Insomniac Non Sequitur
Get tested for COVID-19
If you have yet to be tested for COVID-19, you should make every effort to do so. There are many test sites throughout the United States now offering tests at […]
Check out my new podcast
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything because I have been prepping my new podcast. #smileSays is now available on the following podcast platforms: Subscribe now so […]
I just didn’t feel like it
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I haven’t worked on my podcast, or posted a Song of the Day, even though I was fully intending to. I started […]
Serving The Lower East Side
Some of you may know that I have been a Team Leader for New York Cares for a while. The last couple of years I’ve been leading projects with seniors […]
Farewell, Sarah Jane – a Doctor Who short
Today marks the 9th anniversary of the passing of Elisabeth Sladen, who was best known for playing Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and various spinoffs. […]
WWE is essential. You are not.
On Made In Hong Kong
I wasn’t sure I had seen the film based on the trailer. The cast looked familiar enough and I had seen plenty of movies back then. Even though the trailer […]
It’s more like Predator than Harry Potter
Read this post at Ars Technica about the research into clothing that will trick facial recognition systems, the idea being that rather than disguise one’s face, the clothing would have […]
It’s always something
Since most of America is stuck indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was going to start working on this site some more, since I now have time on my […]
Update on What an Institution!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on the Police Academy documentary. Got an email update yesterday from the team: We finally got Steve Guttenberg on board and his […]
First Look: What An Institution! The Story of Police Academy
Hey, you got 10 minutes? That’s about how long this sizzle reel is: If the embedded video doesn’t load, click to watchWhat An Institution! The Story of Police Academy (2019) […]
Winona
Winona Ryder is back with a new movie, and in New York City two theaters are marking the occasion with events. The Quad is presenting a 16 film retrospective and […]
The Truth About Dr. Jekyll
The Quad Cinema is showing Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde as part of their Hammer Films retrospective, giving me another excuse to recycle some old material, a clip that was […]
I’ve been promising something relating to Police Academy for years. It’s much bigger than I planned
Been a while since I posted anything new, and it’ll be a while longer. If you’ve been here before you might have noticed that I’ve updated the design of the […]
Remember that time I was a puppeteer?
Ten years ago this weekend, I was the host / emcee of The New York Infringement Festival, a series of plays and one person shows held over Labor Day weekend in Greenwich Village. Someone (I forget who) had created this large puppet called Bushiva to parade around Washington Square Park. I don’t know if they had any specific performance planned, […]
A quick note to all my wrestling peeps
If you’ve been reading smile’s Wrestling Magazine at Flipboard, thanks for checking it out! I started the magazine because there’s already a lot of coverage of wrestling online but I […]
Temporal Shift
It’s been a while, the longest while since I started this blog in fact. I got an email from Google last week letting me know that the site wasn’t mobile […]
