Top Blog Posts from 13 Years of Blogging Here at Ennyman's Territory

Live, from Duluth.

Just out of curiosity, I looked back to see what I could learn from reviewing thirteen years of analytics. It started as an inventory of the top blog posts of the decade.

Here's some of what I found.

First, I sure didn't have very many visitors for those first several years. In retrospect, I'm not even sure why I kept going. Nevertheless, every once in a while something would flash like lightning, strike a chord, run like the wind, take off like a rocket, blaze like a wildfire and go bananas. Or something like that.

Here are the top blog post from each year (in terms of pageviews) since we started.

2007
A Trip to the Morgue

2008
Curses, Foiled Again

2009
Dali: Madman or Geniu?

2010
Arabesque

2011
Five Minutes with Painter Marcia Baldwin

2012
Was Robert Hughes Right About Basquiat?

2013
What Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot May Have Been Fighting About in Dylan's Desolation Row

2014
A Visit with Karl Erik Andersen, Founder of ExpectingRain.com

2015
Scott Warmuth Sheds Light On Some of the Games Dylan Plays

2016
Dylan Mural Makes Monumental Impact In Minneapolis

2017
Photos and a Note from Glasgow as Dylan's Never Ending Tour Leaves Fans Warmed in the British Isles

2018
George Harrison & Friends: The 1971 Concert for Bangladesh

2019
Dylan at the Beacon--Philip Hale Shares Why Fans Keep Coming Back for More

Dylan closes out another show at the Beach. Photo courtesy Philip Hale

THANK YOU to everyone who has stopped by Ennyman's Territory over the past thirteen years. I know there are always other things to do, to watch, to read, so I generally try to make it worth your while to visit when you can. If you're reading this then it means you made it through 2019 and are not on any lists of people we'll miss. May your 2020 bring you unanticipated blessings. And yes, I'm talking to you.

End of Year Sign Off. Getting Ready to Turn the Page.

Skyline Drive just west of Twin Ponds.

Through most of November and December, Mother Nature has been fairly stingy as regards Northland snowfall. She made up for it here during the Christmas season, and despite the extra work involved, the scenery certainly becomes quite stirring.

This week's big media news has been a Sandra Bullock film called Bird Box. I've not seen it because I am wearing a blindfold, but something like 45 million people purportedly watched it the first week after it was released.

In other news, the Yellow Jackets are on the move. Belgium, Israel, Italy and elsewhere, people are making a fashion statement. Not exactly an "electrical banana" mellow yellow, but it seems to be catching on as the color of the year.

The color yellow was fairly prominent in California news this year, too. As in wildfires, also out of control and difficult to contain.

TRANSITION

Since we're knee-deep in the Northland winter season here, it seems like a good time to recall to mind a bit of that ol' Summertime. Here are a handful of jazzy, schnazzy and bluesy versions to help you dream and ring in the new year.

George & Ira Gershwin' classic rendered by Andrea Motis with The Joan Chamorro Quintet and Scott Hamilton.

Here's Charlie Parker's rendition of the same classic.

I had the privilege of seeing Doc Watson in 1972 at a Folk Festival at Ohio University. 

I doubt the Gershwin's could have half imagined Janis's emotive rendition.

If you are in any way a creative being, 
strive to go beyond yourself this coming year. 
Dreams help all of us to thrive.

HAPPY NEW YEAR