8 years ago today, BeingCharlieKaufman.com hit the internet, and the world HASN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE.

8 frickin' years.

I was supposed to be bored of this after three or four months.

In 8 years we've (by which I mean I've) received tons of cool emails from tons of cool people (and multitudes of mediocre emails from below-average people), emails from crazy people, made friends with some of the folks at Sony and other groups or individuals connected in some way to the life and/or work of Charlie K (and I'll bet he's SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT), been hacked (actually, my web host was hacked -- BCK became a bit of collateral damage -- we're at a different host these days), featured in magaziens and newspapers here and there, and none of it would be possible without you guys. I LOVES YOU GUYS. Except you, with the red hair and the wonky eye.

The down side of launching a site near the end of December: everybody's off doing end-of-year things, so hardly anyone notices when BCK's anniversary rolls around. (Actually, we didn't hit search engines until about February '02. Maybe that's our anniversary?)

But I'll stick a short thank-you here anyway, to anyone and everyone who's ever contributed to the site, or who's visited and found some use for the stuff they've discovered here. On the About the Site page, if you're bored, you'll find a more extensive list of thank-yous.