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Presenting PiercingKen’s “Best 9” Instagrams For 2015

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I’d been using Instagram as a personal account for my PiercingKen.com site for a few months before I decided to have one for the Metal website and it’s really a lot of fun for me since its an immediate glimpse into what I am seeing at the very second for the most part. Now while there are less than the PM.com one, the full tally is about 761 photos. Thanks to the fun website link which you will find at the end of this narrative, I was able to learn what my “9” most popular posted images were in 2015 and I wanted to share that with you below. Here is the graphic of those nine images.

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The selections made me smile as it featured my beloved felines along with my home stomping grounds of Brooklyn and a few food related things. All of them a part of my personal world much like this blog itself. As with my PiercingMetal Instagram account, all of the items you see here are 100% original content and I’d have it no other way. If you click this image above you will be brought to our official account and I hope you choose to give it a follow and start perusing the images that have come before. Your click will help decide the ones that win this sort of thing when we get to the end of this year in another 362 days. I hope you enjoy it and know that I always appreciate the support. I’m looking to making this a productive year on PiercingKen and all its socials. Let’s do this together.

Get Your Best Nine HERE.

PS: See PiercingMetal’s “Best 9” Instagrams via THIS LINK.

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Merry Christmas 2015 My Friends

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Spooke Claus and I would like to wish all of our friends and readers a very “Merry Christmas”. Have a wonderful day with those who mean the most to you and make sure to check in with those you might not have heard from in awhile. A text and email is always appreciated around this time I am certain. Now its time for the countdown to the end of 2015 to begin. See you next time oh and before you ask, this shot took about 25 minutes to do, she did not like the hat all that much. She was given extra treats as a reward.

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Thinking Of John Lennon 35 Years Later

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Today is the 35th Anniversary of John Lennon’s death. It’s a terrible moment in NYC history that still rings loudly in the minds of those who were of an age to experience and remember it happening. I was a sophomore in High School at the time and I remembered hearing it on 1010 WINS news and that it had made my parents very upset. My young wannabe musician self at the time had trouble grasping with the fact that a fan had apparently taken this great musician from the world. What a sad, sad shame I recalled. Friends at school sported black arm bands but I did not since I was unaware that any were going to do this and thinking back on this pre-Internet point in history, I probably would have never found a black arm band at 7am in the morning. Today probably in five minutes as the answer was likely a text message or Facebook post away.

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The other day I took a museum trip with my friend Skeleton Pete and as we walked past The Dakota (where this incident had actually happened) he pointed out that Strawberry Fields was just across the street a little ways. Oddly enough I had never ever been there before and since our journey was one aimed at photography in the first place, there could be no better first stop than the “Imagine” mosaic at Strawberry Fields in Central Park.

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The small space of Strawberry Fields is listed as being a quiet zone with no musical instruments allowed but that didn’t prevent the dude with an acoustic guitar singing “Imagine” at all. He was pretty good I will admit and its probably the most respectful number to offer up in this area if you had to think of one. The sunlight was not on my side when I stopped here and thanks to a mostly overcast sky was vexing my phones camera but I snagged these and feel they did the trick perfectly. The mosaic is beautiful in its simplicity don’t you think?
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PiercingMetal Goes To NY Comic Con 2015

For the past four days, NY Comic Con had taken over the Jacob Javits Center and I was once again fortunate to be able to attend as a member of the press to put a story or three up on the PiercingMetal.com site. If you would like to see the visuals from our adventures at the Con (we went all four days mind you), just click the logo below to be transported over to that site where you can see the whole gamut. There are a healthy number of photographs to enjoy in the posts and I hope you like them (especially if you attended the Con).

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Just to remind readers of this site about how I do my NY Comic Con posts on PiercingMetal.com; historically speaking I try to post no more than fifty images per post which allows any of the featured vendors and cosplayers to find themselves easily. This ends up making me have to post more but who cares, content is king and the more the merrier I always say. I’ve disabled the comments on this post since its more of a traffic sign that will direct you over to the main posts on PiercingMetal.com; You can comment over there if you have some topical viewpoints for sure.

Official Website: http://www.nycomiccon.com

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My WordPress 8th Anniversary :)

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The other day I received a notification on my WordPress Admin Dashboard that informed me that I had reached an anniversary as one of their users of this software. Apparently it was eight years ago that I first registered for my account for this blogging tool and wow how my media world has transformed via its use. Check out the cool announcement that they send you in this screenshot that my mobile captured.

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Now before anyone gets confused about this particular anniversary, it simply means that I have been using this WordPress software for my creative stuff for eight years now. I originally began my forays into blogging by using the Blogger tools but I preferred the way WordPress flowed for me and that it could be installed right under my dotcom names. Some might remember that my PiercingMetal website reached its own 10th anniversary in April and PiercingKen.com had its 5th anniversary back in May. Since I moved on from the old static website design in 2014, I’ve been presenting just about all of my PiercingMetal stuff for you in WordPress when it comes to the new things while at the same time continuing the massive overhaul of the legacy posts. Across the board collectively it looks like this: PiercingMetal posts 3,485, PiercingKen posts 370 and last but not least PiercingMetal’s Event Listings are at 218. That adds up to 4,073 total postings using WordPress and yes I realize that I had lined out that the main website featured over 5,500 pieces a couple of years ago. The difference here comes from my still doing some rebuilding of the old stuff into the new WordPress format. Anyway, I thought this was some fun stuff to share with you since I didn’t have anything pressing to get online. Suffice it to say I just love this medium as a means to entertain you on both of my websites. Its so much more powerful than just leaving stuff to Facebook in my humble opinion.

Thanks as always for your support and as King’s X sings, “If you like what you see, then go tell somebody” (of course they sang “hear” but you know what I mean). See you next time.