My poor Blogger blog… How I neglect you so! Even though you
continue to earn me (a meager amount of) money because of past stellar posts on
the 1990s hit Freshman Fall and the
short-lived Jerry Springer-hosted Baggage.
Like seriously – I can’t believe how often people are looking for information
on those two subjects! I also really like it when someone comments on a post five
years after the fact.
It’s also odd for me to read some posts that are now 5+
years old. Yikes, they ain’t great, as Shakespeare once said to Roger Bacon.
However, they serve as a good reminder of how I’ve progressed, so I’m
begrudgingly leaving them up. Plus, I need to keep getting’ them (meager)
checks based on search engine hits.
One other housekeeping item – I’m on a movie review podcast
with some random strangers I know from the Internet. If you’d like to listen,
you can go here. I
mostly serve as comic relief, and as a result, I say incredibly horrible things
sometimes! Good times! The latest movie review I participated in was The Santa Clause, so it’s very
time-sensitive. Before that, I thought the Snowpiercer
and Krull shows were also really
solid.
I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, so I won’t resolve
to update you more. However, since I do have a bit of a light schedule the next
few days, the least I can do is to provide some content in these hot news days
of late December and early January. Such as…
Random movie review – I saw Boogie Nights today. Yeah, it IS weird that I haven’t seen it
before! I felt like I’ve seen it before, given how many references Bill Simmons
makes to it. But with its weird mixture of humor, drama and smut, I can see why
it is so widely celebrated. If you’re in the mood for a dramatized (maybe!) flick
about the porn industry and mommy issues, with a dash of humor, it’s definitely
worth checking out. (And also, there is an awesome real-life crime article it
borrows from, and that article is worth reading – “The Devil and John
Holmes.”)
The Boogie Nights “Dirk
Diggler” image is a common screen grab floating around the Internet. The top
image comes from a public
domain gallery.
