With the beginning of 2013, I have decided I need to write more. There are often times when I want an outlet for my strong opinions on a movie, book, television show, or magazine, but don’t have a place to share those in detail. And I have funny, weird stories I want to record and share, like a written scrapbook, which I guess is just a journal. Being keenly aware of my lack of discipline, I had to choose the public option or I would never write a word. Thus, the blog.
The Critical Dan blog will be a mixture of criticism and memoir, where one post might review a recent documentary on Coca-Cola with a later post regaling folks of the time I made Coca-Cola cake without the baking powder, resulting in a substance more akin to brown jello than anything.
Plans are to write two posts a week with one critique and one personal story, for the entire year. The list of potential topics is constantly growing, but I plan on writing one post a month reviewing my book club’s current pick, cannot wait to receive and review my first McSweeney’s Quarterly of the year, plan to visit a handful of those Oscar hopefuls (even if they came out in 2012), and am staring at old issues of the New Yorker I need to pick through. If the one person reading this has any recommendations, send ’em along!
I’m skeptical I’ll make it to February, especially since I’m already behind the new year bandwagon, but I figure better late than never. I’m excited at the potential this has for both my writing and analytical skills and hope I finish more than eight posts before I forget/get lazy/get anxious about not writing/get neurotic about my anxiety and this whole business unravels.
With low expectations, it’s quite difficult to fail!
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