The Vintage Reader

Oh my goodness!

I'm very happy this morning because I just found that I've been blogged at one of my favorite blogs, Thrilling Days of Yesteryear.

Ivan mostly writes wonderfully in-depth commentary about old movies, but also looks at vintage TV and radio shows, and sometimes other nostalgic stuff. I particularly enjoy his comments about the place most of us get our old movies these days: cable TV. For example, from this post:

American Movie Classics, which does on occasion manage to showcase a movie worthy of its moniker, was showing The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), two films I like very much made longer by the fact that AMC apparently has to cut into them every five minutes to provide a bathroom break for what I’m assuming is a large audience of the incontinent.

Thrilling Days always has the curious effect of making me want to go back to what I used to do here--review old books--even while knowing that my reviews lack the kind of depth that I enjoy so much in his.