It was one year ago today that Morning Seditionists went live.  I think it was the same day that Marc officially broke the news to us that the show was officially dead, but I’m not positive about that.  Anyhow, at the time, we only had a couple of weeks left of Morning Sedition.  I hadn’t been much for the old MS blog, mostly because I was generally trying to get my shit together and get ready for work, but in that last month and a half or so, I started going there quite a bit, trying to hold on to a piece of the show that got me out of bed and in the mood to face the day.  I thought for sure that damn petition would do some good, or at least the list and maps of the locations of the folks who signed it – over 1300 unique locations in 33 nations around the world – would make them see just how popular the show was.  Rather naive, I suppose.

I didn’t know if anybody would actually come over here, or, if they did, how long after the show was over that interest would die out, and that would be the end of that.  It’s hard to believe this place not only outlived both MS and the Mark Maron Show, but may damn well be around for the end of the the AAR era, too, though I’d prefer they get a true liberal bazillionaire (if there is such a thing) to buy them out, and hire somebody that knows how to run a radio network to manage it.
So, it turned out people actually did show up here.  In the past year, there have been over 165,000 visitors (about 450 a day, give or take), and about half of those are return visits.  That’s not exactly Yahoo numbers (good thing, because this damn web host is flaky enough as it is), but it’s not too shabby for a show that never got any promotion, was on in the middle of the night on the West Coast (if it was on at all), forced many of us to jump through all sorts of hoops just to listen to it, and required both a brain and sense of humor to appreciate.  It really was something special.

Anyhow, we made it to a year.  Let’s see if make it to two.

Take care, and no sucking up.