A dozen “Best Of” articles feels like a good haul for this quarantine project, so I’m going to declare it a wrap and move onto other things at this point. I hope the 12 pieces posted here either elicited “Oh, I remember that!” responses from long-time readers, or “Huh! That was interesting!” reactions from those who started following in the past decade. It was fun to re-read some of these old things, several of which I’d forgotten about, along with a lot of other aged items that I didn’t post on the blog.
While the articles posted here, plus new reflections on them, marked the public part of this little personal project, I actually spent a fair amount of additional times in “back of house” mode doing some other overdue clean-up work, and being The Destroyer. As a result of these activities, the site now only has 939 public articles, about a 15% reduction. I also, finally, killed off and closed down the rump Indie Albany and Indie Moines sites that had been sitting out there for years as “just in case” placeholders. No more. All gone. Destroyer destroyed.
Here’s the roster of featured pieces in one place, if you stumble across this post before the others. Onward!
On Being A Music Critic (1998/2010)
The Shared Experience of Hair Removal (2004)
Interview with Kim Deal (1997)
Heart of Darkness, My Old Friend (2009)
The King of Tests Strikes Out (2002)
A Lifetime of Good Eats (2009)
Internet Information Overload (1995)
The Destroyer’s work is done. For now.
J. ERIC SMITH 