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My Film Club collaborator, Skunkcabbage, has been on the road for the last few weeks, so that's the main reason why this blog has been quiet for a while. We should be watching our next pick (Modern Times) this weekend, and the semi-weekly routine should pick up shortly thereafter.

Also: as part of my redesign thinking, I'm considering porting this whole blog over to Wordpress.com. In fact I've already done it, just to see: take a look. Is there any good reason, beyond aesthetics, that I should choose one over the other?

pardon our dust

In the midst of making some design tweaks to this site, and (to a degree) rethinking its relationship to its parent blog, Raccoon. Things look a bit janked-up here at the moment, but tweaks in the forseeable future are likely to improve that state of affairs, and hopefully we'll end up with a better-looking blog at the end of it.

away notification

We've been continuing with Film Club in recent weeks, and we've seen some interesting stuff, including Atom Egoyan's adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Joe Swanberg's LOL, and I'm planning to do a paired write-up of those two films.

However... I'm also in the throes of executing a cross-country move, from Chicago to the Greater Boston Area, and my days have been pretty consumed with packing, purging, and lugging. Thursday (the 31st) I drive halfway to Boston and Friday (the 1st) I go the rest of the way, and this blog will update again not long afterwards.

hiatus

I'm off to my annual journey to New Hampshire for Spring, the conference / temporary autonomous zone / adult camp that I've been involved with for the last eight years. Consequently, all blogs will likely be on hiatus until mid-June.

Some of my photos from past Springs are available here, if you want to get some kind of idea of what I'll be up to.