I usually wait a while before linking to new bloggers, but not Skip. I'll link to him after four posts. Why, you ask? Because sometimes local blogging kingmakers recognize a phenomenon that's going to happen with or without them and at least by getting in early we can later say, 'Skip, who we pimped when he started, said this...'

And, if we're lucky, Skip might think all that traffic he's going to be getting later on might in some small way be due to us and maybe he'll cast his gaze our way from time to time.

I'm giddy.