First Post!: On Critics and Charmeleon

For all the pertinent details about the critics, what we critique, what our credentials are, etcetera, we direct you to the sidebar.

Everyone's a critic. Literally. Anyone who has taken their friend aside and (for the purposes of this blog, we'll assume said friend is female) told her that a movie "was soooooo awesome" or that a restaurant "wasn't that good" was essentially giving a review, albeit a highly simplified one. Giving a review of something isn't rocket science, unless you happen to be giving a review about a new brand of rocket fuel, or something.

That being said, there are critics...and there are critics. There is your average guy or girl on the street who is content to restrict his or her (the inconveniences of being politically correct!) opinion to "good," "bad," "awesome," or "UGH," and there are people like the ones you see in the newspapers and magazines, giving highly-detailed (and sometimes highly entertaining) reasons about why a movie was "soooooo awesome" and how a restaurant "wasn't that good." If critics were Pokemon, the average guy on the street would be a Charmander, and the magazine critics would be Charizard.

We're somewhere in the middle. We'd be Charmeleon.

Lying somewhere between the casual opinion of that average Jane (or Joe) and the highly-zealous scrutinizing of the magazine critics are our opinions. We don't pretend to be experts...we're more of obsessive amateurs, and, with all the zeal of that obsession, we'll try to crank out coherent reviews on things we think deserve reviewing. We can promise you that ninety percent of the time, we'll be coherent.

Not convinced? Stay tuned for our first review.

- NC Nolasco