Up and Running

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.

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Maintenance Update

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.

Listen Up

I’m still recovering from Kevin Smith’s marathon Q&A on Thursday night (he spoke for 7 hours, meaning that the event ended at 2 a.m. and we got home from Red Bank at 4), and so I don’t have much to write about, but for your information, I’ve rejoined the Last.fm community and you can now see what songs I’ve most recently listened to and click through to my profile to see my top artists.

Note: Any grammatical errors in the song labeling is Last.fm’s fault, not mine.

Meet and Greet

It seems that the first position in my “people I’d like to meet” section of my MySpace page is charmed. The first resident of that spot was Steve Burns; I met him twice this summer. His replacement? Matt Nathanson, who you’ve already read about me meeting (evidence at right). Now I need a third honoree. Who should I put in that place, improving my chances of an encounter? Keira Knightley could move up one spot, but I’m afraid I’d pass out if I actually met her. Also worth noting: all jokes about meeting a dateable girl will result in your immediate banishment from the Internet. I talked to Al Gore about it, and he’s on board. So beware.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

It’s been a while since I updated my blogroll, largely because I haven’t been looking for new and interesting sites lately. Today, one fell into my lap – or, more appropriately, my IM client. Please go check out The Grammar Vandal, a blog in which my sister’s college roommate tries to save the world from itself by stealthily (some times more than other) correcting its grammar. Kate is officially my hero.

Also worth checking out is O.K. Critic, written by Movie Hawk reader Heather, occasionally/formerly of The Typewriter and more often of her pregnancy/baby blog. I think it’s Heather’s goal to one day have as many active blog accounts as ESPN has networks.

Back later today with a review.