plan on upping the ante, pushing it a little further and making this whole operation much sharper. 2007 was the best year for Regal Beagles. 2008 will be even better.

Thanks for coming by.