I enjoy thanks and gratitude as much as the next guy. I genuinely like it when people leave positive comments about things I upload. It is satisfying to me to see my blog's visit count steadily rise. I feel a sense of pride when I share a rare find.
But.......
Sharing is the only thing remotely new about the whole process. I've been avidly collecting boot images (moving images preferred) for about 40 years now. I used to train my parents Super 8 movie camera on the TV screen to record boot highlights (Against All Flags, At Swords Point, The Ambushers, The Plainsman, stick out in my memory). I'd ride my bike down to the PhotoMat to get the movies developed and would splice the best bits together. A few years later in high school, I was lab assistant for the photography classes and would print pictures taken from airings of The Donnie and Marie Show while the teacher was lecturing and the darkroom was vacant. The first VHS tape I ever owned was reserved for boot edits (I think the first selection was Superman II, Gus Hardin's I Pass was right behind it). Free rentals were one of the main reasons I managed a video store for most of the early 90's.
There are 2,144 trimmed files dating back to 2007(I've been doing it longer, but '07 is when I started keeping mine separate) in my "mainstream/mine" folder and about as many movies and shows I've identified as bootie that I haven't gotten around to trimming yet. I don't even want to think about the back-log of movies/shows spread out over 3 harddrives that I have yet to review(the Gossip Girl folder alone makes me shudder in dread).
The technical parts of sharing are easy and have already become second nature. I'd be surprised if it takes much longer than 5 minutes per clip to do the actual mechanical parts of uploading like making the screen caps and copy/pasting various links. I still spend WAY too long picking out that day's clips and then crafting the self-indulgent ramblings that accompany them. But I'll own that particular brand of crazy. BTW Andrea, I loved your comment about "the ramblings of the bootman" I almost adopted that as the blog's sub-head.
My point is, the collecting I do for me. The easy part, the sharing, I do for you. Keep saying thanks when the spirit moves you and tell your friends if you think they might enjoy it here. I'll try to keep my pathological sense of self-doubt in check. Oh, and I am (seeking help for my blatant abuse of parenthetical expressions).
Thanks for what you do Bruce. Our booted nation turns their lonely eyes to you. Seriously all your efforts over the years have made me feel normal about the way boots make me feel and that is life changing, to me at least.
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