Friends and Neighbors
With the advent of the new site comes the need to update the woefully ancient blogroll. Ancient as in it was last updated months ago and this is the Internet, so it was obsolete after two days anyway. Added to the blogroll are I’ve Made a Huge Tiny Mistake, a local sports and entertainment blog (by a fellow Hawk); Reviewing Whatever, an amalgamation of thoughts on everything the blogger (also a fellow Hawk) touches; A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago, one of the strangest and most wonderful group of pop culture bloggers around; and The Movie Blog, which is like Ain’t It Cool News without the flame wars.
Gone from the list is Shallow•Center, who has regrettably, for the time being, disappeared from the blogosphere. If Tom makes a comeback, I’ll be the first to write a glowing review of his stuff and welcome him home.
If you read the site and are a blogger, drop me a line at jeff@moviehawk.net to get added.
Hello City
Welcome, one and all, to MovieHawk. I’m your host, Jeff Martin. For those of you who don’t know me…wow, thanks for coming to the site. I’ve written on two other services before now, so if you’ve kept with me all that time and are one of the tens of people influenced by my opinion, well shucks, thanks so much.
MovieHawk is my place to polish my writing skills and share opinions, primarily on movies but also on television, sports, and whatever else I encounter in my life and times. If you want to know more, let your eyes glance to the top of the page and click on the “About” link.
There are a few subtle differences between this and my former site, namely that the movie rankings don’t have a place in the sidebar. Instead, you will see a rotation of the three most recent movies I’ve seen. It gets too difficult to arbitrarily decide whether one three-and-a-half-star movie was better than another, totally different film that got the same rating. If you still want to see my opinion on that, you can always click “Movies 2006 (or subsequent year)” at the top of the page. The site is up and running, so please feel free to poke around while I decide what to post next.
A great man one said that news is a conversation and so, too, should this site be. Please comment early and often. I want to know what you have to say; otherwise, I’m just talking to a firewall.