the hotrod 515th episode spectacular

Today marks the second anniversary of our little corner of the Voxosphere, and it's been another busy year for hotrod.vox.com.  Aside from finally growing up and adding capital letters to our arsenal of prose, we've welcomed some new faces and we've seen some others gradually drift away.  Our sisters joined us for a bit, blowing in on a whirlwind of comments and departing almost as abruptly.  An old friend from high school randomly found us - little old us - out of all the many Vox pages from which to choose.  That may have a little something to do with the good people at Six Apart finally recognizing the sharp social commentary our organization offers on a semi-regular basis (i.e. when we feel like blogging).  Sharp social commentary like:

• Our thoughts about the long-awaited big screen treatment of our life story.
• Our feud with Guitar Hero (and our subsequent reconciliation).
• Our report on our summer vacation.
• Our unwavering dedication to the rock and roll.
• Our initial foray into the live-blog paradigm.
• Our pearls of wisdom in our "Rules for Life" series.
  
• Our continuing exploration of the questions that haunt men's souls.
• And our faithful documentation of occasions when DC area Voxers get together....
• ....such as at the newly revitalized Karaoke to the Death.

But it hasn't been all serious reporting for the past year.  There's been some time for fun and games.  There were a whole bunch of challenges from various members of the 'hood, and we won them all.  The only challenge we didn't win was our own.  (And - frankly - we failed miserably.)  But despite our sterling record, we think we will have to put the challenges behind us for the coming year.  Our latest ended badly with a breach of contract on the part of the loser after our victory.  The whole episode has soured us on the enterprise; it's just not the same any more.  Consider this the announcement of our retirement, undefeated, immediately upon the conclusion of our "yoga is easy challenge" at the end of this calendar year.

Even without the occasional challenge, though, we are looking forward to year three of hotrod.vox.com.  We don't have children of our own, but we have nieces and (now plural) nephews.  That third year is when they really start to become fun.  No more poopy pants here!  We're big kids now!!