Others maybe, but you … you’re still my favorite.
Sadly, you may have noticed that my posts have become fewer and further between over the past week or two. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I now realize that the coming two weeks are going to be even more blog unfriendly to me than the past two. I’m sure by now you may have been able to guess where my “new job” is. I haven’t really been keeping it such a closely guarded secret, and said large lower-Manhattan film-oriented event starts in just four days.
(Inhale … exhale … inhale … exhale … breathe … breathe … stay calm … good thoughts … ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Damn me for quitting smoking nearly a decade ago! Damn me for being old enough to have quit smoking nearly a decade ago!)
Anyway, each day closer to this Saturday keeps me at work later and later, and next week during the actual event, I won’t really be coming home or sitting at a computer much at all. (THE HORROR!) So if you see me go days, even a week without posting anything, please don’t fret. I’ll be back. Or actually … fret a little. It’s nice to be missed.
In the mean time, if you’re in New York, come on down to that triangle (or trapazoid if you’re such a geometry freak) below Canal and check out the three f-s … the films, the fun and the festivities. There’s really a lot going on, and there are a ton of staff and volunteers working really hard, nearly around-the-clock, to turn this edition into the best one yet.
Check-out the Tribeca Drive-In at Pier 25 (no cars required … or allowed!); a great selection of panels; the exciting family fest; and of course, films, films and more films.
And just so you don’t feel like it’s only you, my loyal reader, being neglected, there are two events this week alone I was excited to go to but realized there was no chance I would be able to make. First is the second installment of the Ritalin Reading Series tonight (yes, I mean Tuesday), featuring not only its creator Lindsay Lindsayism, but also one of my favorite bloggers, even if I always feel inadequate after reading posts,Maud Newton.
And second is one of the worst-kept secrets in the NY film community, unless you know about it: one of The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Young Friends of Film events which comprise a screening of an old New York Film Festival or New Directors/New Films selection, a lecture and/or Q&A and a nice little cocktail party. This Thursday, they’re showing the 1990 NYFF selection, director Michael Verhoeven’s The Nasty Girl. If you’ve never been to one of these events, or if you’ve never been to the Walter Reade Theater, you should consider checking it out.
In the mean time … I’ll see you soon. It may be irregularly and infrequently, but I’ll be around, so I hope you will be too.
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