A Pie-Eyed Year

Well, folks, I just noticed that the Pie-Eyed Picayune has been at it for just about a full year now, and what a year it's been. We've gone from the meanderings of a solo PiedPiper, to a dynamic duo with the addition of Ilya, to the panoply of contributors we have today: Xtra, Anti-Everything, Mandingo and the Archduke. Sure, we've had our ups and downs, as well as the requisite coma followed by an identity crisis and a search for ourselves through the wilderness of bloggerdom. But, here we are, one year later, fighting the good fight and all that. Thanks for playing along, PePpers. With that, some highlights:

• The Beginning
• Katherine Kersten and Terri Schiavo...kinda like Batman and Robin
• Ilya - The Original Man in Pink
• An Ode to Teflon Tim
• Remember when the government shut down? That was awesome...
• Ilya's trademark: President Bush's Siren Song
• Xtra joins the Krewe
• The other great debate: Townies vs. Hipsters
• Rethinking Pat Robertson
• Hurricane Katrina...jumped the shark back in September
• Mandingo = Incomprehensible
• The first State of the Blog address
• PiedPiper's 5-point plan for an improved Twin Cities
• Oh no...NO...it's Hurricane Bearded Matriarch
• It's too bad about Tom Delay...no, really, I feel bad...seriously
• Xtra + Bill Bennett x Race - Freakonomics = Eh.
• Bill O'Reilly clubs baby seals
• Can you believe Harriet Miers was almost a Supreme Court justice...what a country!
• Pie-Eyed Picayune: Always patting ourselves on the back
• I'd love to have a piece of Roy's Rock
• Archduke calls out local heartthrob Mason Jennings
• The second State of the Blog address
• Why the right is wrong...
• 2,000 soldiers dead in Iraq...I guess those flowers and candies got lost in the mail
• Scootstock and CNN's VonWolfenblitzer as cyborg
• Archduke gives his picks for Park and Rec Board, as well as Board of Estimate and Taxation and Library Board
• Eliot Spitzer as Pied's hero
• Tim Pawlenty's chickenscratch
• Pie-Eyed Poetry and the "The Lament of Randy and Peter"
• Anti-Everything: It's all about the gays
• PeP reached 10,000 hits, and somehow, somewhere, a dolphin cried
• Anti-Everything: More gays
• Election 2006: Genesis 1:1
• Torture and mercy...what are we not getting?
• And the gay ninjas, my God man, the gay ninjas
• Anti-Everything practically broke the biggest story of Election 2006: Vampire runs for Minnesota governor
• The doldrums begin with Mandingo's word cloud
• Was Kanye right?
• The return of Hurricane Bearded Matriarch, as if once wasn't enough
• March was a really thin month as far as posts go
• On the brink of blog termination...
• ...and the ressurection
• CHEEBAdanza...and the cancellation of CHEEBAdanza

There you go, folks: the highlights and the lowlights of the first year of the PeP. Thanks for the memories!