Now We are One

I'm jumping the gun by one day because I swear there's nothing else for me to write about today. But anyway, yes, tomorrow is this blog's first birthday.

My first idea was to make Sparkle Pony kind of a faux children's web site, and you can definitely see that in the first month in the archives. In fact, the first subtitle for this blog was "Politics 'n' Media... You Know, for Kids!" I figured out pretty quickly that I'd never be able to keep that up, so after a few months, things settled down to the present form. Plus, you know, I realized that Condi's hairdo was a gift which would never, ever stop giving.

Initially, I thought of this site as a simple dumping ground for my more politically-minded Photoshopped pictures from elsewhere on the internet. I never intended it to become a daily thing, and I never ever thought it would become such a demanding (but adorable) little monkey on my back. I thought maybe a dozen of my Fark buddies would look at it every once in a while, hardly the 500-or-so who now check it every day (it's my birthday, I'm allowed to be braggy). Here are some year-1 fun facts:

• I've hosted 'n' posted just under 1,000 pictures here, so I think I can stop feeling apologetic about "not really being a photoblog."
• I'm not even remotely as queeny as you may imagine (please back me up here, John).
• The face on my "self portrait" is not mine. See what other Photoshoppers did with the same face here.
  
• Here's the horrifying truth.
  
• When not writing as PSP, I never use "OMG" or "LOL".

But anyhow, thank you for reading, and thank you for all the nice feedback over the past year. May the wind always make your mane shimmer fetchingly, and may your hoof glitter never tarnish!