As I wrote in my last post over on REELFocus.org, I closed that blog and opened this one because I couldn’t commit the kind of time necessary to continue with a more “professional” blog. I also didn’t want to limit myself to just talking about movies when there are so many other things I am interested in.

So of course, here in my first post on Mental Graffiti, I am going to talk about movies.

More specifically, about the movie marathon that I attended this past weekend.  Once a month or so, the members of the Tallahassee Writers Group (of which I am a member) organize a movie marathon as an excuse to get together at an apartment, eat good food, hang out and watch movies for 12 hours or so.

This started after we decided to stage a marathon viewing of the entire run of the short-lived (but always awesome) TV space western Firefly. Our excuse in doing this was to introduce it to the couple of members who’d never seen it, but in reality we just wanted to get together and watch it again.

Since then, we’ve done a hodge-hodge “play whatever we’ve got on the shelf” marathon, an animated movie marathon, a “so bad its good” marathon and this past weekend we reached into the past and did a classic movie marathon.
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