Self Assessment

In life, sometimes a person must expose himself to the harsh light of a critic's eye. I am no exception. Today, I am reviewing my own abilities as a blogger and a critic.

The challenge of a new hobby is sticking to it. All too often, a person will find a new avocation, embrace it for a while, and then let it wither on the vine. I only know 5 songs for the guitar and one of them is "Frere Jacques." I bought an old bicycle as a winter fix-up project. I worked on it twice and it is in worse shape now than when I bought it. I embarked on a blogging project and haven't posted since September 10, 2008.

I think the William Shatner post will go down in history as one of the greatest musical reviews in the history of the galaxy, possibly the universe. Not only did I talk about the music, I worked in a reference to TJ Hooker. Well I maybe skipped TJ Hooker, but the review was solid.

Sometimes, I'm prone to overstatement (see Beast with a Billion Backs, Gladiators of America). Too often, I start sentences with prepositional phrases. I do not always write in the active voice. I can never remember when to use "lay" versus "lie." I show flashes of brilliance then lay fallow for months. But at the end of the day, I offer a fair defense of my critiques and the reader walks away knowing why I think the way I think. And in the end, isn't that what a critic should do?

Jukebox the Critic: Three and a Half out of Five skulls
The "meta-ness" of this post: Five out of Five skulls