2007: This Journal In Review
Dec. 31st, 2007 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAlthough not inspired by anything I've seen on my friends page in the past few days, or indeed by anything I've seen on any other journal in that time, I've decided to look back on my first set of January-to-December postings and put down the first sentence of the first post of each month, to see if I can draw any grand conclusions from it.
January: Among all the varied events and feelings that mark the beginning of a new year for me, there's the small question of just what's going to happen with the "Classic Peanuts" reruns this year.
February: I don't know if I'll ever be able to work up the courage to seek out the Star Wars Holiday Special and see it for myself.
March: A fairly obvious subject, perhaps (and one that I've seen elsewhere already), but I've been trying to keep up on the New Horizons probe passing Jupiter; that doesn't happen every day (as opposed to Saturn...)
April: I've returned to one of the first Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes I ever saw.
May: After setting down a few thoughts on all of the anime I watched over the course of the last year, I started wondering about doing that more often.
June: It's been a while since I last watched an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and commented on it, but since then I've been putting a bit of thought into what I'll watch next.
July: "The Complete Peanuts," with its promise of reprinting all the Peanuts comics strips, may have helped touch off a whole series of efforts to reprint other bits of "Schulz-iana."
August: I decided to go to the movies today, and took in Sunshine, a science fiction movie from director Danny Boyle, who also made Trainspotting and 28 Days Later.
September: Four months ago, I got around to writing a post that looked back at the anime I had watched in the first third of the year.
October: Time for something more cheerful.
November: It seems to me that a movie is definitely attracting pre-release attention when not just its trailer but a text description of that trailer becomes a topic of discussion.
December: It's back to looking at the episodes of the twelfth Mystery Science Theater 3000 collection, and specifically "The Starfighters."
As for the conclusions: For all that I sometimes wonder if my posting schedule amounts to "Watch a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode and throw some thoughts together, then try to think of one other thing for the week," I seem to have covered a good number of bases, from Peanuts to space to anime to an actual movie not quite connected to some specific title-centric "fandom" (and a few slightly cryptic sentences)... although my one reference to Star Wars is a passing one meant to introduce a post on Robotech.
See you in the new year!
January: Among all the varied events and feelings that mark the beginning of a new year for me, there's the small question of just what's going to happen with the "Classic Peanuts" reruns this year.
February: I don't know if I'll ever be able to work up the courage to seek out the Star Wars Holiday Special and see it for myself.
March: A fairly obvious subject, perhaps (and one that I've seen elsewhere already), but I've been trying to keep up on the New Horizons probe passing Jupiter; that doesn't happen every day (as opposed to Saturn...)
April: I've returned to one of the first Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes I ever saw.
May: After setting down a few thoughts on all of the anime I watched over the course of the last year, I started wondering about doing that more often.
June: It's been a while since I last watched an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and commented on it, but since then I've been putting a bit of thought into what I'll watch next.
July: "The Complete Peanuts," with its promise of reprinting all the Peanuts comics strips, may have helped touch off a whole series of efforts to reprint other bits of "Schulz-iana."
August: I decided to go to the movies today, and took in Sunshine, a science fiction movie from director Danny Boyle, who also made Trainspotting and 28 Days Later.
September: Four months ago, I got around to writing a post that looked back at the anime I had watched in the first third of the year.
October: Time for something more cheerful.
November: It seems to me that a movie is definitely attracting pre-release attention when not just its trailer but a text description of that trailer becomes a topic of discussion.
December: It's back to looking at the episodes of the twelfth Mystery Science Theater 3000 collection, and specifically "The Starfighters."
As for the conclusions: For all that I sometimes wonder if my posting schedule amounts to "Watch a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode and throw some thoughts together, then try to think of one other thing for the week," I seem to have covered a good number of bases, from Peanuts to space to anime to an actual movie not quite connected to some specific title-centric "fandom" (and a few slightly cryptic sentences)... although my one reference to Star Wars is a passing one meant to introduce a post on Robotech.
See you in the new year!