Okay…so under normal circumstances, Writer/Director would not reply to the following, but since the digs are ripe for the picking…pick we shall.

This message was sent (and received!) this morning through the Sex and Justice web site:

First the guy sitting smoking does not imprees me and the gir just shakes her head at the questions and the guy is not really smoking, I wanted to turn the trailer off after the first 10 seconds, i know you can do better, if you were to ask me if i wanted free screening tickets I would not go.

A true movie afficiando

Now…my dear friend…

First, I ask that you please notice my use of a comma after the word “first.” Second, I am sorry that the “guy sitting smoking” does not “imprees you.” You are right, also, in noting that the girl - you meant to say “girl,” correct? - shakes her head “at the questions.” Bravo for that; I see that I have accomplished at least something, insofar as you have “gotten the point” of the moving pictures. I am sorry that you wanted to turn the trailer off after ten seconds…but wonder if you did.

It doesn’t matter, though. Partly because I like the idea of the challenge, partly because you are such a true movie “affficiando,” but mostly because I know you probably won’t respond to this…I am offering you free screening tickets.

Please send an email to info@sexandjustice.com with your full name, and then consider yourself on the comp list for whatever screening you so choose to attend. And if you do end up coming, and do end up finding the film unimpressive, too full of head-shaking, and just generally disappointing, then…too damn bad for me. I will have tried…and lost.

So it goes.

Sincerely,

W.D. Talentless

I want to cover this now because it’s going to come up later fo sho. Similarly, I want to get the conversation out of the way so that I don’t have to have it again.

That’s right. Right now, as I’m typing, it’s August 25th, 2008, the site hasn’t even been launched yet, and I am largely just blogging to myself.

But maybe “Right Now,” for you, is represented by some other date…like January 28th, 2009. Maybe the site has been alive and kicking and raking in the traffic and the dough and the praise for months by now and maybe I stopped blogging already because I’m directing the new -

Okay. Yeah, I’ll chill out. The point is that from here on in, if you write or call or send a post card complaining about the smoking…I’m going to send you here and then be done with you.

Here’s the deal - there be lots of lighting up in Sex and Justice. There needs to be, because of our artistic intentions (the whole neo-noir thing). But the health public, surely, is important to us. That is why all of our actors are smoking candy cigarettes.

Kidding. I don’t know. It’s probably not even big enough of a deal to warrant all this rambling. But I have been so busy for so long that I just need an excuse to blog to myself.

Hey - don’t smoke kids. Don’t swear or do drugs or disrespect your mamas and papas. Especially don’t ever park in two parking spaces at once.

Your ride ain’t that fly.