If you’re reading this, I assume it’s because you’ve either arrived here by accident, or you’re one of my parents. Either way, I love you.
I’m writer, I suppose, primarily interested in considering film, television, and culture through a critical lens. I have a creative writing MFA, though I’ve admittedly not put it to much use. I have also blogged in various places, specifically at Film Misery years ago, and occasionally on Letterboxd. Now I make empty promises to my ever-patient husband that I will promise to write. Let’s hope this makes things right. But if I’m ever lucky enough to be published elsewhere, I’ll be sure to crow about it here.
Insofar as I am guided by any writerly impulses, I have but two:
- I write so I can internalize how I feel about something. Otherwise, my short attention span will toss even the most indelible experience into the trash bin.
- As Dorothy Parker may or may not have said, depending who on the internet you ask: “I hate writing, but I love having written.” Whether Dorothy said it or not, no other sentence in the English language has ever made more sense to me.
I expect that, to the extent that this blog becomes anything, it will shape itself out naturally, and in due time. But for now I just need a repository to sharpen and clarify my thoughts, mostly on subjects that are interesting to me.
I’m currently proofing my list of the best movies that came out in 2020, and I plan to publish it tomorrow. Just a warning: it’ll be long. I’ll try not to go so long in the future.
If any of this seems remotely interesting to you then I will be delighted and grateful, and I will urge you to come back. If you don’t, then it’s no problem; my feelings won’t be hurt. Because if there’s anything more important to me than validation, it’s convincing others I don’t need their validation.
