Yes, Slightly Impaired is one year old (on Sunday if you want to be completely pedantic).

In the past year we've definitely made strides towards knowing what we might want to be if we grew up. According to a quick content check, we have no less than 125 articles in our database. Personally, I think that's a pretty impressive number considering we are basically "four guys with a CMS and absolutely no idea what we're doing".

I like the feel here thus far. We have the irreverence and levity you'd expect from an independent "blog site" that has no bills to pay and who provides "filtered facts" and opinions but we manage to stay "between the ditches" of the institutionalized Internet and the chaos of "Intarweb" cesspools like Something Awful. I'm happy with our current "voice" - if it can be called such.

So where do we go from here?

I think this is as good a time as any to reassess that and I intend bring my SI colleagues together in the coming weeks to have that discussion. I have my thoughts on the subject but they're still rattling around in my head. In any event, thanks to everyone that has contributed so far or read anything here. It is much appreciated.

So 2008 is looking to be a banner year for the movie industry and movie theaters in particular.  Old favorites like Indiana Jones and Batman have audiences going to the theater in droves.  Comic book based movies like Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk show us that maybe Hollywood finally got the formula right after all.  There's even a new Star Wars movie set for release in August, albeit an animated "middle-quel" based on The Clone Wars.  The big studios have pulled out their even bigger guns (read: franchises) and the result is a resurgence of an industry that has been continuously written off in years prior.

While these recent successes all sound fine and good, I'm here to tell you that there is "No Country For Old Men."  The movie theater industry has been teetering on the breaking point for quite some time and the reasons why have not and probably will not change.  Much like video arcades before it, the appeal of actually going to the theaters to see a movie is quickly becoming something people did 20 years ago, not something that they'll do in the near term future.  A banner year of top-shelf titles will not change the inevitable... movie theaters are going the way of the dodo whether you like it or not.