a thousand words

A couple of days ago, we glanced over to the left there and noticed that we're on pace for 2009 to be our most prolific year as a blogger.  That surprised the hell out of us.  It had seemed to us that the month that just ended was a microcosm of our output this year as a whole.  But about the same time we decided we were being a little too self-critical, we remembered that late January and early February saw a flurry of "posts" from Tampa which inflate the overall number.  All told, we have literally phoned in nearly forty posts so far this year, and all but a handful of them are just a photo with no explanation.  There's no denying it - 2009 has been the laziest year in the short history of hotrod.vox.com.

So in an effort to rectify this, for the entire month of November we're going to focus on quality over quantity.  We won't be posting any photos or videos.  We're going to rely solely on our words.  (Frankly, this strikes us as a more appropriate way of commemorating National Blog Posting Month than posting daily, for what it's worth.)  And no, we don't have any idea of how this is going to play out.  We hope that we might find something to say in the next four weeks (besides this introductory post) that doesn't require a visual crutch.  Lord knows, we've still got stories to tell.  Maybe we'll even get to the tale of how we got our nickname....