Hey guys! Happy New Year and welcome back to my blog. It's a new year which means I'll be changing some things up for 2021. Including a brand new focus for the blog. So let's get into it.
When I deleted the blog from Wordpress and relaunched it on Blogger I was expecting it to be pretty much the same as it had been over there. Low viewing numbers, no interaction, and a chore to do every week. But you guys have been awesome and I am averaging a total of 20 views per post with the post I did with Aaron reaching up to 45 views total. Which is pretty impressive for a small blog such as this one. So thank you and please continue to read my reviews and share my posts with people. That really helps.
I finally got to check something off my list that I've had on it since I started the blog on Wordpress six years ago. I finally got to write about The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin on VHS. That was the most fun I had writing a series of blog posts. Of course I couldn't've done it with my buddy Vincent from The Grundo Gazette, an amazing Teddy Ruxpin fansite and YouTube channel. If you're a Teddy Ruxpin fan and haven't checked them out yet, please do so, they are awesome.
In 2021 I'm going to be making a few changes to the blog. For the last two months or so I've been doing a weekly Disney segment as well as a family friendly entertainment segment on the blog. I'm getting rid of those because while they are alot of fun, they are difficult to work in when I have movies and TV shows to watch, books and comics to read, and other things to talk about. So those segments will be folded back in with my regular reviews. They're still happening, just not as weekly segments.
The next change I'm going to be making is reducing my output back to twice a week. Mondays for sure, but I'm not sure if I'm going to make the second day Fridays or Saturdays. Thursdays are out for reviews because The Goldbergs is returning with new episodes next week and will continue to be on on Wednesday nights for the foreseeable future. Fridays are a strong possibility though because the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Discovery airs this week and unlike the end of 2020, where we went right from the first season of Lower Decks into the third season of Discovery, there's not another Star Trek series that's airing right after Discovery season 3 ends, so there's a bit of a break between seasons of Star Trek, which I appreciate because it gets pretty intense at times and it's hard to go from one, right into another so quickly. So Fridays will most likely be my second posting day. At least until the next Star Trek series starts or some other show I'm actually interested in comes on on Thursday nights. Like The Hardy Boys, which I still don't have a premiere date from YTV for.
The biggest change that I will be implementing in 2021 is a slight change in focus for the blog as a whole. I've always been a nostalgia guy. I love nostalgia. Particularly '90s and 2000s nostalgia because that's the stuff I grew up on with a couple of things from the '60s, '70s and '80s thrown in there for good measure. And I've always tried to only talk about that stuff here on the blog, with stuff from the 2010s and 2020 thrown in as well. So in 2021 I am going to focus on '80s, '90s and 2000s movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, video games, and music on the blog. But because there are some movies, TV shows, books and comics from earlier decades, particularly things from the '20s through to the '70s, basically if it had a theatrical re-release, re-publication or re-airing in the '80s, '90s or 2000s, I'll also cover it on the blog. Particularly if it's something I first read or watched in the '90s and 2000s. Because, again, that's my wheelhouse.
When I first relaunched the blog in March of last year, just as the pandemic was starting, I had intended on covering music alot more, especially the albums that got me through my teen years in the 2000s and other things like that. But with everything else that I did on the blog in 2020, music kind of fell to the wayside and I only ended up reviewing one CD, Planet Pop 2000, last year. But that is going to change this year, starting this Friday.
That's it for me for today but I will be back tomorrow with a review of the 2020 live action version of Mulan. While it came out in 2020, it's '90s related because it's source material, the 1998 animated movie, came out in the '90s. Then on Friday I'll be taking a look at the very first CD that I ever got as a present back in December of 1997, Savage Garden by the band, Savage Garden which is one of my favourite bands of all time. So stay tuned for that and in the mean...oh and I might repost some of my earlier '90s and '80s related reviews like New Mutants #98, The Terminator etc to clean them up and connect them to the new focus of the blog. Not sure on that yet though. In the meantime have a wonderful afternoon and I will see you back here tomorrow for my review of Mulan (2020). Take care!
Thanks for the update! I made sure to share this with my Twitterverse.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thanks Ed!
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