Regularly Scheduled Reprogramming
I just ran an upgrade to WordPress; the magical blogging elves that run the technical end of Movie Hawk should be working under much better conditions now. Please let me know if you experience any problems, particularly with the RSS feed.
In the meantime, go check out my Flickr photo sets. It’s the reason I haven’t been updating here as often as I’d like. Extremely amateur photography is a new hobby of mine, and so I’m sucked into that right now.
Home Sweet Home
So, remember that promise that I made that I’d be back up and blogging once the curtain finally fell on “Beauty and the Beast,” and that I’d be blogging from an exotic locale to boot? Well, add a week of almost nonstop action in the Windy City together with a forgotten cable to link my digital camera to my computer and you get a week without posts. I know you all missed me.
As I gather my thoughts on my vacation, I’ll be more than happy to post them here in some sort of recap. But that’s a few days off. Luckily for you, I have two distractions for you. The first is a review of Hot Fuzz, which I saw tonight and should be properly reviewed by midday Monday. Secondly, click on the linked phrase or the picture to your right to visit my set of Chicago pictures, posted to Flickr. I’m certainly not as great a photographer as some people on my blogroll, or even in my own family, but I think they’re decent.
Absentee Blogger
When it comes to posts bemoaning the fact that one no longer has the time or energy to devote to blogging – a past time entirely devoted to filling one’s time when they don’t have the energy to do real work – I usually side with the majority of the world who despise excuses. But since I can wrap in a nice shameless plug, I’m going to write such a post.
You may have noticed my dip in productivity in this space, and you should be warned that it will continue for another week or two. You may also remember that I was cast as the Beast in the St. Bernadette Players’ production of Beauty and the Beast. There’s your reason. The past few weeks have been devoted to nailing down my part and trying to remember the words to my songs. This week, I’ll be going straight from work to tech rehearsals and won’t have the time to pre-write any posts. Save for a review of Blades of Glory set to go live tomorrow, don’t expect to hear from me.
But worry not. I’m still here, and I still appreciate you, oh tens of readers. Once the show is over, I’ll be back to a decent posting regularity, and am happy to announce that Movie Hawk will be hitting the road and giving you posts from exotic locales. In the meantime, continue reading for the show dates.
Movie Hawk By the Numbers
In an extremely coincidental and totally unplanned set of circumstances (these phrases instead of the popular use of “ironic,” which it isn’t, much like most of the situations people use “ironic” to decribe), my review of 300 was entry number 100 here at Movie Hawk. If I really think about it, that’s a low number, considering the fact that I’m nearing eight months in this space, but that’s just a fact you’re going to have to deal with. Here’s some interesting (to me) figures of the activity of the first 100 posts at Movie Hawk.
I Have a McPheever
At right is the list of most-viewed articles today on Blogcritics.org, the “sinister cabal of writers” that I’ve been doing music and movie reviews for over the past few months in exchange for swag. I know, I know, it seems more likely that I’d be shamelessly promoting my own story on the demise of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but my article is actually the one right above it: a review of the debut album from American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee. Earlier today, it was the number one most read story. Am I ashamed that I had to write a review of “popular” music to get that kind of readership? Sure. But at least I got to start a flame war with a bunch of Taylor Hicks fans.
Back later today (or at least tomorrow morning) with regularly-scheduled programming.
Music Review: Katharine McPhee – Katharine McPhee (Blogcritics.org)
Update (1:25 p.m.) – And now it’s officially gone from the top 5. Maybe the Soul Patrol will leave me alone now.