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Today’s Gothamist Interview is with the three partners who run the company Jimmyjane. What is Jimmyjane? Well, visiting their website will give you a more complete idea, but our short description is that they’re a “Luxury sexual brand.” So if you don’t think buying your partner a ring or pendant with a personalized engraving isContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: DEC. DAY 2 – JIMMYJANE”

Busy busy busy, primarily because of a nearly vegetative state in which I found myself this weekend, especially yesterday. And lo and behold, this is Lily’s and my week to produce Gothamist Interviews. Today’s is Writer/Director Max Makowski, who’s latest film One Last Dance will premiere at Sundance next month. Max actually considers himself aContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: DEC. DAY 1 – MAX MAKOWSKI”

Richard Pryor died of a heart attack early this morning at the age of 65. Like Christopher Reeve before him, let’s remember how great he was when healthy and not the sad degenerative state he’s lived in for several years with MS. (Although I encourage everyone to forget the film the two starred in together:Continue reading “R.I.P. RICHARD”

I wasn’t sitting at my computer all that much today, and now I need to get back to finishing up the last few films by Albert Maysles, to whom I will be speaking tomorrow for a Gothamist interview to run next week. I’ve you’ve never seen the films the Maysles Brothers did documenting almost allContinue reading “THE WEEKEND IN PREVIEW: CHOICES FOR ALL AND THREE GREAT SERIES GET ROLLIN’”

This may be the wrong question for people living in New York City, but of course, I’m sure some of you don’t. And if that’s the case, wouldn’t you just love to buy a whole collection of VHS tapes on the (realtively) cheap? No, not from me. But my friend has actually put-up his entireContinue reading “IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T MADE THE SWITCH TO DVD”

I have a few specific post ideas in mind, but I can’t tackle them right now. Not that they’re so complicated or hard or will take any research or be better written than any of the other tripe on this site. But still — just not in the mood yet. Maybe later, or tomorrow. ButContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: BECAUSE I’M NOT IN THE FRAME OF MIND TO WRITE THE OTHER STUFF I’M THINKING ABOUT”

Over on Cinematical today is an interesting post titled “Screenplays you should read.” It falls under their “Cinematical Seven” category in which various writers make lists of seven … whatevers. (In this case, obviously, screenplays to read.) With the enormous number of great movies throughout history, it’s obviously quite difficult to come up with aContinue reading “OUT OF FOCUS 10: SCREENPLAY READING FOR FUN”

Last week, I wasn’t working at all. I suddenly went through that little spurt of posting because I was inspired (or something) and had the time. This week, I’m on another short temporary job today through Wednesday. Today at least, I don’t seem very busy, but I don’t know that I’ll necessarily get to aContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE I’M SORT OF WORKING EDITION”

A couple days ago in my first post about my disappointment with being unable to plug-in my laptop at Tillie’s, I mentioned an IM chat I had with a friend who was frustrated by the way certain people hog space at cafes and therefore is all in favor of ways of limiting that ability, e.g.,Continue reading “BECAUSE I CAN’T SEEM TO STOP WRITING ABOUT CAFES — A MINI MANIFESTO”

So I’m sitting here minding my own business tonight watching The Apprentice. If you’ve seen the show, you know that there’s always a scene where Trump describes the upcoming to task to all the contestants, and at this time we usually also meet a couple of representatives from whatever big-time corporation has decided to productContinue reading “WHY IT’S HARD TO HATE THE DONALD”