jetpack_monkey: (Willow - Poopy-set Aardvark)
Nate ([personal profile] jetpack_monkey) wrote2007-11-02 10:12 am

Like Butter Over Too Much Bread

I overextended myself in October. I admit this. The result was worth it -- Classic-Horror busted through all previous traffic records and we posted more content than in any previous month, with 32 reviews, 34 news stories, 7 features, and 2 interviews. Of those, I wrote eight of the reviews, all the news stories, six of the features, and I conducted one of the interviews via email and transcribed the audio of the other (all told, a total of nearly 22,000 words). On top of that, I edited roughly half of the other reviews. It's an accomplishment of which I'm proud -- as should everyone involved, but damn, I'm completely burned out now.

I'm thinking of taking a step back from the site in November, but I'm not sure how. I suppose that the method will present itself, since [profile] midnightfae and I are moving at the end of the month and there is still tons of packing to do.

At the same time, I'm a little drunk on the amazing traffic we pulled in October and keen to maintain a regular review schedule to try and keep some of that traffic. My goal has always been two reviews a week, although we almost never meet that. I think, however, if we bring on one or two more writers, we should be good to go.

Oh, and [profile] timjr? Sorry we haven't gotten you back your revisions yet. We're kind of taking it easy right now. Soon, though!

In case anyone was curious, The Roomie and I had our annual Halloween movie marathon. We kicked off on the night of the 30th and I took the 31st off so we could pack in as many films as possible. The list of films is below the cut (films I'd never seen before in bold).

10/30:
Army of Darkness (1992, in HD-DVD on my new HD-DVD player)
The Descent (2005)
Friday the 13th (1980)

10/31:
Night of the Werewolf (1980)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Ravenous (1999)
The Changeling (1980)
Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors V
Halloween (1978)

The roomie has Sunday off, so we're heading to Chandler Cinemas for a triple-feature of Return of the Living Dead (1985), Krull (1983), and Meet the Feebles (1989).

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