It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow
(October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
will officially move to its new home at
WordPress. If you make it a point to
stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a
bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts
both old and new have already settled in and made themselves comfortable by
calling dibs on the bunks.
Since switching from Salon Blogs (a venture that, in
retrospect, I regret…because I have nothing to show for it, unless I want to
fire up archive.org’s Wayback Machine) to Blogspot nearly a decade ago, I have
to say things were pretty swell here.
Oh, occasionally there would be a minor problem to iron out but such
inconveniences were few and far between.
To be completely honest, except for the Herculean task of transferring
the content from old to new blogs, I’ve really been impressed with the look of
the new WordPress TDOY. I like the big pictures that start off each
post, something that I have developed an infinity for since I started penning
the Radio Spirits blog in May of 2012.
You’ll find that more than a few “classic” TDOY posts have spiffy new presentations in pictures; that’s what I
have been enjoying about the transfer the most.
During my stay here at Blogspot, I racked up over 3,000
posts. A large percentage of those…well,
I never was all that good at math but let’s just say a buttload of them were “meat
by-product.” I posted a lot of personal
rants, comic strips, and political cartoons back in those days…and they have
not aged at all well, so I vetoed bringing them over to WordPress. They have been released into the wilds of the
blogosphere or taken upstate to romp around on someone’s farm (unless the material
I posted had some relevance afterward in the post). I’ve also erased many of the TV-coming-to-DVD
announcements, Coming Distractions,
and notifications of movies/TV shows on sale because, again, all of that was in
the past and it’s not going to do anyone any good now (I’m betting a lot of
that stuff has expired). What’s past isn’t
always prologue, I suppose.
I’ll be leaving a few items at the old Blogspot apartment
for a while until I can figure out how I want to work them into the WordPress
environs, namely the serials I did for Serial Saturdays and two of the blog’s
signature features, Mayberry Mondays and Doris Day(s). In the case of Mayberry, I’d like to go
back and do some new screen grabs for the first season episodes seeing as I
still have Season 1 of Mayberry R.F.D. on DVD. (I want to go back and do screen caps for
some of the older serials, too.) So, if
you get an R.F.D. jones, you’ll need to use the key I’m leaving under the
mat…if you get a Google Chrome message that reads “Don’t play in that old house
or you’ll put your eye out” I don’t know what to tell you.
At the WordPress blog…well, there’ll be a change or two in
the works. For a time now, I’ve set
aside days for certain features: Overlooked
Films on Tuesdays, B-Western
Wednesdays, silent movies on Thursdays, etc. I think that with the exception of Overlooked Films the new TDOY policy will be “I’ll-write-about-this-movie-whenever-I-darn-well-please.” I’m really hoping to boost the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly
content of TDOY once I get settled in,
and if I’m not tied into a whole “Gee, I’d like to post something about this
film but it’s out-of-sync with what usually goes here” thing it’ll work out for
me so much better.
With all that out of the way, let me step inside the
confessional and own up to this: the post I had planned for Monday is going to
be postponed for a day or two because I’m still making my way through the
material; I didn’t get a doggone thing accomplished after Tuesday of last week
due to deadlines for other projects and outside irritations. I’m really going to get better at a regular
posting schedule, so if you’ll just hand me my ten Hail Marys I’ll be out of
your hair.
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