Deadline Bandit! Caught! Ashamed! Repentant!

So I'm a huge deadline bandit. I'm the one. You caught me. Got the place surrounded and the gig is up. First the litany of excuses. I had painful leg cramps. I went on vacation. I went out of town multiple consecutive weekends in a row depriving me of valuable reading time. I started watching Football on Sundays instead of movies. I wasn't motivated to read books or watch movies. The excuses now ended, let's talk turkey. What's the real situation here? Why have the people been denied their precious columns. Turns out I didn't read any books in August or September. That's not to say I read nothing, cause I read part of a Laurie King Sherlock Holmes with a female partner book, and I read a good deal of Arabian Nights, but I just didn't finish everything. Even the accursed, deceptively sized poetry books have bested me, as it's hard for me to stick with a poem when it goes on for page after page after page. As for the movies side of things, turned out I only watched eight movies, some of which were due to be reviewed on September 15th and some of which aren't even overdue yet, with their review date set far into the future at that way out distant date of October 15th. I can't even believe it's October. The weather is cooling off and pretty soon I can start wearing jackets and sweaters again. But now that I've admitted the truth, I feel it will be a lot easier to write about the current set of movies and do some serious book finishing to restore my book column to it's former glory. I've literally carried two armloads of books from my library to my desk and am now surrounded by the shame of books I was enjoying, but lie unfinished for whatever reason. Maybe there's just too many of them. But there's only room for one sheriff in town. That's why they'll have to meet their maker soon enough. But for now, they'll have to accept a belated edition of the cinematic spree, which starts now.