I know. You don’t really want to read my bitching and moaning every day about how hard it’s been to do this week’s series of interviews or how ridiculously busy I am at work. I’m sure you’re waiting anxiously to read what I thought about Sin City, the one movie I’ve actually managed to see in the past month. And you know what? I want to tell you all about what I thought of it. (Short version: I liked it. A lot. But distinguish between why I enjoyed it and whether or not it’s really a great movie. Oh yeah, and also? Carla Gugino. Wow!)
But really, I don’t have time for that right now. As it is, I’ve been struggling to get these Gothamist Interviews done this week, especially since I don’t have my trusted partner in crime helping me with this month’s endeavor. Then there’s the fact that as of Noon yesterday, I was still short one interview subject. I didn’t know what to do. I thought about just leaving Anna’s interview as the featured one for two days, but I know the Gothamist bosses prefer otherwise. But these interviews take time, and as it is, I’m still working on transcribing my conversation with the two lovely women who I’m profiling for Friday.
Then, who could have guessed it, but out of the blue, a publicist came to my rescue. We had done an interview with another one of her clients, and with Lily checking out the early days of Western civilization, this publicist contacted me to see if we might ever be interested in interviewing another client of hers: Jon Bloostein is the owner of Heartland Brewery and the newly opened Spanky’s BBQ. I asked her if Jon might be able to turn around the interview in 24 hours if I could get him the questions by the end of the day, and the scramble began.
I foolishly took about an hour out of my day yesterday to brainstorm the questions. Thankfully, my friend Sean is a big beer (read: all kinds of alcohol!) drinker, so he helped get my creative juices flowing with a couple starter questions. I sent off the list with the belief that I would receive the responses by 8 PM last night. Next thing you know, it’s 11:45 PM Wednesday and no answers. Actually, this wasn’t a huge problem because I was stuck at work, once again redesigning the entry scheme for the Regal Cinemas at Tribeca. But it did mean I had to call the poor publicist at just about midnight and ask her to get on her client.
But look: everything turned out well, and what we got was an interesting chat with one of the city’s most successful restaurant owners. And most importantly, no interview holes, and I’ve only got one left. It’s just enough to make a guy really, really, REALLY thirsty. I wonder if Jon can help me out with that?
Out of Focus 