I have two perennial New Year’s Resolutions. One is to stop embarrassing myself on this ridiculous blog, grow up, and make something of myself. The other is to read fifty books during the calendar year. […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Magic Mike
“It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.” -Shakespeare, As […]
Will Will Zurich’s Controversial Facebook Status Decide the 2012 Presidential Election?
Geography of the outside world determines the geography of the inner. Earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy forever changed the geographies of New Jersey and New York, the twin homes of this author’s soul. Lives were […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Cloud Atlas
In the fraught relationship between film and literature, few events are rarer than a film adaptation that qualitatively surpasses its source material. Now, note the use of “literature” in the preceding sentence, as the bond […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode 4: Boo! The Halloween Spectacular with Taylor “T” Sardoni
In the fall of 2012, just a few days shy of Halloween, two handsome graduate students entered Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University. They were never seen again. Based upon the extensive NYPD […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #3: Emily Simpson
In Episode #3 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with fiction writer and bookseller Emily Simpson. Highlights include discussions on the best gift Emily ever received from a stalker at The Strand Bookstore, the Drunk […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #2: Sam Tacon
In Episode #2 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Sam Tacon of River City Extension. Highlights include tall tales of lunching with Jim James, photo-ops with Bam Margera, ruminations on Mitt Romney’s skin transplant, and Carmen […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #1: Taylor “T” Sardoni
In the inaugural BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with writer-director Taylor Sardoni. Highlights include an insider’s look into the making of The Late 90’s Seattle Supersonics, an extensive examination of the upcoming Fall TV Season, reflections on […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Master
Cliche upholds that the human mind is “an excellent servant, but a terrible master.” In The Master, his first film since 2007’s redoubtable There Will Be Blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to dramatize his and our ancient […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 