The apologetic, early-year post about lack of updates and resolve to course correct is a tired trope in the blog sphere these days, but here I am writing one. Over the past several months, I’ve seen movies and come home afraid to write about them. The empty screen was a scary thing; a bottomless chasm that I felt I needed to fill with as many words as possible. I instead posted shorter, 140-character reviews to my Twitter and Facebook pages. Surely, somewhere between six-paragraph screeds and tightly-packaged tweets, there lies a middle ground.
So, we’re going to try something new here: get back to updating with some level of frequency, but relish in brevity. You’ll get thoughtful reviews of the pop culture that I consume (not always guaranteed to be new releases; it’s too expensive to go to the multiplex anymore), just shorter. I’ll also be trying to expand the variety of my posts as I keep up with some of my New Year’s goals: to take a photo per week and read a book per month. Hopefully, that will keep me active enough to post.