My Favorite Posts from the First Ten Years of IMAO

Harvey has been doing retrospectives of posts from the previous ten years, but I thought I’d do my own shot at what I consider some of my favorite IMAO posts ever. I’ll probably miss a bunch of good ones, but there’s been a lot of posts over ten years so I’ve probably forgotten a bunch of really funny ones.

The In My Worlds were popular posts (which I still write every now and then), and I even have a book collecting a lot of them. Picking just one to link (you can put your favorites in the comments), I always liked this one.

Here’s hate mail I wrote Michael Moore. I always loved this one, especially the line, “Aye, what a sound beating I received; quite proportionate to my size.”

Know Thy Enemy is another popular group of posts which maybe I’ll do more of. Here’s one on brush fires, notable because it was the first IMAO post SarahK read.

Here’s my guide to the Homeland Security Alert Levels. I think someone actually made some videos illustrating some of these.

Here’s where I exposed the crimes of Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds. He still puts up links to reviews of powerful blenders to taunt me.

The announcement of the t-shirt babe winner.

For a while I spared with some troll from England I called “The Limey.” Here’s my favorite post on that because it contains the fable of Fascist McFascist.

Since SarahK won the contest to be my t-shirt babe, she was at the time the only other IMAO employee. So we had an IMAO employee team-building trip to the Grand Canyon (our first date). Here’s part of my write up of it.

Here’s me finding a possible forged document about Bush being AWOL.

My illustrated endorsement of Bush in 2004.

Here’s my announcement of being engaged to SarahK (includes a quote from my father). Make sure to also read SarahK’s much better write-up which includes pictures.

Back before I really got started on PJ Media, I wrote my own attempt at editorials on IMAO (with a nice picture of me showing how serious and thoughtful I am). Here’s one on me judging how the Iraq war was going.

When things were looking bad for the Republicans in 2006, I decided to add some liberal commentary from Scary Evil Monkey. There’s even a video from him taunting us after the results of that election.

Here’s my plans for a space laser and an illustration of what a dinosaur with rocket launchers would look like.

I wish I had more time for drawing comics, as I really liked those. Here’s one about SarahK getting her gun taken by a police officer (based on a true story).

I was a big supporter of Fred Thompson in 2008. It started with this post of facts, and I ended up doing one a day until he left the race.

The famous 3 AM photoshop. My idea, though Cadet Happy pulled it off so nicely.

The Dick Cheney assassination squad.

The family that blogging made.

And I know I’m forgetting a ton of great posts, but it’s a lot of archives to go through. If you can think of some big ones I missed, put it in the comments (with links if you can find them).

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6 Comments

  1. I seem to recall a post where you pointed out that your toe itched. You later let us know that you scratched it. I’m not sure why I remembered that but it amused me at the time.

    Have you revived any more hate mail?

  2. I have fond memories of an In My World in which W was wearing Curious George pajamas and of another one in which he was enjoying “pudding cup time”. Sometimes those little things, embedded in the stories like little nuggets of gold, made a lot of difference.

  3. In “The announcement of the t-shirt babe winner” you wrote, “Well, this came down to the wire. As I said before, the third place winner is only two points behind first place.”

    Question: Does that mean that if the votes had shifted by two or three points you could have married “Willow of the Whomping Willow” or “Serenity of Serenity’s Journal” instead?

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  5. I always loved your “Frank J reads the Bible.”

    I also couldn’t get enough of your rolling novella, I believe it was titled “Bit by Bit.”

    and finally there was my personal favorite “In My World” where John Bolton went to the UN.

    [The Bit by Bit novella — which eventually became Superego — I’ve rewritten from scratch into a full novel and hope to get published when my wife is done editing it. -Ed.]

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