As you can see by this morning’s review of The Red Skelton Hour in Color DVD collection, Thrilling Days of Yesteryear is back in the blogging saddle. I profusely apologize for being away so long; my original plan was to start applying the paddles to TDOY last week, but this cold my sister gave me for Christmas morphed into a wicked bout of flu—the kind where you don’t feel like doing anything outside of glancing at the trashcan that sits beside Count Comfy von Chair and marveling at the amount of Kleenex you’ve gone through.
Be that as it may, I did not spend all the time counting
snot rags; no, indeedy—I was formulating plans towards once again revamping the
content here at TDOY…and sadly, this
means some of the regular features will be given their pink slips (they will,
however, receive a most generous severance package). I will not sugarcoat this: my reaction to
some of these standbys is that they’re a little too much like work. An example of this is B-Western Wednesdays; I
like to sit down with a good oater with the best of them…but when it gets to
the point where I’m looking at the calendar and saying to myself: “Geez, I need
to set aside some time to watch a programmer for the blog before Wednesday”—well,
that’s when watching movies ceases to be fun.
I want to write about movies I’ve recently glanced at for the joy of
sharing them…not because I’m conforming to a schedule.
So while B-Western Wednesdays won’t disappear
entirely from TDOY it’s been relegated to “irregular” status. I’ve been kind of slack on the television
material with regards to the blog, so I’m hoping to dust off some of my boob
tube-related DVDs and watch a classic or two on occasion. I mentioned in a previous post that Forgotten
Noir Fridays will be wrapping it up in a few months, and I hope after
that’s finished to welcome back the off-and-on Crime Does Not Pay shorts (I lucked out when the Warner Archive
collection was on sale at Amazon and I picked up the entire set for a mere bag
of shells).
The silent movies I write about on Thursdays will be
sticking around, as will be Overlooked Films on Tuesdays—Overlooked
is kind of an extension of the “Where’s
That Been” column I write for ClassicFlix, and I get a lot of pleasure out
of sitting down with a movie that may have slipped under the radar of many a
classic film fan. Finally, I want to
apologize for not getting the last TDOY
giveaway started when I promised: I will have an announcement for this on
Saturday, word of honor. (It will be a
month since the last swag contest, so everyone will get an opportunity to
participate.)
2 comments:
I know the feeling when I try to box myself in with themes and the like for Inner Toob. A whole year of daily posts about characters from literature; another year of just historical figures. And then on top of that, regularly scheduled programming like Video Sunday's, Saturday Comics, Tuesday News Day..... I think the collection of posts for my annual Who's On First blogathon and the running tally of deaths in the TV business will be enough, along with my monthly additions to the TV Crossover Hall of Fame will be enough required stuff. Otherwise it'll only be posts about the TV trivia that amuses me. (Right now I'm researching a story about the architect Frank Lloyd Reich. It won't alleviate the world's suffering, but it makes me happy.)
Woof. Long-winded, ain't I?
Anyhoo you write what makes you happy and it'll shine through. You know you've got us out here who enjoy reading it.
His Toobness issued forth a proclamation:
Anyhoo you write what makes you happy and it'll shine through. You know you've got us out here who enjoy reading it.
Thanks for encouraging my behavior, my friend.
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