What is the Take Shelf?
There’s a moment I keep coming back to. It usually hits midway through a movie, a book, or some old sitcom rerun when I realize I’ve seen this before. Not just the scene but the feeling. As if I’m not only remembering the story but the version of myself who first watched it. What I thought was funny, what I didn’t notice, what I held onto without understanding why.
That’s where this blog comes in.
The Take Shelf is a space for those moments. For the rewatch, the reread, the rediscovery. It’s for the things that were once popular or maybe never caught on at all. It’s for revisiting what mattered, what didn’t, and what somehow stayed with us anyway. I’m not here to follow trends or write hot takes. I’ve aged out of both.
Instead, I’m writing from the strange middle ground of being an older millennial. Not relatively young, not quite old, and increasingly nostalgic for a time with fewer screens and fewer tabs open. The culture I grew up with is now referred to as retro. Some of it earns that label. Some of it doesn’t. Either way, I have thoughts.
This blog is where I put them.