Posted by
Townhall Movie Girl on Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:39:14 PM
Movie Girl has been negligent.
I suddenly realized I have not posted anything in months, but it’s been a long three or four months, both personally and politically.
After all, Movie Girl never intended to be another Michelle Malkin, a great blogger of note who gets the news out there to us on a daily basis, and I have – as of the last few days – become a fan of Atlas Shrugs (I came a long way around from reading a post on HotAir and then finding Ace of Spades – whom I knew from having read in the past, and then…well…it gets complicated from there and loop seems to go on and on…or round and round at least LOL). Where was I?
Oh right…I always figured that if I could post at least once a week, I would be doing a good thing. If you go back through my earlier posts, you will see that the only reason this blog was started was because I went way over the maximum when it came to commenting on the newly discovered footage of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The last thing I was thinking about was another blog – I have blogs everywhere, well, nearly everywhere.
But at least this is the one place where I might be able to express my love for movies…offer regrets for the obvious decline…attempt to introduce old and new movie fans to the way things once were…to opine now and then on little things – perhaps a new discovery or recalling old favorites. Oh! Possibly offer a political opinion here and there, and then hope that people would accept it in the spirit in which it was given (oh right – as if that will happen when it comes to some). In the back of my mind, I may have also wanted to break a stereotype that when one is of a certain race, one can only have certain interests – that is something that has bothered me since I was a kid. If I fall in love with a movie or a particular actor, I am not going to start some bloody count of how many people of a race are in it, or explain to the race-conscious why I like this actor or that actress and am possibly accused of being a ‘traitor to my race.’
I love movies because they have made me happy, sad, thoughtful, and romantic; they have made me laugh and cry; they have often uplifted me, stunned me, and haunted me. Nothing more; nothing less. There you go.
Anyway, I apologize for not posting more, but as I mentioned in the beginning, it has been a long few months. Regrettably since January 21st of this year, my mantra has become ‘Is it 2012 yet?’ but that is another story for another time or perhaps not at all, and for a little while, I would like to try to escape the constant bombardment from all sides as I watch the progress (or is that regression) of the current administration. It also does not help that in my personal affairs, I have had so-called friends turn on me in a way usually reserved for the treatment of many conservatives (you should know what I mean: we want all sorts of opinions, but then the conservative offers a completely legitimate one and is slammed and pilloried and mocked; or the conservative offers a defense because they themselves have been slammed, and instead of having others understand their side at last, find that the ones that wanted an opinion, actually wanted none at all. People can be SOB’s at times).
Let me instead offer a few posts to play a little catch-up while I enjoy a cup of Boca Java Boca Sunrise (I get nothing for that plug – it is simply a coffee I love *g*). It is 82 degrees where I am…a beautiful day that guarantees that if I go outside, my allergies will assault me (thank God for Alavert and Claritin)…and I’m being smart by writing this on Word Document so that I can then copy and paste it to my blog. (I learned that lesson after writing the longest post one day directly into the Townhall dashboard, and then – when one side of my hand accidentally touched some key – watching it all vanish with no ability to retrieve it, or at least none that I could find. Sometimes this stuff is not user-friendly LOL).
So it’s catch-up time! Enjoy! And sorry for the long absence. I promise to do better.