Welcome To The Sprocket Hole

Wipe yer feet. I'm hoping this will be the start of something that will develop into a pleasant place to hang out at MyReviewer.com and chat about DVDs, movies and old telly programmes - in fact pretty much anything you like to discuss. Except sport, religion and politics. Have to draw a line somewhere.

All Sprocket Hole business will have "sprocket hole" or at least "sprocket" as a tag, so if you type either term into the find box in the top left corner you'll find what we're talking about. If you start a Sprocket Hole discussion, include the term in the tags and we can all enjoy it. Eventually I'm hoping we can turn the Sprocket Hole into a mini-site within MyReviewer.

So why Sprocket Hole? You know, those little perforations at the edge of real honest-to-God film - the stuff they made movies on before George Lucas convinced Hollywood to shoot video instead. Well, around here we'll be talking about great old movies and tv shows, the new movies that sound exciting, keeping an eye out for bargains and chatting about kit. If you're into collecting DVDs, I'm hoping this can be a second home.

I'm hoping the place can be something in-between Roobarb's and the Home Theater Forum, but considerably more laid-back. And if you don't know either of those places, you're not really going to like it here. Nerdish behaviour will be encouraged in discussions, but let's keep things light.

I contemplated calling the place The Drones Club after the club Bertie Wooster frequents in the novels of PG Wodehouse, but I thought The Sprocket Hole sounded friendlier, like a pub of the variety often found in Hammer Horror movies - usually with old George Woodbridge behind the bar doing his best "We don't loike strangers round 'ere, Zur," even when he was supposed to be a Transylvanian innkeeper. Possibly a Sprocket could be a hobbit-like creature who collects old movies and lives in a hole. That would be an accurate description of Yours Truly.

So pull up a bar stool, ask George for a pint of Creme de Cassis and let's talk b*llocks 'til the wee hours. :D