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Kate Squillace- The Ultimate Bad Girl…
There are a lot of things that go on in reality TV that you never find out about, that is until you become a reality star. Enter Kate Squillace who until a few months ago was just minding her...
Google, Censorship, and the First Lady.
The search engine Google has found itself in an extremely delicate situation this week surrounding an offensive image of Michelle Obama, and has taken a very confident and somewhat unexpected decision in how it has chosen to deal with...
The etiquette of trying to bed a younger woman.
There are many things a man can say in his cantankerous efforts to bed a much younger woman. There are always the myriad of lies he can keep up with, including whom he knows, where he lives, what he...
Freedom of Speech is Only Lip Service
If you consult any reference book, it will tell you "Freedom of speech" is the freedom to speak without censorship andor limitation. The synonymous phrase, "freedom of expression," is sometimes used to indicate not only freedom of verbal speech...
Conversations with a Hollywood Survivor.
Utter the word “Hollywood” and you’re likely to get a litany of reactions. For most people Hollywood is the mecca where dreams, movies, human entities and death defying possibilities exist. Of course utter the very same word to the...
Mike Bloomberg Ran on “Progress not Politics.” Whose Idea of Progress?
Special Guest Contribution from Clayton Patterson.
Bloomberg loves us, wants to protect us, save us. He wants to make us financially secure. At least that is what he promised when he used his enormous wealth to flip the democratic...
Precious: A portrait of a Disturbing reality. Or is it?
Who is Precious? Precious is Clareece P. Jones, a 16 year old, obese, illiterate, African American girl. She was raped by her father, abused by her mother, taught in substandard schools, and pregnant with her second child in a...
The Dating Game in NYC. Whatever happened to it?
Dating is a tenuous affair, especially in a vibrant 'everyman for himself' domain like New York City. What one learns after having spent some time in NY is that dating isn't just really a desire to connect emotionally or...
Modern Racism, The Social Stealth Bomber.
Growing up in America, many of us have been exposed to racism in one form or another, usually only from one side of the fence. Characteristics that define each culture and race often go by unappreciated or misunderstood...
Violence in Advertising and why it sells.
If one pays attention to the type of advertising that has increasingly become de rigeur in society, more and more one will notice that advertisements are becoming increasingly loaded with the insinuation of violence against men or women. From...
The Deepness in the Shallow Pleasure of Gossip Girl.
In a world that has become superficiality first and morality and good ethics second, are what we view on the television screen as a source of entertainment, the new semblance of our selves? An all too common sight we...
The Fame Game: How the Noughties Have Changed the Face of Celebrity.
As difficult as it may be to imagine, I remain confident that there was once a time when children grew up with the aspiration to be something other than ‘famous’. It seems so far-fetched that at times I have...
The Dirty business of a Hollywood writer.
The screenwriter is the lowest primordial goo of the Hollywood food chain. It's actually a hell realm reserved for karmically challenged individuals who clearly did terrible things in their past lives. Anyone attempting to become a "screen writer" in...
Legends of the Village Annual Benefit Gets Down.
The Village is one of the most celebrated neighborhoods in the city, enjoying many distinctions not least of which include its nonconformist attitude to the grid street layout and its importance in the bohemian movement. It is also widely...
Bloomberg’s a Billionaire but what about NY?
Special feature by Clayton Patterson.
This is a question I ask in my movie "Captured." NYC used to be the cultural capital of the western world. This town used to be a breeding ground for hundreds of geniuses. One of the...
