Back in mid-2009 I mercilessly deleted all but a couple of the blog posts I’d written between October 2008 — the month I was laid off from my art director job at Las Vegas Weekly — and the summer of 2009 — a few months after I’d moved to Seattle and begun working as art director of Seattle Met.
I’d started my blog during my unemployment, in the hopes that it might possibly help me in landing a new job during the cruelest economy the country had faced in nearly a century. The blog was my first step toward building up an online presence. (I also moved my outdated web portfolio over to Clickbook for a fresh redesign, and joined LinkedIn. I didn’t get around to Facebook until about a month after I found work, and still haven’t used my Twitter account …) There were a number of personal reasons that compelled me to take down all the old blog posts once I’d begun my new job and new life in Seattle. But I’ve always regretted totally wiping them out from my WordPress archives, rather than merely marking them as private and un-publishing them.
Well, lucky for me, the Internet never forgets. And thanks to the Wayback Machine, I’ve been able to recover all my old posts. And weirdly, I’m able to go back in time and publish them on the exact date that they were initially posted. I’m making an effort to not modify the original posts in any significant way. And I’m leaving off any reader comments that were originally published, because it seems weird to enter those in myself.
Here’s the first one I’ve retro-published, from October 17th, 2008:
(Click the image to time travel …)
