Toodles for now.

I will return to blogging eventually. I’m in the process of designing my own website that will have an embedded blog and where all previous blog entries from this blog and The Film School Dropout will be archived in a separate section. So archiving is/will be taking up the bulk of the conversion since I’ve already designed the website . At the absolute latest, the new site will be up by the Fall of this year. I’m taking classes over the summer, working a part-time job, taking care of a few things for this year’s Richmond Zine Fest and trying to start a 20-25 page paper that has to be submitted with my grad school applications to US’ three schools with a Film Preservation & Archiving MA program, since two of those schools have applications due in December.

Anything I write between now and then will premiere with the new website. I just don’t have the time or patience anymore to deal with the absurd amount of maintenance that keeping a blog is requiring as of late. It may be naive to hope that owning my own webspace will eliminate content stealers and Russian spammers, but I’m willing to give it a shot by placing some serious hurdles.

Relaunched

The blog is back up, complete with Creative Common and Copyscape logos on each post. Some new categories have been added, but for some reason is the category cloud is being buggy right now.

I’m still considering buying my own domain and webspace, but I haven’t figured out all the logistics just yet.

I will hopefully be posting some actual content within the next few days.

Going off the map

With the exception of a few entries, this blog is private until further notice. I will be taking care of some maintenance issues regarding this blog – namely posting the Creative Commons and Copyscape info on every single post I’ve written in the past year-and-a-half, as well as deleting other irrelevant posts. Hopefully it will only take a few days, but I can’t say for sure.

I’m honestly considering other options in regards to the future of this blog, including finding another blog host, or starting my own website. I didn’t have nearly as much trouble at Blogspot as I do with WordPress with spammers (both the type who try to post comments and the type who steal my content). Having two different people steal content from one blog post within three days on top of dealing with an uncooperative new neighbor who partially destroyed my car with her moving truck has just made me really tired of dealing with dishonest, lazy assholes.

Public Service Announcement: Yet again, don’t steal my blog posts

I guess this is becoming a twice-yearly thing.

I don’t care if you’re a crappy person looking to spam in some other country using the blog format: DO NOT USE MY BLOG POSTS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! You can’t use them without my permission or without acknowledgement of where the post came from (i.e., a simple link will do), you can’t use them to sell stuff without my permission, and you sure as hell can’t alter them in any way, shape, or form without my permission.

I’ve been using the Creative Commons since last November when it happened for the first time. It’s to the right of this post, seriously, you can click on it and see how I roll. The only thing that isn’t noted is that if you still go ahead and take my posts, I’ll personally contact whomever is hosting your blog.

I honestly don’t mind the goofy little blog and horror blog aggregators that come through and use my posts. They usually acknowledge where the posts came from, and occasionally bring traffic here, even if only one of these aggregators has invited me to join their site (unfortunately, it’s been overrun by Twilight posts). I do mind people who rip off entire posts and/or rip off entire posts, then splice them to make it look as though they didn’t.

If you want more background as to the first time this happened: go here. The funny thing is that this always seems to happen when I make a more Richmond-specific post. I guess I can expect this again in October or November if I post about this year’s Richmond Zine Fest again.

Meet my new tag: Worst Movie Ever

Before writing my last post, I knew I would be adding a new tag for this blog called “worst movie ever”. I also knew that besides tagging the previous post, I’d be tagging the post with Zombie Nation, the Troll 2 post, and the Sleepaway Camp II post. However, looking through all my old entries, I can’t decide whether or not I should tag some other entries as well. Some movies I find bad, but tend to forget afterwards unless they come up in conversation. So unless anyone thinks otherwise, that’s how I’m going to utilize the “worst movie ever” tag: if it is a movie that is memorably bad, then it sticks.