Zeke
11-10-2015, 11:48 PM
<p>Ladies.
<p>Gentlemen.
<p>Welcome to an update <i>ten years</i> in the making.
<p>In 2003 we had a Hallowe'en event. My contribution to it was <a href="../movies/thering.php">Five-Minute <i>The Ring</i></a>, written in an effort to make myself less terrified of that brilliant film. (It didn't work, but the fiver's been popular, so I'll take it.) Two years later, we had a partial followup event, and by then <i>The Ring 2</i> had come out. I had managed to watch it (tip: turning the volume way down makes cheap scare chords less effective), and I got a few scenes into the fiver, but then dried up. I wound up doing the between-movies DVD extra, <a href="../movies/rings.php"><i>Rings</i></a>, and saving the sequel for a later date.
<p><i>Every</i> Hallowe'en since then, I've tried to finish that fiver and post it. It's become a ritual. Sometimes I watch the movie again (I don't even have to turn the volume down anymore!). Sometimes, when I get really confident, I do some silly buildup like pretending to catch the Ring Virus in newsposts. But this year was special for two reasons.
<p>One: This year is the tenth anniversary of when I started working on it.
<p>Two: <i>I finished it last year</i>.
<p>Yep. I got on a roll, but wasn't done till a month after Hallowe'en, so I decided to save it. It's been a <i>long</i> wait for me -- not to brag, but this is a really good one. And now, after due buildup (you noticed the static background, right?), here it is.
<p><b><a href="../movies/thering2.php">Five-Minute <i>The Ring 2</i></a></b>. DRINK THE TEA.
<p>(Note: Apparently some readers find the static headache-inducing, so <a href="../movies/thering2.php?s=off">here's a version without it</a>. The static on other pages is gone now. Why? <i>Because I've passed on the curse.</i>)
<p>Gentlemen.
<p>Welcome to an update <i>ten years</i> in the making.
<p>In 2003 we had a Hallowe'en event. My contribution to it was <a href="../movies/thering.php">Five-Minute <i>The Ring</i></a>, written in an effort to make myself less terrified of that brilliant film. (It didn't work, but the fiver's been popular, so I'll take it.) Two years later, we had a partial followup event, and by then <i>The Ring 2</i> had come out. I had managed to watch it (tip: turning the volume way down makes cheap scare chords less effective), and I got a few scenes into the fiver, but then dried up. I wound up doing the between-movies DVD extra, <a href="../movies/rings.php"><i>Rings</i></a>, and saving the sequel for a later date.
<p><i>Every</i> Hallowe'en since then, I've tried to finish that fiver and post it. It's become a ritual. Sometimes I watch the movie again (I don't even have to turn the volume down anymore!). Sometimes, when I get really confident, I do some silly buildup like pretending to catch the Ring Virus in newsposts. But this year was special for two reasons.
<p>One: This year is the tenth anniversary of when I started working on it.
<p>Two: <i>I finished it last year</i>.
<p>Yep. I got on a roll, but wasn't done till a month after Hallowe'en, so I decided to save it. It's been a <i>long</i> wait for me -- not to brag, but this is a really good one. And now, after due buildup (you noticed the static background, right?), here it is.
<p><b><a href="../movies/thering2.php">Five-Minute <i>The Ring 2</i></a></b>. DRINK THE TEA.
<p>(Note: Apparently some readers find the static headache-inducing, so <a href="../movies/thering2.php?s=off">here's a version without it</a>. The static on other pages is gone now. Why? <i>Because I've passed on the curse.</i>)