I’m sure by now you’re as tired as I am of all these gaps in writing time, and there’s not much I can say but “sorry.” Honestly, this time, a total lack of interesting movies to see or worthwhile reviews to write has kept me away for more than a month. Finally, though, there’s a stockpile of films in theaters that I’m moderately interested in seeing. That includes two this past weekend: Run, Fatboy, Run and 21. You’ll get reviews of those in the next couple days. Stay tuned.

It’s good to be back.

Okay, so I failed at the stated objective of NaBloPoMo. But just because I couldn’t post thirty times in thirty days doesn’t mean the project wasn’t a success. I matched my monthly all-time high in posts with 24 and found some good reasons to keep blogging. Many thanks to those who continue to read.

You’ll have to forgive me if, in my tryptophan-induced coma, I’m not up for posting anything of great value today.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanskgiving.

It was four years ago today that, “jealous” of people in a theatre group I was part of who posted humorous highlights of rehearsal, I signed up for LiveJournal. Since then, I have bounced from TypePad to Blogger, from semi-private to semi-popular, from the now-defunct minutiae31.com back to LiveJournal and now here, hopefully to stay. Many thanks to all those who have read my site in any of its incarnations and who continue to do so today.

As I continue to consider what new blogs to add to my blogroll, I bid a fond adieu to a few former favorites; namely, “It Moves Me!” Bill is a good friend of mine, and he’s a hell of a writer, but he hasn’t posted in more than a year. If Avington one day goes back to writing online, I’ll be one of the first to welcome him back with open arms.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blogroll, and while I consider what to remove, I offer up one new addition: Tack Sharp, the new blog from uber-photographer and Movie Hawk sibling Kelly Anne. As TS grows, it will no doubt be a useful photography resource, something that will be extremely useful as I try to become a better casual photographer. Not to mention a good place to see some neat photos.

Before I start doing any serious writing in NaBloPoMo, I want to take a moment to recognize a significant milestone in my life. Now, too often these days, anniversaries are taken lightly - “Hey, we’ve been dating for two weeks!” or “Congrats, Lindsay! You haven’t been in rehab for a month!” I’ll be doing the same thing later this month when I celebrate my blog birthday. But the truly relevant anniversaries need special attention.

On November 1, 1997, I was a sophomore at a Catholic high school. I had the day, a holy day of obligation, off from school. Some guys I had met in school decided to spend the day at the mall. So that afternoon, five or six of us piled into a 1982 Toyota Corolla and headed for Granite Run Mall, were we enjoyed a lunch of Friendly’s and a trip around the mall. Therein started a bond between three of the participants that day - myself, Pat, and Andy - that has lasted to this day. Ten years of hanging out with the same crew. Friends have been added and subtracted from the group, but the three of us have always been a part of it.

Happy ten years, fellas. Here’s to many more.

So…two months of complete and utter blog inertia. Nine posts in 61 days. That’s about a post a week. And it’s inexcusable. To my tens of readers: sorry.

The conventional action to take when such a poor display of blog attentiveness overtakes a writer is to throw in the towel; nobody reads the site anymore, you tell yourself, so it’s time to shut the virtual doors. But I enjoy this far too much to give up. Thank goodness for NaBloPoMo.

What’s the strangely capitalized and barely pronounceable word, you ask? Well, it’s an alternative to NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. This is National Blog Posting Month. While more motivated writers are tackling 50,000 words in November, I’ll be writing a blog post every day this month. Hopefully this will bring back my blogging mojo, just in time for winter film season.

After an unacceptably long downtime, Movie Hawk is officially back up and running. I’ll have a real post each of the next two days, but Movie Hawk Tech Support isn’t confident the downtime won’t be repeated in another two months or so. Enjoy it while you can.

Miss me?

I’m going to hold off on writing anything for a few days while my tech support works on renewing my lease and getting away from our current domain host. Back next week.