This logo right here, right above where I'm writing these words for you to be able to scrounge up with your eyes for me personally has become iconic. This isn't my digital handiwork though-this was done by a friend of mine that I unfortunately don't really communicate with anymore like I used to, but the tides of time shift the layers of sand in different directions for all of us whether we like it or not. Indifference aside, I still love this to death, wish him and his family well, and hope that maybe someday in the future we could reconnect in a normal fashion so much like we used to.
But I'm not spewing these constructed letters into language buildings for the sake of trying to get a lost friend back. Oh no, that's not in the color of my blood. That's something that he has to work out for himself. I'm sitting here on this day because I can't believe that I have been going at this under the Cinema Slayer name for ten years. Today is a decade past that I decided in which it would be a good idea (under the influence of many brewski's as well as it being 6am after work back then) that I should combine my incessant need to read, write and watch horror flicks all into one thing. Somehow. So I decided to look up random shit about blogging or "how to start a blog" and bullshit like that. It was way easier than I had anticipated, and the actual skeleton if you look at the very bottom of the site copyright (very, very closely) you can see that it says "Gregory's Obsession". That's because I actually used this very site to try and start a blog waaaaaaayyy back when my wife and I still lived in Champaign/Urbana probably sometime in 2011 or 2012. I named it just that and the only few posts that I wrote were about a few different games that I had been playing on PS3 at the time. But I didn't want to ultimately write about video games-I wanted to do something else. Something that I had never really been into before.
Horror movies.
Yeah. But I had no basis. No where to start. No idea about a format. My writing skills and inflection back then were pure shit. Hell, I don't think they're that much better now, but at least I feel when I write something these days it has a salt of completion about it. Sometimes that taste is a little salty, but I still have my wit, my energy and my creativity. I guess. That's for all of you to absorb and hold a hand on high to determine if my work is even worth it. I think, for one, it has been after all of these years and now that it's getting towards the end of January in fucking 2025 (my God) I'm on the edge of finishing the second Cinema Slayer book and have plans for something else that I'm going to start work up on again that I abandoned a number of years ago that I feel needs to be put into print.
And it has nothing to do with movies or video games. Or anything of that nature.
But I just wanted to tell all of you thank you from the bottom of my hollow heart-and whether you've been reading my crap since day one or you just found my site yesterday-it doesn't matter. What matters is that I've put together something that you all can point fingers and laugh at, and I can have fun doing it. So here's to another hopeful ten years. And may I finally find some kind of peace in being a shoddy wordsmith.
I bow in respect.
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