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Last week I made my way out of the Facebook forest and decided to take a brief hiatus from the constant barrage of input, positive as well as negative, and try to clear my head a little. I’ve already pretty much abandoned Twitter for the same reasons (How do all you Twitterers have the time to be constantly Tweeting and following other people’s feeds?), but that was never a platform I felt all that comfortable with anyway. But after only a week and change I already feel the Facebook junkie’s craving, and I wonder how much longer I can hold out before I initiate another indulgence of my addiction. The pull of the sense of community that naturally develops is, for better or worse, something I miss— though I have been lurking, I miss taking part in the discussions of posts made by my family and my smartest friends,...

Amy Fisher, Pia Zadora, Joe Sarno, Public Access Television Oddities, Trick Baby, Classic Nikolodeon Game Shows, Underdog, and Low Fi Action Films Directed by Lawyers? Cinedelphia Film Festival Returns to Philadelphia April 10- 26th!It might be late March right now as I write this, but every time I step outside of the bar for a smoke, the cold air hits my face, and it's cold enough that it hurts. I can't help but wonder why I haven't hopped on a plane to get my ass out of this miserable city and tail to it Bali, Monaco, or Puerto Rico where I have friends and family living exceptionally well as broke ex pats. And it seems to me that I keep running across the same dead...

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Iceberg Slim is either a name you adore or haven’t heard of. He was a pimp in the early half of the 20th century, then went to prison, got out, raised a family, and in middle-age reinvented himself as an author. His autobiographical first novel "Pimp: The Story of My Life" became an instant underground classic and he followed it up with equally excellent and candid stories of the streets, the mafia, and conmen. He released an album (Reflections) and had his book "Trick Baby" turned into a movie. Yet, thanks to crooked publishers and literary prejudice, Slim died practically penniless. Slim’s story has been vividly brought to life in the new film Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp, featuring interviews with surviving family members, colleges and celebrity fans like Snoop Dog (or Lion), Chris Rock, and Ice T. The man holds special importance to Ice T who...