I can understand — sort of — when studios bombard me every December with what are essentially glossy picture books of Academy Award contenders. They feature stills and factoids about the films they're touting; inevitably, I shake the envelope in vain to dump out the surely enclosed screener and think, "That's it? That's what FedEx [...]

City Paper's new-found promotional intensity does not end with hats. Last week, we got magnets.
They're nice, but they made me kinda nervous because I didn't edit any of the stories featured. What do the marketing people know that I don't? I worried.
Today I'm feeling more sanguine about my prospects for continued employment, because: [...]