I very rarely remember which social media interactions wind up in following someone, or how conversations get started that lead to what would have - in the golden age of blogging - led to blog rings. (Remember those? They were neat.)
Anyway, in the past few months I came upon Library DVD Love, and it's been a Substack I get in my email box, and I give it a read.
I'm at the age where I'm mostly just *curious* about what people are saying if they're a reasonable person talking on a topic I care about, be it movies, comics or baseball. And that's because most conversation about any topic on the internet feels like it starts at an 11 and goes up from there. Or, if the writer is going for a drier approach it's so in pedantic or in the weeds, it becomes homework to get through.
Library DVD Love is that nice hit up the third baseline, just on the right side of the chalk. Neither foul nor a pop fly. A straight shot just past the baseman. Maybe I don't always know what the hell this blogger is always talking about (I do not see *that* many movies), or maybe I don't agree, but in der clerb, we all fam.
Anyhoo, I guess he's been reading this site, because he did post about my rant on the change in priorities at Alamo Drafthouse under new CEO/ shit-weasal Michael Kustermann.
Always wild to realized actual humans are reading your writing.
It sounds like Alamo is actively working to dismantle the culture and make it a place for casuals while still charging premium prices for an "Alamo experience". Which, thanks, no.
Thanks! (I write Library DVD Love.)
ReplyDeleteI thank you so much for the baseball metaphor! I'm a big baseball fan. Of the Twins, alas, a team that's won exactly one ALDS game in the last 23 years.
In Twins fandom, everybody loves Joe Mauer and Rod Carew... but we have a special place in our hearts for Nick Punto, a dude who made a habit of DIVING HEADFIRST INTO FIRST BASE when trying to beat out infield grounders. Punto's logic was basically "I go faster when I'm flying," and no amount of logic could convince him that using your feet to move faster is better.
We fans all knew this was nuts, but we loved the effort and the weirdness. It made a guy with a career OPS of .646 into a legend.
I guess I'm trying to be the Nick Punto of movie blogging.
And "I don't always know what the hell this blogger is always talking about" is pretty much how my spouse and siblings and friends think, too...