January 7, 2025: Become Part Of My Feature Of Habit!

One neat aspect about working at Steve Jackson Games is that it's home to a tremendous number of creative individuals – with too many ideas to be contained by just one beloved hobby. To that end, I've embarked on a personal project in my downtime: Feature of Habit.

The idea is simple: Watch a movie every day; write something about or inspired by that movie every day. Repeat. Since I make the list of movies available ahead of time, I'm hoping this will be a "film club" of sorts, with folks following along or offering their own insights into the proceedings.

My inspiration came about partly as a desire to fill some decades-long holes in my movie-viewing ignorance, and partly as a way to keep me from burning through too much of my life and psyche by doomscrolling. I've conceived of this as a year-long project (inspired by Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey from 2002), which started January 1, but December consisted of me easing into the concept with a month of holiday movies.

Longtime fans of Pyramid magazine are probably familiar with over 500 of my Random Thought Table columns between the HTML era and PDF years. And, of course, if you read the Daily Illuminator, you've encountered a lot of my musings (including . . . um . . . one where I plug writing about movies).

I invite those who want to join in the fun to check out the Patreon, which includes a number of articles to read even for free members. But bring your own popcorn; I can deliver wit and insight digitally, but not snacks.

-- Steven Marsh