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January 23, 2006

Blog Happenings

Wednesday will be the one year anniversary of this blog. According to PBS, most babies, by the age of one, can sit without support, stand under their own power, toddle forward, roll a ball, pick things up, express recognizable emotions, cry loudly, play peekaboo, smile spontaneously, laugh aloud, enjoy books with pictures, distinguish between animate and inanimate objects, and say a couple words aloud.

This blog can do none of those things.

So on that level, I'm not doing so hot. However, very few children are purchased by LA Weekly before they turn two. Which brings me to my next point: I've been purchased by the LA Weekly. We've been working on this for approximately forever, but it only emerged from double super secret background status today, when they rolled out their new design that lists me under the "blogs" category.

In terms of what that means for this site, not a whole lot. I'll soon be moving to ezraklein.com (and soon after that be undergoing a spiffy redesign), but for all you virtual elves keeping my hit counter fat and happy, little will change save the quality, which should go up a bit. As Tapped shows, I tend to be less halfassed when I'm getting paid. I'll also be writing a monthly column for the print edition, and probably focusing a bit more on California.

In more blogging news, Josh Marshall has asked me to head up a new, temporary blog on the Medicare Part D Disaster. That'll be over at TPM Cafe. Tomorrow will also see me playing Wonkette for a day, as I take over the beltway-gossip site in some sort of tribute to Ana Marie Cox. Since I'm known far and wide for not being an excruciatingly dull health policy wonk, you can see what an inspired choice they've made. Also, for those playing the home game, that'll leave me with four blogs for a day, one more than cubicle mate Matt. So take that: I truly am king of the internets.

As for the requisite sappyness, I've run through three hankies while writing this post, and I just...loveyouallsomuch. This site has been much more than I could've possibly hoped, and blogging has propelled me much farther than I could've ever imagined. At 8:30 tonight, I'll be on Air America's Majority Report doing pre-State of the Union commentary. I'll be phoning in from the offices of The American Prospect, where I work. And I owe it all to this blog, and everyone who reads it.

Thanks.

Also: Special thanks to my awesome weekend bloggers, who make it possible for me to have a social life without feeling guilty about it. Those folks rock, and they keep me from getting burnt out.

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Comments

Congrats and good luck. I'll keep reading -and occasionally clicking thru your ads ;)

Posted by: TJ | Jan 23, 2006 7:49:29 PM

Gratz Ezra! When will you have time to sleep?

Posted by: fiat lux | Jan 23, 2006 7:55:22 PM

Sleep is for the weak.

Posted by: Ezra | Jan 23, 2006 8:02:58 PM

Congratulations, Ezra. You have earned it, your way. And the previous thread might be the better place, but your Tapped piece on HSA's was superb. I would have commented over there, but the vast milling crowd of commenters intimidated me.

Posted by: bob mcmanus | Jan 23, 2006 8:55:14 PM

I've been purchased by the LA Weekly.

Don't get me wrong: I do luv California (although Portland Oregon is truly awesome too), although my lens on CA starts at the SF Bay Area and runs north (or maybe... Monterrey and north). But... LA !$?

So my question is: Where is the there there? In DC, or LA? Is Ezra contemplating a electoral future that requires some presence in CA to be eligible as a candidate (a second coming of Barrack Obama)?

Or, is the career careening toward the used-to-be-superb (but now, not so much) LA Times?

Posted by: JimPortandOR | Jan 23, 2006 9:05:46 PM

Oh, and mucho congratulations too, Ezra. For all the good things.

Posted by: JimPortandOR | Jan 23, 2006 9:08:19 PM

Congrats Ezra!!!

Posted by: Lauren | Jan 23, 2006 9:12:38 PM

Congratulations Ezra. Man that's awesome.

Posted by: Jedmunds | Jan 23, 2006 9:13:58 PM

Nicely done on creating a mini media empire! LA Weekly made a smart move picking up you and Digby, that's for sure...

Posted by: Brad Plumer | Jan 23, 2006 9:29:50 PM

Awesome, nice job. Good luck!

Posted by: Matt F | Jan 24, 2006 1:09:06 AM

Good work! Keep it up, please.

And give us a shout the next time you're back in LA, we'll arrange another blogger barbecue.

Posted by: SteveAudio | Jan 24, 2006 1:47:37 AM

Let me add my feelings of good will and whatnot. Yay you!

Posted by: Stephen | Jan 24, 2006 2:36:05 AM

Congrats, Ezra: you've become a go-to guy very very quickly, through your own hard work.

Posted by: ahem | Jan 24, 2006 4:16:34 AM

I've been reading for about a month and a half, since I figured out that you didn't appear at Tapped out of nowhere. This is a daily must-read for me now, one of a handful.

Congratulations, and regardless of where you're posting, I'll be there.

Posted by: Jon Parker | Jan 24, 2006 7:31:12 AM

Congrats Ezra, and thank you for keeping your eye on important topics such as the Medicare Part D debacle. I look forward to following you to your new SoCal home.

Posted by: Public Health Press | Jan 24, 2006 9:54:43 AM

Wow, that little boy who posted his open shirt picture at Pandagon sure is growing up!

Congrats, Ezra, well deserved and well done.

Posted by: maurinsky | Jan 24, 2006 10:41:01 AM

Congrats!

Posted by: Roxanne | Jan 24, 2006 11:30:09 AM

How you have time to do all that, and still turn out quality stuff, is completely beyond me.

Posted by: Adrock | Jan 24, 2006 11:54:05 AM

Congrats, as always. Why, I remember when you were a wee lad writing at Not Geniuses -- overanalyzing the 41st or 42nd Democratic Debates -- because we were all doing it.

Posted by: Chris R | Jan 24, 2006 1:02:29 PM

Dude! Congrats! Send cash now, young punk!

Posted by: Matthew Holt | Jan 24, 2006 2:57:23 PM

Dude! Congrats! Send cash now, young punk!

Posted by: Matthew Holt | Jan 24, 2006 2:58:04 PM

Wow! That is terrific!

I'm digging your tour of duty at Wonkette. Maybe your new tag at the top of your page should say "Putting the 'wonk' in Wonkette," but that sounds awfully dirty.

Posted by: Pepper | Jan 24, 2006 4:46:43 PM

Congrats. Keep up the good work.

Posted by: Dave Justus | Jan 24, 2006 5:12:58 PM

Congrats! and probably focusing a bit more on California And that's good to hear. :)

Posted by: Angie | Jan 24, 2006 5:29:03 PM

Congratulations! Hope they gave you more than that Technorati doohickey said your blog was worth.

Posted by: Tom Hilton | Jan 24, 2006 5:44:22 PM

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