Striking Midnight: Executed Today’s 12th Annual Report
October 31st, 2019 Headsman
Today’s* post makes it an even dozen years since Executed Today was born to werewolves way back on Halloween 2007.
That also makes this very post the 12th installment of the “annual reports” series, one which has trended increasingly pro forma here in the site’s silver age.
I’m afraid our 2019 edition will be no exception.
For an anticipated 3-to-5-year project, every year — hell, every day — is terra incognita. Certainly carrying the blog across the entire 2010s was never an expectation; merely reaching the 2010s would have sufficed to my imagination back when this all started. And while the plan at this point of course includes closing out the decade, the site’s senescence, already well underway, will not likely permit a very deep expedition into the 2020s.
I’m leaving myself some wiggle room since there’s no fixed date but the site has already accomplished what I dreamt for it tenfold and there are days when it feels not merely laborious but self-indulgent.
Executed Today is all about orchestrated partings but it’ll be a hard and reluctant separation for this writer whenever the time comes: still, that time is surely coming.
Call it triskaidekaphobia as we mount the scaffold for an unimaginable 13th year — in what condition to descend, no headsman can foresee.
* Yes, this post was backdated to the anniversary.
On this day..
- Triskaidekaphobia: Executed Today's 13th Annual Report - 2020
- 1904: Wang Weiqin, by lingchi - 2020
- 1929: Ilm Deen, blasphemy avenger - 2019
- Eleventh Hour: Executed Today's (cursory) 11th annual report - 2018
- 1926: Anteo Zamboni, Mussolini near-assassin, lynched - 2018
- Decimated: Executed Today's Tenth Annual Report - 2017
- 1860: Johannes Nathan, the last ordinary execution in the Netherlands - 2017
- 1862: Thomas Sanders, rapist - 2016
- Deathed Up to the Nines: Executed Today's Ninth Annual Report - 2016
- The Eight Pains: Executed Today's Eighth annual report - 2015
- 1460: Tiburzio di Maso, Roman brigand - 2015
- Seven-Out: Executed Today's Seventh Annual Report - 2014
- 1814: Private John McMillan, deserter - 2014
- Six Years Under: Executed Today's Sixth Annual Report - 2013
- 1698: The last Streltsy executed in October - 2013
- Executed Today's Fifth Annual Report: Hang Five - 2012
- 1907: Evstolia Ragozinnikova - 2012
- Executed Today's Fourth Annual Report: Wrung, Wan and Quartered - 2011
- 1893: Bertha Zillmann, completely prostrate - 2011
- Executed Today's Third Annual Report: Third Time Lucky - 2010
- 1492: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, Nearly Headless Nick - 2010
- 1938: The terrified John Deering - 2009
- Executed Today's Second Annual Report: Once Bitten, Twice Die - 2009
- Executed Today's First Annual Report: One Year of Dying Languorously - 2008
- 1793: The Girondists - 2008
- 1589: Peter Stubbe, Sybil Stubbe and Katharina Trump - 2007
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Bitchin’, headsman!