Weblog calendar for 2025
Voilà, the 2025 weblog calendar. This is not the final, but is posted here for comment.
The art is all paintings that are tagged “public domain” from the McCord-Stewart museum website.
I’ve added more historical dates.
The comments are from late 2022 to the present, as I didn’t do a calendar for 2024. Since the layout needs terse text clippings, and since some of us write more aphoristically than others, some commenters may seem disproportionately represented. This is no shade on those who feel they haven’t been quoted: if you feel you wrote something sparkling that I missed, please let me know.
Likewise, if I’ve used an excerpt you’d rather wasn’t included, please let me know.
Ian 22:52 on 2024-11-24 Permalink
Lovely art choices!
Kevin 23:29 on 2024-11-24 Permalink
This is beautiful and a reminder that I need to throw some money at you because you make being online so pleasant.
GC 09:14 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Thanks so much. Looks great. I imagine it’s a big time suck just to go through and find the comments to use. (Maybe you flag them as the year goes on, for future consideration…but that’s kind of just spreading the work out…)
Kate 10:39 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Mostly I don’t flag as I go along. It’s an interesting exercise to go back through two years of the blog, ponder what has changed and what hasn’t, what issues sparked commentary, even who used to be a prolific commenter but no longer is.
MarcG 11:03 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Looks great. I went down the rabbit hole of today’s “Prince of Wales opens Crystal Palace, 1860” note and learned a few things, thanks!
I noticed 2 little things: There’s a duplicate comment in Jan and Mar (“spent fifteen wonderful years…”), and a typo in marko’s comment (“and don’t event attempt to to come”) in Jul, but maybe you leave typos on purpose.
Kate 11:07 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
MarcG, I’d already spotted that duplicated comment and replaced the second with a different text. I’ve fixed the other one, thank you!
The most ridiculous typo I had initially was “2024” on the front cover but that’s fixed now too.
JP 11:12 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Love it too! I hope to print it on glossy paper. How do we donate/contribute? Is it via the “Become a Patron” button at the top?
Ephraim 11:19 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
OMG… I think I became the king of pithy sayings 😀
Tim S. 11:43 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Looks great! I spent some time last night digging through the archives trying to find the context for some of the comments, and indeed it’s interesting how fast or slowly our concerns change.
Kate 11:57 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
JP, there’s no charge for the calendar, and I have no way to accept one-time payments via Patreon, which is totally set up for regular micropayments. Thank you.
And thank you all. I’m leaving the current version up for now, so if anyone has any comment or correction, please don’t hesitate to tell me. I’ll declare the calendar finalized in a few days.
Jessica Noras 13:53 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
But can’t we just do an Interac etransfer? It seems to me some of us did that last year.
Kate 14:29 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
I would gratefully accept one-time contributions.
Please email me at the web address mtlweblog@gmail.com and I will send the address for Interac.
Blork 14:30 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
There’s a wee typo in Joey’s January comment (two different bracket styles used):
{on Royalmount] Who exactly is taking their luxury purchases home …
Janet 15:09 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
I love this year’s theme with the Montreal paintings. And am honoured to see that I’ve finally made it into your quotes. I also understand that the shorter my comments, the more likely I am to appear in next year’s edition…
Tee Owe 15:12 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Me too 🙂
Kate 15:49 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
2026 calendar quote: “Me too – Tee Owe, 2024-11-25”
Thanks, Blork.
walkerp 21:25 on 2024-11-25 Permalink
Really lovely! Thanks for this. I try not to read ahead so each month is a bit of a surprise, but it’s tough. You are quite smart to incorporate our quotes. Excellent way to build engagement! 🙂