Via Balloon Juice, I found this interesting article in the New Yorker called "What Your Tweets Say about You," which reports on a study of just that, but also at the end has this observation about blogging and social media:

For decades, Pennebaker’s studies have shown that when people keep a journal they tend to fare better emotionally, recover ( Read more... )

The year is drawing to a close, and I am succumbing to the urge to look back. The calendar year is an arbitrary unit for contemplation, but it's also a handy way to parse things into intelligible chunks. As such, 2014 doesn't seems very remarkable in any way, but maybe I'm just in a jaded mood ( Read more... )

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Not sure how that got to my film blog, but I suppose all those terms appear there somewhere, even if not all in the same post.

Yesterday the following search string reached my film blog: "gravity too melodramatic". Well, that was probably a satisfied searcher ("The character moments felt too melodramatic to me," I wrote, regarding Gravity), but the lower case makes it a pretty funny statement in its own right. As we liked to say in my younger days, "Gravity sucks!"

Okay, here's an e-mail I got yesterday that I don't really grok:

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One of the leading search terms for my film blog right now is "plantation slave sex stories."

A while back on my blog I posted a review of a Chinese film called My Lucky Star, which stars (and was produced by) Zhang Ziyi and which I described as "romantic comedy meets James Bond". One of the things that fascinated me about what turned out to be a fairly humdrum movie was that it was directed by an American television director named Dennie ( Read more... )

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I guess I should pay more attention to the Traffic Source section of Google Analytics, because this morning I was looking it over and found a referral from theeveningclass.blogspot.com. Curious, I went to check it out and found this lovely interview with Dave Kehr about his collection When Movies Mattered. And I'm mentioned in it! The interviewer, ( Read more... )

I think I wrote last year about a poet who had contacted me regarding my blog post about a silent film called The Wishing Ring. She had never seen the movie, but she was interested in one of the screen caps I'd posted. We corresponded for a while about silent film, and I encouraged her to watch The Wishing Ring, which is an utterly delightful, ( Read more... )