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Beacon of Speech's 10 Year Anniversary

  • Writer: Fred
    Fred
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Quietly, Beacon of Speech's 10 Year Anniversary came and went this week. We are still closer to folding up tent than being a success, but that we even exist at all....




For our 10 Year Anniversary, we would like to revisit our first 10 articles, see how they held up.



"That's what I'm attempting to do in a nutshell with Beacon of Speech.....make my own path." - Yours Truly, 10 years ago



Did we make our own path? Uh, yeah, now we're alone in the woods. Do we still love the Ramones? We just wrote about them again last week. Do we sit around the house actively listening to the Ramones? Trick question. Never predicted we would be deaf, 10 years out.



There is no way we could have predicted that The Simpsons would still be on the air a decade later. Is the show still funny? Oh, heck no, the last 3 times I watched it, I actively cringed. Today our favorite cartoons include Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, and Futurama. Our Bart quote from that original article?


Bart: That's because Jesus knows one day, he gets to look his enemies in the eye and say "It was me who sent you to Hell."


Unfortunately, we talk about hell way too much at Beacon of Speech, we would not have predicted that we would be writing about AI Jesus in 2025.



We were a stringer at TopTenz for a number of years before they kept all content creation in-house. This rejected list sat in my hard drive for years before seeing the light of day in 2016. It was the first article that got found by the Google search engine at BOS.



Last Top 10 List we did? We rarely do Top 10 lists any more, but this was the very mean Top 10 Things Kelly Osbourne is Going Through. Honestly, we wouldn't have written the list if Sharon Osbourne didn't swipe $100,000,000 from the people of Birmingham, England.


Editor's Note: Dr. Demento retired earlier this year at age 85.



The core of the Beacon of Speech team still made the best indoor soccer movie of all time. Part of the reason that the blog exists, is because absolutely no one checked out our press release.



If I had a pile of money, I'd make Blasphemers 2 tomorrow.

Do I have a script? I have an outline for Blasphemers 2 and Blasphemers 3 in the basement.

Do I have a pile of money? Uh, no.


*According to Rock Critics

We took 10 music websites, assigned their Top 20 Songs of All Time to a point system, then came up with a Rock Consensus.


Apparently we were thinking like AI before AI.


Our Top 10 Songs of All Time? None of the above:

10. Got Me Wrong - Alice in Chains

9. Breathe (live) - Ministry

8. Burden in My Hand - Soundgarden

7. Valley of the Blind - Nomeansno

6. Ocean Size - Jane’s Addiction

4. Snail - Smashing Pumpkins

3. Gave Up - Nine Inch Nails

2. Duality - Slipknot

1. I’m the Man - Anthrax



Gary Johnson was a Libertarian who ran for President in 2016. Despite garnering 5 million votes, he retired from politics just a short 2 years later. The 2 Party Duopoly is stronger than ever, to my chagrin.


If Thomas Massie came to me today, in 2026, and said "please lead my campaign for the 2028 Presidential Election," I would do it in a second. I wouldn't even have to think about it.



An article I loved writing....

With no audience whatsoever.

Indoor Soccer is as unpopular as ever, but I still wrote about the MASL Championship last month.



Not even sure if Americans can use Chinese Search Engine Baidu anymore....

Editor's Note: According to AI - Yes, you can absolutely use Baidu in America, but it is heavily tailored for the Chinese language and heavily geo-restricted for account registrations.




Little did I know, * is impossible for the search engine to find, whether it's a good list or not. It's like trying to find a video by the band !!!


Editor's Note II: Yes, !!! is the band name. In order to find them, you have to search chk - chk - chk in the search engine. (Seriously)




Co-founder Ted was in a band called Waysted Space as a young man. It was a good band that played at some Cleveland area local bars. We are unaware of the existence of any proof that Waysted Space existed anywhere else on the internet.




Am I happy with the website?


Trick Question II. I am happy with the content, I am not happy with its level of success.


The only article I wish I could take back was one about Putin: Putin is Not Stalin, Putin is Bezos

Less than a year later, Putin would invade Ukraine. Now I think Putin exists in the space between Stalin and Bezos.


Do I have a plan to take BOS to the next level? I have a bad plan.


Would I like to share it?



What About Me by Moving Pictures




And now I'm standing on the corner

All the world's gone home

Nobody's changed, nobody's been saved

And I'm feeling cold and alone

I guess I'm lucky, I smile a lot

But sometimes I wish for more, than I've got.....


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