All things come to an end … even blogs

I don’t know where else this has been announced, but this blog is approaching its end. I’ve been writing it, on and off, since 2003. “Movies & More” is one of the original (if not THE original) blogs that marked The Spokesman-Review’s entrance into Web-related journalism. And though it’s been a pain to keep up from time to time, I’ve always enjoyed writing about the one art form that I know something about: cinema.

Times change, though, and you have to change with them. That’s why I left the print side of the newspaper in 2009 and have concentrated on Web writing and editing ever since. Doing so has allowed me to do things that my former job, which had me tethered to a desk, never would have. It’s what allowed me to live, and work, for a month in Rome.

I won’t stop writing for Spokane7.com, though. Again, I’ll just transition. The plan right now is for me to join Tricia Jo Webster in co-writing a blog, which has yet to be named. We’ll be trying to write about the Spokanes that each of us knows and, in the process, revealing what we hope will be some interesting things to do.

Of course, Tricia Jo — who, by the way, is no relation — is already doing that. She has been for some time now. And, truth be told, whatever I do have to add will, on some basic level, still be movie-focused. At least that’s the plan.

I want to drive traffic both to Spokane7 and to Spokane Public Radio, where I transferred my movie reviewing (in the form both of weekly individual broadcasts and of the movie-discussion show “Movies 101”).

The change is supposed to occur on Nov. 1. I will still be in Italy then, so whether it be my old blog or this new one, I will still be writing about La Doce Vita — which, of course, is the name of Federico Fellini’s 1960 Italian classic.

See what I mean? I just can’t go very long without mentioning film.

Below : Scenes from “La Dolce Vita.”