I'm back, bitches.

I wish I could say I return from my vacation refreshed and with a renewed sense of blogging purpose, but you know, within mere hours of reconnecting with my medium of choice I was looking around thinking, "Damn, what are yo-yos X, Y and Z yammering about now? Who signed me up for this? Is there any escape from noise?"

To tell you the truth, near the end of our sojourn in the midwest, a fair portion of which was spent visiting the in-laws, My Lovely Wife and I hit upon what we considered a very attractive plan: to entirely renounce adulthood and live out the rest of our lives under the roof of our hosts, not doing much of anything but enjoying the fabulous blonde brownies concocted by the household's patriarch, the fried chicken at Stroud's, the pork sandwiches at Arthur Bryant's, and the Playboy Strip steak/battered lobster tail do-it-yourself surf-and-turf at Jess and Jim's. Given such a diet, our abdication of adulthood would probably only burden our folks for a couple of years, tops. But what a way to go.

We proposed this plan, and it was received with surprising enthusiasm by our kin, although soon enough provisos involving us "doing stuff" in order to "earn our keep" were mentioned. We protested that this kind of missed the whole point of our proposal. Things did not become heated, but neverthless an insurmountable impasse presented itself.

Sigh.

My thanks to Mr. Aaron Aradillas for his contributions to the blog in my absence. We are working out a hopefully mutually satisfactory approach to part two of his Jonathan Demme survey. In the meantime...I am NOT going to the Toronto Film Festival this year. Poor planning on my part is the culprit, so all I can mourn is my own fecklessness. The bright side is that everybody and his or her mother in the cine-blogosphere is going; hence, this site can serve as, um, counter-programming.

And sorry about the "bitches." It is an attention-grabber, though, no?

Comments

[bill]

Welcome back, Glenn. You do seem refreshed, and feisty.

This will sound completely random, because it is, but just today I was thinking about how much I loved my new Herzog/Kinski box-set (though I've had no time to actually watch any of it), and it occurred to me that you never seem to mention Herzog. I mean, what the hell??[/randomness]

[Tony Dayoub]

Glad to see you back, Glenn.

[Tim Lucas]

Welcome back, Glenn! I missed your Lovely Wife (my best regards) and am glad you both had a good vacation. I had a good one myself this year, and know all too well what you mean about returning full of the temptation to turn the status quo on its ear. I've been having some luck with this actually, and hope you will too.

[Mark]

Good to have you back Glenn, and thanks to Aaron for entertaining us in the meantime.

Looking forward to your thoughts on the upcoming slate of fall movies, particularly 'Appaloosa' and 'The Hurt Locker'.

[Mary Kay]

Glad you're back, Glenn. Aaron did a fine job as our substitute blogger, so you can be proud the site stayed on top of things while you relaxed.

[Owain Wilson]

That fried chicken at Stroud's sounds good.