SENTIMENTAL GUY

By Robert Jaffe

Samantha lay in a hospital bed, a room bare of personal details, cold and disconnected from the world she’d grown to know. Lexington was far behind, and a new life was going strong in Cleveland. Ohio would be a stepping stone for the world that Sam wanted to be in, New York, past the sweeping conservative ( Read more... )

The months leading up to the release of the film, “The Dark Knight”, behind the scenes the marketing teams ran a viral campaign, for both the Joker, Harvey Dent, and eventually Batman himself. The initial advertisement for the film was a banner with the slogan, “I believe in Harvey Dent,” and the image of Aaron Eckhart in character. As the online ( Read more... )

Something about the summer time inspires serious ennui. Check your friends facebook status, chances are one in three has a message about how tired they are. I got two out of three when I got on this morning, and I figure I’d make it a nice three out of four by putting up how tired I am myself. It’s a nice way of letting everybody know something ( Read more... )

after the Tempest ( Read more... )

For movies like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Batman Begins, I deliberately lower my expectations. My heart of hearts wants these movies to achieve a level of perfection that is, well, perfectly impossible. So I go to these movies with my doubt and sometimes I’m satisfied that I wasn’t utterly ashamed to be in the theater (Indie) and sometimes I ( Read more... )

In response to the Ang Lee’s Hulk, they released The Incredible Hulk as a re-launch as opposed to a sequel. Having not seen the film yet, I still cannot imagine this was a bad idea. After the success of Batman Begins, the idea shopped around the block that you could take a superhero character and tell the story as though it had never been told ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut said in a speech, if your writing doesn’t make much sense you probably don’t think right. I’m paraphrasing here, but the sentiment rings true. I find this terribly off-putting. Sure, this comes from a guy who’d re-write paragraph after page after crumpled dead tree after what the fuck ever, but what he ended up with were books of mad ( Read more... )

When you're in love ( Read more... )

My body has gone tired. Forty hour work weeks filled with dancing singing running catches up added to late nights filled with drinking walking thrusting. Exhausted love. I could lay in bed all day today ( Read more... )

Arrived at work wearing a tee-shirt featuring the art of Robert Crumb, the morning shift awaiting my arrival. Hey guys, bad news. They smile expecting and I tell them about the article I read. The Pennsylvania house of representatives had set out to make it unacceptable for not only gay marriage but civil unions as well, denying them any rights as ( Read more... )