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Feif Umgotnn started a Listology group on Last.fm, if you're interested in giving it a look (or listen).

Great news folks, Impostor has agreed to run the Secret Santa this year! Here are his instructions. I'm in, how 'bout you?

Thank you, Impostor!

My Dad just brought this cool George Kennedy perspective on Paul Newman to my attention. Here's that scene from Cool Hand Luke on YouTube.

Paul Newman, great actor and even better person, has died at 83. Greencine has a wonderful collection of tributes and thoughts. Crushed. I'm going to go watch Nobody's Fool.

Great news, folks, our very own heyrocker volunteered run Listology just as soon as we can manage a graceful passing of the reins! I am so relieved and happy (and grateful!) that the site will live on. I hope you'll join me in thanking him for taking on the job. I can say first hand that it's very rewarding, but also a lot of work, and as I made clear in my initial resignation post, there's some significant labor ahead.

Sorry, I wanted to make a quick follow-up post regarding my resignation to the home page so everyone would see it. Two things:

First, thank you all for the kind words, support, and understanding! I'm overwhelmed. I started to feel silly thanking each person individually who posted on the other page, but please know that I'm reading everything, and I'm touched.

[ Please read to the end for various updates. Listology has a new lease on life! ]

Howdy folks,

I've been mulling this over for weeks (years, even, as this is not the first time I've posted looking for somebody to take over Listology only to relent), and I have decided the time has come for me to either shut down Listology or pass it off to a successor. While the latter would be GREAT, there are a number of obstacles:

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Just a quick service update: Soon I'm going to disable the feature where you can import your Netflix queue, and I'm also going to stop supporting the Netflix Tracker tool. Two reasons: [1] Netflix supports queue-sharing via their "friends" features, and [2] Whenever Netflix changes their markup the features break, and I don't want to keep up with that. If they ever expose an API perhaps these features will be reinstated. I just wanted to give you a little warning before I pull them. Thanks!

The American Spectator has an interesting article on cinematic evil and The Dark Knight.

Okay, I didn't see this coming. Anybody want to guess what Darren Aronofsky's next movie is going to be?