The Moxie Blog: Two years old and still not listed as an A-list blog on blogebrity.com
Written by Dan
Well, here we are again. Another year of The Moxie Blog is through and done. When I started this blog 730 days ago, I had no idea it would be dragging on this long. It still seems strange to me that the entire theater, and the rest of The Moxie website, has materialized around the blog. I bet that's pretty rare in the business world. Can you imagine what this blog would be like if we were still in the process of opening? Pathetic. That's what it would be - absolutely pathetic.
But here we are, two years in! The number of articles I posted in year two was down 10% from the first year, but I attribute that to me being quite a bit more busy in this last year than I was in year one. I only managed to squeeze out 73,000 words this year, which is down quite a bit from the 100,000 I banged out in year one. At this rate, The Moxie Blog will only consist of two 1,000 word posts per year by 2017. But fear not, gentle reader. I guarantee you those will be two damn good posts.
Check out the special masthead today (avert your eyes to the top of the screen). It's a throwback to the olden days, before I had announced the location or name of our theater. How many of you were around back then? I can think of a few (Oz, Fyse, a few people who have, or had, "Whitt" as part of their name, etc.). Those were the days, huh. Back when men drank whiskey and women wore clothes. BUT ENOUGH WITH THE REMINISCING!
Instead of going on about the past, let's look ahead to the future! As most of you know, we're a little more than 2/3 of the way through our first year of business. Assuming we make it to the big ONE YEAR mark (a huge milestone for any small business), we're going to be hosting a week long set of festivities that will knock your freakin' socks off! The fun will begin on Thursday, September 14th and end on our one year mark, September 21st. Here's a small taste of what you can expect:
- Movie trivia night - teams will join together to answer difficult movie trivia (including questions about The Moxie), eat food, drink, and be merry.
- MST3K - another round of our popular Moxie Skinny Theater 3000.
- Unplugged concert - an acoustic concert with some of favorite local bands, along with cake and champagne.
- Special scavenger hunt - I can't say anymore about this one.
- Cinebar sponsor - another auction for the naming rights of our Cinebar.
- And possibly much, much more!
The biggest event of the week, however, will be a showcase of short films from local filmmakers. The films will be shown on the weekend of September 16-18, and an award ceremony will be held on September 20th. The only eligibility rules are that the film must be 20 minutes or less, and the filmmaker must reside within 100 miles of Springfield. Films will be judged by aneclectic panel of judges from Springfield, as well as by the audiences that view the films over the weekend. We want this to be a celebration of local film, first and foremost. We're not trying to create another film festival, we're just combining our favorite type of film (shorts) with our favorite kind of filmmaker (local). I'll post more information in the next couple days, but I wanted toannounce this as soon as possible so anyone who wanted to participate would have plenty of time to get their film done.
And that about does it for now. Happy Birthday to the old Moxie Blog, and a big thanks to all you loyal readers!