The month of July marks the 1 year anniversary of The Movie Blog (actual date is July 24th). I can't believe it's been a year. I was sitting in my friend's basement on my laptop posting to my personal blog about a movie I'd just seen. I did that a lot, so the idea crossed my mind to start a new blog that would just focus on movies. The next day I threw a quick design together and put up my first post (it was about Seabiscuit if I remember correctly).

We've come a long way, and yet not far at all. Our traffic at the end of our fist month was a whopping 218 unique visitors. Our traffic for the end of June 2004 was just a touch under 70,000 unique visitors (small by most standards, but pretty big for ours). And yet we're still just a stupid little site where a couple of geeks like to post their thoughts about movies� and hopefully that's what we'll always be.

So for myself, Day-Vuh, Bubba, Rodney and the occasional others who posted here along the way, I'd like to thank all of you who come by to read our rantings and join in the rantings with us in the comments sections. I've had so much fun with this silly little site this year that it almost seems unfair that I take home a $200,000 a year salary for doing it (and if you believe that�)

So here's the deal: We'll keep posting, you keep reading and commenting along the way! Oh, and send me some cans of soup� I'm really hungry! ~John