The Hot Blog

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Congrats on 10 years, Poland.

Keep up the good work!

Congratulations. And I'm glad you're sticking with it.

Happy anniversary, DP. I think the Hot Button, as well as this blog, has had an extraordinary effect on my life and probably the lives of the others here. Long live the Hot Button!

Thanks and good luck in the future.

Why commit to a schedule for the Hot Button at all? Are people actually going to the Hot Button to check on a set date that something is new? I might be on the fringe, but using The Hot Blog RSS I just wait for Hot Button linked articles to come in and then read those then. I never go to The Hot Button anymore looking for new articles.

And of course congratulations on 10 years!

I am glad that you've decided how you want to use The Hot Button. When I started reading it, I was a little concerned that the blog would be the new "hot button". I miss some of the old pep and vitality, and I think that's why this is the only place I use the nickname that you gave me oh so many years ago in a question I had to the Hot Button. I'm not a frequent commenter, nor a particularly eloquent one, but I do appreciate your insights on a regular basis, DP.

Yeesh, has it been a decade? That means I've been reading it for almost that long, then.

I think rule 10 is really rule number 1, or should be.

David, congrats on the 10 years. Though I've only been contributing here for a few months, The Hot Button has been the first film site I check every morning for the past 4 years.

My old boss and a filmmaker friend of his (also a friend of yours I believe) used to always ask "what Poland thinks", "what did Poland say about my film", "that fucker Poland" etc, and that's how it all started for me.

By the way, they meant fucker in a good way. I think.

10 years ago; I remember seeing this daper black haired man rocking his chest hair and a gold chain. To think -- 10 years -- that same man has a little bit greyer hair but still rocks that chest hair and gold chain, and he's still doing this gig. Huzzah to you Heat. HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

congrats on 10 years Dave. Been reading your column since the Roughcut days, back to the Big Picture. As far as I'm concerned, things here have gotten better and better. MCN and the blog are two things I visit regularly now, and I would agree that THB has been kind of scattershot. Looking forward to an even bigger 10, and more entertaining Lunch With shows.

The bizarre thing is that I interviewed for Roughcut (in Atlanta) about 10 years ago. The interview consisted mostly of a pop culture interview, and though I was told I answered the most questions correctly in the history of the quiz, I didn't get offered the job. Andy Jones offered me a job in LA a couple years later, but I turned it down. And now I've just finished a teaching career, and am on to the next thing. And I still regret turning down the chance to work with Andy.

Man, how small decisions affect lives...

Thanks for creating and cultivating such a great site. I visit every day...often more than once!

Can't quite remember if I've been reading you for the whole ten years, might be more like 8 or 9 but, in any case, always a pleasure.

Here's to the next ten!

Congrats as well Dave on making it to the 10 year mark. I started reading your site back in the RoughCut days and think that one of the first posts I read was about Bring it On.

I am glad you addressed the place of The Hot Button in your little mini-empire. I have to admit that I do miss the regular columns and find that blogging on issues rarely gives them the space that they need for discussion. The brevity and more informal way of expressions seems to lead to an awful lot of silly arguments about semantics in the comments sections, whereby the same couple of people carry on their grudges and push away any other posters.

Gratz oh mighty Fijian Wrestler!

I've been an avid reader here for two years or more and have enjoyed every minute. Highlights: the Munich/Crash debacle, Waterbucket's Brokeback obsession, Poland's Superman Returns take, the BO slump debacle, Don Murphy's Transformers rants, Lunch with David, etc

Keep em coming.

congrats dave. my opinion on the site has changed over time, but i've always been interested in hearing your opinion and the blog continues to be a place to discuss stuff in a reasonably intellegent manner.

As one hetero Broadway lover to another: be it live or on film/tape/pixels, you are Da Man!

Congrats Dave. Ten years is a mighty long time no matter what it is you're doing. And you've stuck with it with incredibly vigour.

Congrats Dave. Been reading since the roughcut days, and was pleased to be ROTD a couple times. Here's to ten more!?

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