A plaque was recently erected in front of Roger Ebert’s childhood home, and to further commemorate the occasion, the critic has put together a gallery of other film critic’s childhood homes. The house where I lived from ages 6-17 (and again for 6 months of post-college unemployment, a period marked by a lot of Real World/Road Rules Challenge watching and a desperate attempt to get a job as a PA at the E! network) is represented in the gallery, as are images of the domestic sites that spawned critics like Carrie Rickey, Joe Leydon, Mick LaSalle and more. My dad still lives in the house depicted, so when film criticism becomes fully extinct and I’m forced to move back home, my photo can be painlessly repurposed for a gallery of Current Squats of Destitute Former Film Critics.