Oh shit

I forgot my anniversary. Me and RJ Battles have been together for 3 years, 3 years this past Tuesday, but I didn't stop by and write anything that day.

I didn't realize this until late last night, and while it's not a big deal, I really did mean to do something. 3 years is kind of a big deal. That's a long time.

But really, I've been neglectful of the blog for the past 6 months anyway. I haven't been too busy; I've just been less ambitious than I usually (which isn't very).

I follow 3 blogs. Even though the writing comes off like a high school newspaper student trying to sound like a People Magazine music reviewer, I do usually learn something new about a song that I'm half-way interested in. The writer, Joel, is knowledgable, but "Guru" (a word I don't care for anyway) is a stretch. Also, you can see where a lot of the info comes from- read his post about Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot" and then take a look at the song's Wiki page- seperated at birth.

For the past year or so I've been following the blog By Ken Levine. He's former writer for M*A*S*H and Cheers and he's a baseball announcer (so, as you'd probably guess, I skip any posts that show a picture of a baseball diamond). I came across his blog one day when I was on Wiki reading about Cheers. There was a story about Carla's husband Eddie and the whole backstory about why he left the show so abruptly and a link to Levine's blog where he tells everything in full detail. It's very interesting and his blog is full of posts like that. Levine also co-wrote the movie Volunteers starring Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and John Candy. Remember when people made a big deal out of the characters drinking Coke in the movie while the movie company, Tri-Star, was owned by Coke? He gives the details behind that story too. Also, he was in a mini-feud with Aaron Sorkin a couple years ago and a mini-feud with Roseanne this year.

Both The Daily Guru and By Ken Levine feature new posts every single day. It's part of The Guru's "mission", and Levine's blog was voted one of the 25 Best Blogs of 2011 by Time Magazine so that makes for an eager audience. My favorite blogger isn't as productive, or, at least, hasn't been lately.

Last year, Final Girl put up 387 posts; so far, this year there have only been 92- for July, August, and September there were a total of 6 posts. She's written every day of October, but that's because it's October. I mean, I'm not complaining (but I am)- I'm just surprised that someone who ammassed such a large following would just let it all wither. Because I'm sure that a lot of people don't even bother checking in anymore. Final Girl might be on their Favorites list but they gave up on it and have found new blogs to read.

But I'm sure she's got a lot of other projects to work on, and maybe she just wants a break from constantly writing about horror movies. Maybe she's said just about everything she wanted to say about the subject.

What I know for sure (if I can say that, if it's OK with Oprah) is that if she decides to get back into Final Girl full-time, she's such a good writer that she'll attract just as many people to the site. It'll never be a ghost-town (NPI).

I need a new banner

I keep on forgetting- it looks like it's still Eastertime here. But I wanna do something really cool and not just the usual Belly collage (not that they're not great, I just wanna do something different).

I'm going to a Jack & Jill tomorrow night and I can't wait. The last time I went out and had a few drinks was March 2. This weekend I'll tell you all about the party.

I like to go to the blog By Ken Levine. Levine used to write for M*A*S*H and Cheers. He's also a baseball announcer and he was involved with a mini-fued with Aaron Sorkin back when Studio 60 was still on the air. Two months ago Levine was involved in a smaller mini-fued with Roseanne over an article she wrote for New York magazine. I like Roseanne and Sorkin but in both cases I have to side with Levine.

So anyway, I found Levine's blog last year when I was looking up Cheers on Wiki- Wiki linked to his blog and an intersting story about why Eddie Lebeque was written off the show. I've been reading every day ever since. Plus I've read just about every post from the archives...

...Ok, I just remembered my point. Today he wrote about the quality of the movies that have come out so far this year. I haven't gone to the movies yet this year but I've been watching a lot on Comcast and Netflix and I have some opinions.

It's too much to get into tonight- in ten minutes the lights will be off and I'll be in bed- but we'll talk about this later this month. Or early next month. We'll see. Good night.