The Return of the Return

I have been absent from this site for a couple of months. I went from gung-ho about starting up a membership program to being scarcely able to string a few words together. I guess you could call it a 2020 fatigue, a depression brought on by, among other stresses of 2020, my cousin’s suicide. When I woke up on November 6th, I thought the worst of the day was the knowledge that I’d failed to watch and write a piece on V for Vendetta; then I got the news of John’s death.

 

I’ve been here before, to this place of abrupt hiatus and (triumphant?) homecoming. It’s not a cycle I enjoy.

I deeply regret my inability to follow through on the promises I made when I set up the membership program, although thankfully almost, no one actually signed up. Probably because my site wasn’t producing any content. Go figure. I will most likely be discontinuing the membership option for the time being. If anyone who paid into the program would like a refund, that will be arranged.

So  I’m back. I hope this is the last time I have to type those words. The passing of 2020 into 2021 has invigorated me to start the slow, steady process of healing. I feel like the writing I should have produced throughout November and December is ready to spill forth. So here’s some of what I’m planning, in addition to many works in progress previously mentioned that have in large part turned out to be more demanding than expected.

Expect a post very soon on my 2020 film of the year and a general wrap-up of the year in film (perhaps the strangest year in cinema history). Expect posts possibly even sooner on Tremors, as well as (maybe) a mashup of Ghost Dog and The Fisher King. Why? Because they’re there. I also have been planning to work on an essay about my late cousin, a more personal piece than I typically try to write for this site, but one that I think would be cathartic. It’s been difficult to work on.

I have an old school paper that I’m working on repurposing for this site, but that, too, has been far more involved than I expected. An article on the modern wave of transgender cinema is forthcoming as well. It’s the kind of article I’m never quite done with and will eventually simply have to push the button on publishing. I want to publish something on the Parasite graphic novel. Maybe I’ll write that V for Vendetta post after all, too.

I had several things in the hopper that are too little, too late, but which I might publish anyway, because fuck timeliness. A marathon of every single Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode? Check. The Magic: The Gathering / The Walking Dead controversy? Check. A piece on South Park‘s Pandemic Special? Check.
And much, much more. I hope anyone who has enjoyed my writing thus far will continue to do so.