Hello, world

As the years roll forward, it’s probably increasingly weird for a blog to begin with a “hello, world” post — a practice that seems so late 20th Century to me, or to date to the Aughts at the latest. But here I am, just testing out this blog’s template/formatting/etc. with a simple post, promising there is more to come. This 2024 holiday season, expect this blog to be populated once a day (if all goes well) with reviews of holiday movies, classic and cult, merry and macabre, nostalgic and novel. I am interested in the art form of the holiday movie, in the ways holidays do and don’t show up on our screens, and in the attachments we form over the years to media that become somehow part of the family in ways that even the most popular and best-beloved media at any other time of year don’t seem to become.

I hope it’ll be amusing, surprising, sometimes sweet, and perhaps even insightful. We’ll see what comes! Thanks for peeking at this, in the meanwhile.