A Review Of Reviews

Crikey, banging, chiselling and sawing is hard work. It's no wonder that people took to power tools so readily. However, it feels better to do it the less noisy and more hands-on way. In fact, it almost feels artistic to get in there with a hammer and a chisel and sculpt pieces of timber into the designs that you want. It might be excessively scruffy, and wonky in places, but it still feels good. With three pieces done out of the first set of six, it seems as if this project will stretch on forever, but it should be faster from now on. Hopefully. Please send help, and a spare arm for when all the hammer work takes its ultimate revenge.

Moving on, the next few weeks will see some cover posts here at the Quirky Muffin, pre-written to cover weekend trips to the vicinities of Nottingham and Manchester. As a result, more reviews than usual can be expected, with all that implies. Oh, they're not really reviews. We don't do reviews, but chats about things recently watched, read, played or listened to. In fact, there are almost no negative reviews here at all. You see, I don't believe in doing negative reviews. It's too much of a destructive thing to do to talk about all the things wrong with things that weren't liked, and at length. As a result, the in-depth reviews here are all middling to positive, for the most part, with some exceptions. Negative opinions tend to get dumped out with other things summary posts, such as 'The Literary Reflection' series.

Wholly reviews really aren't pleasant to write or to read, or to listen in podcast form. Often, it seems as if people forgot just how much effort has been made by so many people to make even the least successful things we all try out. Even a bad movie has hundreds of people doing their best, and it's just disrespectful to trash their efforts en masse. Why not just stick a 'not recommended' sticker on the item in question and move on? There are some things to be learnt from negative criticism, if its technical and has a constructive edge, but that's not what most negative reviews do.

Hmmm. Maybe there should be a movie equivalent to 'The Literary Reflection' here at the Quirky Muffin. What would be its name? The answer to this question may require some lengthy contemplation...

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