In which the Meridian announces that he's just become a published author (sort of)

Cartoon found at Redeye VC


I've recently joined Blogcritics.org, which describes itself thusly in its masthead:

A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics.

My kind of place.

I am impressed by the level of writing and thoughtfulness of commentary I've seen there . . . which of course begs the question of why they let the likes of me join them. See, for example, this review of Junebug, which I also posted on a while back. Good, good stuff, in my opinion--Pacze Moj's post, not mine.

I'd also say this regarding Blogcritics: that certain of you who visit here would also find a place there for your work, I think. You can't just sign up and start sending stuff in; they make you jump through a few hoops. But the result appears to be posts of good quality, so one can't argue with that--especially if one wants to have one's work seen in good company so as to make one's work look better by association. Whether you think of yourself as a critic or are just in search of good criticism on the Web, I encourage all of you to go have a look around.

Anyway, my first post for them has just been published. A word of warning to my long-time reader(s): it's an edited version of that post on shots of cushions in Vertigo (they wanted something within 24 hours of my joining, and so, yeah, I sorta recycled something. But they SAID it was okay to do that! Okay??). So: if you want to put yourself through the slog of reading that yet again, you can find it here.

All this is a very long-winded way of thanking you (or, for that matter, giving you the opportunity to kick yourselves) for your encouragement in the past. Without that, I wouldn't have risked posting my work elsewhere.

Technorati tags:
Film, Film criticism, Vertigo, Blogcritics.org