At 5:30 AM, you know who is truly fearless. Early birds shuffle into the guarded lobbies of fitness centers, jutting their chins and sticking their…
Marjorie Rosen recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #311. Marjorie Rosen is most recently the author of Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American…
I don’t know if the world really needed a parody of the Twilight books. Stephenie Meyer’s acolytes, as cultural observers have opined, are quite fixed…
I used to write in longhand all the time, filling up five-subject notebooks with the predictable angst of a young man in his early twenties…
A few hours ago, I learned that a notable writer wrote into The New York Post to express his disguised hatred for his ex-girlfriend. Therefore,…
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt That’s some sensible advice from my…
A few days ago, I learned that a former college friend, who had initiated contact with me, had transformed into an incoherent lunatic. My girlfriend…
The office was ensconced within a vicious slab that prioritized desperate spendthrift tendencies over comfort and efficiency. The man who rented out this thin rectangle…
The Bat Segundo Show may be on temporary hiatus (with several shows still in the backlog). But that doesn’t mean that I’m not talking with…
In 1993, I took a film class and was grouped with an amicable ragtag crew. We filmed little shorts with the Panasonic PV-535, the only…
In the mid-1990s, I made my way around various film and theater circles. My interests were mainly centered around the prospect of putting on a…
[The following article is an excerpt from my soon-to-be-published book, Eating Young Jewish Writers.] When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at…
In all the NYFF madness, I failed to note that my review of Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Darkappeared in Friday’s edition of the Chicago…
A last-minute deadline for a very fun and entirely unanticipated eleventh hour project has cropped up. This development means a break in New York Film…
[This is the fourth in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] The above video was taken from an October…
[This is the third in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] At the Life During Wartime press conference, I…
[This is the second in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] There once was a time in which I…
[This is the first in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] (This post will be updated. Review of The…
This morning, the Federal Trade Commission announced that its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials would be revised in relation to bloggers. The…
Alan Grayson: “Well, listen, I didn’t call names. What I said is true. The Republicans have even nothing resembling a plan. And when you don’t…
I spent two weeks reading close to 2,000 pages of an author’s work. I wanted to give this author the respect that his work deserved….
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