I just finished watching "Ghostbusters". On VHS, in all its grainy glory. Great film, always will be and there will never be another one like it.

But as many times as I've seen it, I am only just now noticing the splatter that was Mr. Stay-Puft, after Venkman and Co. cross the streams to close that door, there is a wide shot of the top of the building exploding. Look close at the base at that explosion and you can see what's left of Mr. Stay-Puft disintegrate. It only lasts about half a second, before it cuts to the streets below where there is marshmallow everywhere.

Heh... I guess the exploding building distracted me from the exploding marshmallow man.

I was going to sit at my desk and do some writing.

Instead, I spend the next 30 minutes staring at a blank piece of paper. Frustrated, I throw some Tom Petty on the turntable and collapse on the bed.

I go outside with notebook in tow and sit beneath a tree in the front yard. With the traffic whizzing by on the road next to the house and the sounds of the outdoors chattering in my ears, I come up with a couple of decent ideas, and go back inside. Grabbing a root beer from the fridge, I put Tom Petty back on, and set out to flesh these ideas.

A couple of hours later and two circuits through "Damn the Torpedoes", because I was really getting into the album and didn't feel like changing records anyway, I have a couple of comic strips drawn.

With the assistance of an LJ client and a tape of Seal's first album playing on my boombox, I have purged my LJ. About 7 years worth of stuff.

It's funny, looking back on all those entries (well, the subject titles), and knowing exactly what was going on in my life at the time of a post. Some good, some bad. But now it's all gone.

Now what do I do from here on out? We'll see.

I think I might give this blogging thing another try. I may or may not go back and clear out my previous entries. Actually, I thought about setting up camp elsewhere, since LJ seems kinda dead lately.

Either way, let's see how this thing goes.

Oh... also, if you have a Twitter, you can follow me. I might actually follow you back: http://twitter.com/rblake77

On another note, I really need to change those moodicons and spruce this place up a bit.