Ah can you believe it? Today is Final Girl's birthday, she is now 20 years old! Time sure does fly when you're writin' about horror movies. At some point I suppose I'll have to change the name of this place to Final Ma'am or Final Crone or what have you, but that's the future. This is the now, and in this here now she is still supple and sprightly. Effervescent!
Wow, rude as ever. Some things never change.
But some other things do. And in case you missed the post I made on "social" "media," let me hip you to a change: There is now a companion podcast to this here blog! It's called Final Girl After Dark, and it's available wherever you like to listen to podcasts. You can also listen at FinalGirlAfterDark.com.
I gotta tell ya, I'm super excited. I hope that it feels like Final Girl, except you're listening instead of reading. We'll see! Once in a while I might have a guest, but mostly it'll be just me. Look for it in the "old woman with microphone" category of your local podcast directory. I posted a little introduction yesterday--well, "little" is relative. Usually those sorts of things are 1 or 2 minutes long but this one was 10, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever read this site. As we all know I can spend 600 words talking about whatever before I remotely get to some kind of a point or the name of the movie I mean to address. But you know what? That's power of the BLOG, baby, I won't be tied to some notion of "concise writing" or "staying on topic."
So, it'll be like that. New episodes will be posted on Wednesdays, and the first full episode went up today. I'm celebrating the launch of the pod and FG's bday by talking about FEARDOTCOM (2002), which is certainly a choice.
Part of the celebration also takes place over at The Evolution of Horror's Patreon, wherein I chat with Mike Muncer about this blog and The Old Days and I answer a slew of questions from listeners. I had a good time, so I hope it's also a good time to listen to.
I probably should have come up with some grander way to mark this milestone, you know, a look back on my favorite posts or something, but honestly that Q&A filled up my Being Perceived Meter enough for a while. So I will just give a heartspacefelt THANK YOU for hanging out! It's truly flattering that anyone wants to read what I write (or hear what I have to say) about horror movies or anything else, and I know some of you have been around for close to--if not all of--these past 20 years. It blows my mind! And I'm really grateful. I know there are many things vying for our attention 24/7, so thanks for making time for the ol' FG.
