And Now For Something Old

So the World Cup has come and gone, and it is once again time for a little housekeeping. First of all I apologize in advance for any misplaced commas, misspellings and other forms of tpyos. My sister, who is my wonderful (and wonderfully free) editor, is on vacation. You can read about her road trip across the country over at daphneseesamerica.blogspot.com. It’s kind of like my blog, only she goes places and sees things, and I sit on my couch and watch TV.

Which brings me to my next point; what will occupy the 4 hours in my day that I spent watching soccer last month? I’d have a tough time selling the LR on the fact that I should just sit on my ass at home all day and watch movies on Netflix streaming. On the other hand, if I tell the LR that I’m starting a feature on my blog called “Reviews of Movies You’ve Already Seen,” well that’s a different kettle of fish entirely. (And now for an extended kettle of fish bird walk because the animal idiom store was having a two for one sale. I find eating fish in the middle of the desert fairly unsettling. There’s no freaking water anywhere, and while I know that when you go to a restaurant and order fish, it’s never ever ever actually from the water in the area, it still somehow seems easier to swallow than when the closest body of water with living things in it is tens of hours away. Although in San Diego, which obviously is right on the water, I found it no less unsettling that they advertised Maine lobster on the menu. You are on the freaking Pacific Ocean, I didn’t come to San Diego for a little taste of Maine. Yes these are in fact the things I think about).

So starting somewhere between immediately and eventually I will be debuting my new blog series. The movies I will pick will be exclusively from Netflix streaming, and other than that will basically have nothing in common. Expect wild veering around, from summer blockbuster, to documentary to tiny indie film and back again. Don’t expect the movies to necessarily have anything to do with Mexico, drugs, gangs, or the desert. Some might, but it will be purely coincidental. I get enough border life as it is, I don’t need to go on a drug mule’s holiday (which would be like a busman’s holiday if the busman was driving drugs illegally into the US from Mexico). It’s possible I will even develop some consistent formula like, having neat little questions in bold face type, or a listy type thing complete with bullet points. Probably though I’ll just drone on and on in paragraph form.

Also, don’t expect me to have any particular expertise on the subject. I like movies, and I like TV, and I know a lot about both, but that’s about as far as it goes. My only credential is that, almost ten years ago when I was a Senior in High School I made a list of movies I wanted to watch and then watched them with friends. Then I went to college, wanted to sound pretentious and told people that I had run a film series. The real point of the list though was to force myself to sit down and watch Gone With the Wind. I still haven’t seen Gone With the Wind. At this point there is only one way on God’s green earth that anybody will make me watch that movie and it involves a certain somebody eating a pizza and another certain somebody reading all 7 Harry Potter novels. I live a complicated existence.

To recap--There is no more World Cup. I’m bored. I’m going to watch movies. I’m going to write about those movies to disguise the fact that I will in fact be doing nothing. One of those movies will not be Gone With the Wind. This will all start sometime.