Confused person tries to set up a newsletter

This newsletter is called SLUGGISH. The name was chosen after a variety of other options that were even worse.

When I began writing professionally, editors hired me to write about music, art, fashion, film, television, and food. That was fun.

I wrote about The Spice Girls, wrestling, doom metal, porn stars who abandoned their on-camera careers to go into the wholesale diamond trade, celebrity exercise videos, anime-branded energy drinks (discontinued) and Schweppe's Bitter Lemon (continuing), the woman who styled Barbra Streisand's hair for her first appearance on THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW, vegan pancakes, young actors, old actors, filmmakers both good and not-so-good (the worst of whom told me that they were "a really good director"), 3D movies from Jean-Luc Godard, and people who made zines about 1940's big band singers.

I'm a full-time film critic now, but sometimes you want to talk about a tomato-scented candle or a 45-minute-long drone symphony or the nightmare parking structure at The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles. So that's this. I have no direction yet. I plan to have no plan.

At some point in the future I will ask you to subscribe (free) and get this newsletter delivered to your inbox. I'm not there yet because I don't know what I'm doing.