Let’s Try This Again…Again

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.

In Which Basketball Betrays Me

The quirky scheduling of the NCAA tournament pushed CBS’ Sunday primetime schedule a half hour back, which means that my DVR recorded the last half of 60 Minutes and the first half of The Amazing Race in the time slot that Race is supposed to run. The good news is that I got to see my weekly dose of confused rambling, courtesy Andy Rooney’s eyebrows. The bad news is that I didn’t watch any of the Race, and there’s no recap. At least not until I watch it online tonight.

March Blandness

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.

Best Laid Plans

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.

Gobble Gobble

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.