This is not my main movie blog. That’s located over on another WordPress system – blog.com – which at present seems like a nice place, but it’s a very small place, and blogs should, ideally, have some connection to the larger virtual world. They should make reference to that larger world, and be heard in it, or what’s the point to writing them at all?

As I ramble on at length about whatever it is that I’ve seen, I’ll visit blogs on some of the larger services, WordPress.com included, read, post some comments, and then write about the experience. When the blogs I visit are hosted on WordPress.com, this blog is where I’ll write about that, this blog becoming another connection between my main blog at blogs.com and the smaller community of which (I hope) it will be a part, and the larger community here.

Please do read the warning page. I do mean what I say. You don’t want to read my review of a movie or show on this blog before you see the work being reviewed. I have a microblog for that, for giving recommendations, and you should see a link to it on the sidebar for this blog. This blog is for after the fact discussion of what we’ve just seen, and in order to have such a discussion, I do have to talk about the plot. How does one talk about something without talking about it?

This is not, strictly speaking, going to be criticism in the Roger Ebert sense. This is just me having semi-serious fun with popular or semi-popular culture as a point of reference – movies, usually, but also TV shows, movies and maybe even a few stage plays. I hope you’ll enjoy it, but be forewarned – in this as in everything else, I am my own man. I write what I think, without regard for any version of political correctness, either liberal or conservative, and I do so without compromise or apology.

Whether that is to be taken as a warning or a promise depends on your point of view, but either way, it’s something for you to think about before reading any further.