The process of ink blotting is to remove excess ink from parchment.
When roller-ball pen technology came along the process became outdated.
Today, the process doesn't exist at all with the advent of computer
technology. Nevertheless, there are many reviews that could use from
some liberal ink blotting. This column (by Kyle Gould) works to serve that similar, but
outdated, process. Oftentimes a sponge, or sand would be used to blot
the ink and errors were tantamount to ruining a work. Writing used to
be done with forethought and precision. Today anyone with a livejournal
or a blog can spit ink at the screen and call it a review. It is the
aim of this column to consider the movie and those who have reviewed it
and blot out the un-necessary thoughts and ill-advised opinions that
don't soundly expose a movie's weaknesses or reveal its strengths.
Feel free to throw some ink his way at wkkgould@hotmail.com.
