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Monday, August 06, 2007

The End

Hello!

Yes, here it is. This is it. The end of The Fake Life movie blog. We're not doing it anymore. It's over. Kaput. Flat-line. Nil Points. Fin. FATALITY!

I know, but move away from the windows, close the knife draw and don't sell your Star Wars figures just yet. And please, whatever you do, don't cry - emotions scare me.

We started here in April 2006, moving on to publish some of the most incisive, world-shaking and revolutionary writing in all of film criticism; becoming trend-setters in our own small way, coming this close to selling our souls to the great corporate devil, and actually starting to build up a reasonable daily readership. Also: gay jokes.

But, over the last few months, the content has dried up, leaving the blog with only the odd article only every few weeks, which is a particularly undignified un-death for a blog and very frustrating for those who would still click on the site every day. Perhaps, in hindsight, we were doomed from the start.

It turns out that it's a lot of work publishing a blog. It takes time, passion, dedication, a small amount of OCD and a borderline autistic personality to keep this shit up, and I'm afraid we just don't have these qualities in anything like the right amounts. We send our respect and sympathies to those who can make a success of this online malarkey and humbly leave you to it.

But, rather than just sweep the blog under the carpet and pretend it wasn't us, we thought it would be good to give The Fake Life a proper send off:

Over the next two weeks we're going to be re-publishing some of our favourite articles, giving some of our regular features one last airing, and giving out a few last thoughts, discussions and arguments on movies and popular culture in general. We hope you enjoy it, we hope you join in with any discussions that pop up on our message board, and we thank you for being a part of the life and death of the greatest movie blog in the whole of the Internet ever: The Fake Life.