As I’ve spoken about on this blog before, it was a Thursday evening in October 2012 when I decided on a whim to start it. After years of thinking I should have one, within about an hour, I had the first post up. It was this one:

https://toddmthatcher.com/2012/10/11/my-love-of-movies/

From that evening on October 11, 2012 to today – June 28, 2015 – toddmthatcher.com has morphed into something I never could have figured from that snap decision over two and a half years ago. And now I sit here writing my 1000th blog post.

This seems like a fine occasion to take a little stock. 152 countries have looked at this blog. The top ten:

The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Indiana, the Philippines, France, Mexico, and Brazil.

The bread and butter of the blog continues to be the box office predictions for every wide domestic release that comes out. In fact, six of my top 11 most ever read posts are the box office predictions. They generate the most traffic. Here’s the top ten:

Man of Steel, Entourage, Ted 2, Oz: The Great and Powerful, After Earth, The Wolverine, Pacific Rim, Iron Man 3, Turbo, and Fifty Shades of Grey.

I am encouraged to see Entourage and Ted 2 at numbers 2 and 3. Why? Those are both very recent releases and it indicates correctly that readership for this site has been and continues to increase, for which I am extremely grateful to this blog’s readers.

My recent deviation from movies to my love of the state I’m proud to call home resulted in a post called A Love Letter to Ohio and it marks my third most read entry of all time.

https://toddmthatcher.com/2015/05/27/a-love-letter-to-ohio/

What’s the most read individual post? It remains The 007 Files: My Rankings of All 23 James Bond Movies and later this year, I’ll need to change the name of that post to 24 when Spectre is released.

https://toddmthatcher.com/2013/02/16/the-007-files-my-rankings-of-all-23-james-bond-movies/

My most read movie review? American Sniper from earlier this year:

https://toddmthatcher.com/2015/01/18/american-sniper-movie-review/

When this blog has its annual anniversaries, I will continue to delve more into the sincere appreciation I feel every day for the fact that actual eyeballs read what I write. For now I’ll just thank you and thank you again and that I cannot wait to write the next thousand.

Those appreciation posts always find a way to mention Tarantino, the writer/director who took My Love of Movies to a different level over two decades ago. So we will end for now on one of the many brilliant clips of his and I’ll be ready to write my box office predictions for next weekend’s holiday frame at Post 1001…

It’s been a fantastic blog odyssey so far.