Sneak Peek @ ShezCrafti 3.0 & Some Announcement-y Type Stuff

Sup, guys?

Updates have been a lit­tle thin the past few days, but it’s because I’ve been work­ing on a revamped ver­sion of ShezCrafti. I’ve had this same design for over 2 years now, and I feel I’m ready for a change, even if just mostly cosmetic.

Retro-tastic!

My Face­book friends have already seen this because it’s my new cover photo, but here’s a sneak peek at the direc­tion I’m going in:

(Click to make bigger-er)

I want the site to look more “me,” if that makes sense. This retro-tastic col­lage of some of my favorite things is a step in that direc­tion, and the frame­work for what I’m design­ing for the blog.

Re: “30-something going on 12.”

You might have also noticed in the past month or so that my tagline changed from, “A gamer, geek, and girl who doesn’t get out much” to what you see above. While that whole “doesn’t get out much” part is still true (you know…because I’m 31, work 2 jobs, live alone with my cat, and love Ninja Turtles–GET AT ME, FELLAS), I decided to go with some­thing just a lit­tle less pathetic-sounding that spoke more to my inner child, and why I often blog about stu­pid crap from back in the day like Sally Struthers infomer­cials and Corey Feldman’s Michael Jack­son phase . The late 80s and early 90s were the hap­pi­est, most care­free years of my child­hood, and I want to devote a lit­tle more time around here to re-capturing them. I need that right now.

RunJumpFire

Also, start­ing in March, I’m head­ing to another cas­tle as co-editor and con­trib­u­tor of a soon-to-launch gam­ing site called Run­Jump­Fire  along with my long-time Twit­ter friend & fel­low gamer, Mark Stevens of Retroblique . Basi­cally I want to tone down the amount of video game-y stuff on ShezCrafti (since you guys mostly don’t care about that any­way, accord­ing to the crick­ets that can be heard on those posts) and instead save that type of con­tent for Run­Jump­Fire. (Which, by the way, we’re still wel­com­ing new writ­ers if any­one out there wants in. Shoot me an email .) I’m not going to  totally do away with video game-related posts here, but any­thing more sub­stan­tial than just a game pre­view or quick & dirty lists ( like this one ) will end up over there.

Cult Film Club

Oh! Don’t for­get, I’m also co-hosting the Cult Film Club pod­cast now, along with Shawn Robare of Branded in the 80s and Pax­ton Hol­ley of Cav­al­cade of Awe­some . We tackle a dif­fer­ent cult film every month (like The Wraith !) and then embar­rass our­selves by pre­tend­ing to sound smart while dis­cussing it. No, wait–I’m the only one who does that. Sorry. But seri­ously, folks, it’s a fun show, and the three of us have a lot of fun doing it. SHAMELESS PLUG INCOMING: Please check out the pod­cast , Like us on Face­book , and con­sider join­ing the club ! And be sure to tell all your friends–especially if they have crappy taste in movies, just like us!

Peace Out

Well, I guess that’s about it for now. If you come to this site in the next week or so (or when­ever I get around to it) and it looks dras­ti­cally dif­fer­ent, now you’ll know why.

Play me out, Young MC.

More stuff and things!