The 100th Post Spectacular

Hey, this is my 100th post!
When this little effort began I never thought I'd end up writing so much, and I thank all of the fine folks who stop by here every few days to read my stuff and leave comments. The list has been slowly growing, and that's a really neat thing to see.


Yes, friends, this blog has evolved quite a bit, hasn't it? What started out as something I didn't even WANT to do has become one of my favorite pastimes. See, this effort began way back in February of 2009 when my boss decided that having me review movies would be a good way to punch up the radio station's website. Being the miserable workaholic that I was at that time, I was thoroughly annoyed by the idea, and dragged my feet on making new entries for the first several months. I was like, "No one wants to read any crap that I write!", and grudgingly typed out one-paragraph reviews whenever I happened to have a spare five minutes. It was a sad excuse for a blog, really.

Over time, however, I started to ENJOY coming up with new entries -- not only about movies, but about other stuff, as well. For years, I'd been kicking around ideas for all sorts of random crap to write or publicly speak about, and the blog turned out to be a great medium for acting on those ideas. I now get a great deal of enjoyment out of posting to this thing, and also love checking out the blogs of others who I've found as a result of my work here.

Anyway, just to celebrate my hitting of the 100 post mark, I thought I'd go back and compile some statistics on what I've done so far. Let's take a walk down Memory Lane with a quick summary, shall we?

--Number of Reviews posted:

77

--Average score of all films reviewed:

2.9 out of 5.
(I'm actually surprised by this result; I would have thought I was much more negative about stuff.)

--Number of films to have received a coveted 5 out of 5 rating:

8.

Trust
Forbidden Zone
UHF
Ed Wood
Blindness
The Fisher King
The Angry Video Game Nerd (a web series, actually)
Let The Right One In

--Number of films to have received four out of five:

14.

Fido
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
The Invasion
Shattered Glass
Run Fatboy Run
Panic In Year Zero
The State (TV series)
Inglourious Basterds
Hamlet 2
SLC Punk
Zombieland
Avatar
The Book Of Eli
My Name Is Bruce

--Number to receive three out of five:

27.

Species
The Jimmy Show
Civic Duty
Cashback
Star Trek
Basket Case
Domino
Shadow of the Vampire
Woodenhead
The Last Man On Earth
A Perfect Getaway
The Quiet Earth
Population 436
Over The GW
Alligator People
Boy Eats Girl
Sunshine Cleaning
The Onion Movie
Cheerleader Ninjas
Drag Me To Hell
Thankskilling
Satanic Yuppies
The Strangers
The Lovely Bones
American Zombie
Delgo
Postal

--Two out of five:

21.

Mister Lonely
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Happy Accidents
.45
Funny Games
Stephen Tobolowski's Birthday Party
No Such Thing Mulva 2: Kill Teen Ape
Teenape Goes To Camp
Island of Lost Women
Outlaw
Havoc
2012
ZA: Zombies Anonymous
Capitalism: A Love Story
Pieces
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Dorm Of The Dead
Blow Dry
Downloading Nancy
Following

--One out of five:

7.

Night of the Living Dorks
Cherry Crush
Terror At Blood Fart Lake
Sorority Sister Slaughter
My Big, Fat Independent Movie
Splatter Disco
Cherry 2000


--Films to have received ZERO out of five:

1.

Diary Of A Cannibal
(The worst of the bunch.)


--Number of zombie movies reviewed:

8.

--Number of Milla Jovovich references:

10.


--Number of posts devoted to cheap snack foods:

11.

--Number of posts that I deleted after having published for a short time (probably because they upset my fiance too much):

4.

A Review of the horror movie, Teeth.

An analysis of what makes a good horror movie.

A post about the Octomom and Jon and Kate.

A post about a website that lets users digitally insert their own faces into a horror movie. I made a few videos of myself being killed in brutal ways, but took it down after a few hours (screenshot below).

(And BLAM -- I had my brains blown out)

--Number of countdown lists posted:

3.

Five Minor Problems I Have With Movies

The Five Funniest Movies Ever Made

My Top Five Christmas Movies

--Number of movie, TV show, or business ideas that I have pitched:

8.

Hank of the Future (tv series)
Maximum Extreme 2 (movie)
Le Art Film (movie)
Damn Good Snack Foods (company)
Company, Incorporated (company)
Save A Dave (charity)
The Countdown Channel (TV network)
The Struggles of Frida (movie)

--Number of those pitches that actually became anything:

Zero.

--Number of swearwords used:

Zero.

--Post to have received the most hits:

"Where Were You When Michael Jackson Died?", Thursday, July 2, 2009

(According to my traffic meter, this one has received the most hits, via Google Image Search, due to its inclusion of the "Cool Story, Bro!" graphic seen below.)


--Number of posts that should have gotten me fired:

100.

Well, there you have it. There's my year of blogging, in a nutshell. I look forward to continuing, and hope 2010 will be a time of even deeper chuckles and better movies.

Huzzah!

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