Bad Timing and Beyond
By Warren Curry
11/17/2005
The idea to jumpstart CinemaSpeak.com as a pseudo-blog site was mine. Don't blame Dan Tester, or anyone else who might contribute columns in the future. Everyone's blogging these days, so why shouldn't we? Anyone who's been fortunate enough to read Tester's message board rants in the past surely won't object to him having this forum. Unless, of course, you're one of the many people he's targeted in the past. But you probably aren't…
The demise of the original incarnation of CinemaSpeak.com was a long, drawn out process. Somehow the site lasted for two years, even though my partner in this mess, Ian, jumped ship only a few months after this monstrosity infected the World Wide Interweb. It's kind of amusing and sad to think this site became a source of tension, resentment and animosity to some who worked on it. Not to any great degree, of course, and I suppose it was to be expected. I learned quite a bit from creating/working on the site, and met lots of neat people. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing. Actually, I would…in fact, I'd change a lot.
While CinemaSpeak, launched in 2002, was about five years too late in its formation to be an extremely relevant movie review site (since we lacked any sort of advertising budget), CinemaSpeakBlog (as Tester casually dubbed it) is probably an idea we should've come up with the day I decided to shut down operations on the previous version of this site. Timing has never been my strong suit. So what can you expect to read in the future on CinemaSpeak? To be honest, I don't know. The hope is that, between Tester and I, we can crank out one new column per week. I have given Dan very loose editorial guidelines. As long as he mentions movies or television somewhere in his columns, he's free to write about whatever he'd like.
I still continue to review films for the website Entertainment Insiders, but CinemaSpeak will allow me to convey my impressions of the movie world (and beyond) in a more casual setting. If anyone has comments please drop us an e-mail (our message board was hacked).
So, anyhow, the above is my lame reintroduction to this site. We're back and the world suddenly looks like a much better place. Tune in next week (or perhaps the week after that?) for the long-awaited return of Dan Tester.
