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Come on in!  Sit yourself down and cut yourself a slice of cake!*

After nine years and three months stinking out DVDReviewer, I've decided it's time for a change of scenery and a change of web presence.

Over that past nine years, I've probably been on DVDReviewer at least once a day, and I've seen it change.  I've seen familiar names come and go, colleagues join the magic band of pixies that write the reviews none of the forumites ever read, and other colleagues wander off to do something more interesting after a while.

DVDReviewer has always been a special place on the web for me.  It was never as hostile as AICN (what is?), as snooty as DVDTimes, as insidery as Roobarb's or as anal as the Home Theater Forum.  All right, so you couldn't have a good techy discussion without somebody threadfarting a nerd alert or hijacking the thread to discuss the football, but it was always a friendly, chummy sort of place where you could share your troubles and there was always a sympathetic ear.

Was. 

I'm hoping that the spirit of the old DVDReviewer can be found here at MyReviewer and the Sprocket Hole.  I'm going to concentrate all of my efforts on making more frequent blog entries and on a wider range of topics than just DVDs and old movies and television.  I'm still going to write the odd review - the odder the better - and make passing comment on current affairs. All the sorts of things I used to do on the DVDReviewer forums.  That will include the very occasional obituary in tribute to a personally respected personality which had better not degenerate into a series of catty and irrelevant comments about one role in their career.

*"Sit yourself down and cut yourself a slice of cake" was something of a catchphrase for my old maternal great-grandfather.  Whenever one of my grandad's sisters would bring home a feller, he'd greet them with the line, and chortle to himself as the unfortunate suitor would look around for the non-existent cake.

I come from a long line of nutters.

Posted by Mark Oates