If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you must have seen my post on my Stalker Days.
Well, recently I was going through my Google Analytics for this site and was surprised to see that I had a few incoming links from dixiechicksfans.net.
Intrigued, I desperately hunted down where exactly on that site I could possibly be linked from. Afterall, I don’t even go by the same ‘call sign’ as I did back then, and I wandered away from the Dixie Chicks online community some time ago.
After a modest amount of searching, I found this thread which is posted by someone who stumbled across my Stalker Days post and connected the dots.
Not a lot of responses to the thread, but it totally stoked me to find out that people remembered me fondly from those days.
I registered on the site, but have thus far not been approved to post.
If I’m understanding correctly, the webmaster of the site is the same who started “Emily Robison, You Rock!” in the same spirit as my own “Natalie Maines, Will You Marry Me?” so we have some history.
Anyway, this tie back to my past has encouraged me to do something I’ve considered doing before.
I’ve migrated the entire NMWYMM site over to my domain here and put it up at http://natalie.lykaon.com. I’ve made a few changes to some broken links and updated the contact information as well.
This will make sure I never lose the site and can keep it tied in with my online web presence.
Many may ask why I would want to, but despite the zany name of the site, I maintain that it was a successful foray into online fandom that I should be proud of.
Surprisingly, my wife has encouraged me to update the site with a Web 2.0 sensibility and add some features to draw in new crowds (such as the awesome idea of an Adrian Pasdar interactive voodoo doll).
Although the Chicks have fallen out of grace with country radio, and I even have my own differing opinion from Natalie these days, I’ll always miss those days when it was just me, the Internet, and my love for Natalie Maines.