Introduction

Welcome to my thoughts

As my lovely wife recently started a blog of her own, A Semi-Vegetarian's Love of Food, I decided, why not do the same myself?  I mean, in real life I am loud, opinionated on some topics, and don't often know when to shut up.  That sounds about right to me for being an Internet blogger.

Of course, every blog needs a topic.  For myself, I really like movies and good television.  I like reading too, but that's what Goodreads is for.  So, for the three people that may wander in here at some point (I have no delusions about how many readers I am likely to get since I'm not exactly Roger Ebert), this will be my musings and reviews on whatever I see that catches my eye and makes me want to say something.  Since I have a fairly large DVD collection, now being augmented by Blu-rays, there's bound to be a lot to say and I may even say something clever at some point.

Disclaimer

I have no formal training in either film or film criticism outside a handful of college classes I took almost 20 years ago

(That long?  Sheesh.  I'm only 37.)

As such, my opinions on what's going on in various movies are limited to my layman's understanding of film.  Mostly I'm really good with useless trivia (as if there's some other kind of trivia), and as I am an English teacher by profession, I may be somewhat good with words.  Bottom line:  I do not consider myself an expert, and neither should you.  This is, as they say, all for fun.