FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Having sex for the first time. Let me be clear–I am no virgin. Far from it. I am more closely defined as a person recovering from love. Or a late bloomer. Or a Slutty McSlutslut. During the traditional time of sexual awakening, also known as those drunken and trampy four years in undergrad, [...]

Fiercely Anticipating -Take Shelter Congratulations American movie-going public, you survived giant transforming alien robots, ninety-minute Kevin James’ Applebee’s commercials, aliens attacking Santa Monica, a special edition re-release of The Hangover with new digital backgrounds, aliens attacking cowboys, two feature length commercials for The Avengers, aliens attacking a UK project, Harry Potter’s post-original, pre-reboot swan song, [...]

Apocalypse… Meh During Hurricane Irene’s reign of terror on the East Coast, I was visiting my sister in Camden, NJ. Surprisingly, there is a really nice part of Camden and my sister’s apartment has tremendous 12-foot windows that look across the water at Philadelphia. I’ve often sat on her couch and gazed at the City [...]

Well dear readers, it’s Sam Weitzner again. Let’s not waste much time with me delving into an esoteric reason as to why I am disgruntled with stuff. Just know it involves summer camp, mononucleosis, Transformers 3, giant spiders, not going to Comic Con, and a can of black olives. There. Now that we got that [...]

Fiercely Anticipating Please, tell me its going to happen soon – the end of the NBA Lockout. No, not football, the NFL season is firmly in place, not that I care. What I care about is basketball, specifically basketball playoffs. I love a good playoff series. However, to have a good playoff series, you must [...]

Hey Nerdsters!  I have my very first children’s book coming out this week.  It’s called Peter Nimble & His Fantastic Eyes, and it tells the story of a ten year old, blind orphan who also happens to be the greatest thief who ever lived. To celebrate, I’m running down a list of things connected to [...]

Comic-Con is over. George R. R. Martin finally released A Dance with Dragons. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part2: Welcome to the Real World” opened and reminded us all that everything you love will eventually end. Alan Rickman’s next film project is with – god forbid – Cameron Diaz. It feels as if nerds [...]

Originally published 03/18/11 In addition to being a sometimes actress and sometimes writer, I am an almost-all-the-time shopping tour guide.  Giving shopping tours is my day job.  “What’s a shopping tour?” you may ask.  Well, I work for a company called Shop Gotham that gives shopping tours of New York neighborhoods.  Tourists buy the tours [...]

Oh, Fierce and Nerdy!  How I’ve missed you.  Thanks for letting me visit you again — this missive comes to you from the west coast now, where I am fiercely anticipating the start of a new job in Los Angeles.  As a reader I tend not to delay my gratification (actually, that’s pretty much a [...]

FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The Difficulty of Crossing a Field – Long Beach Opera I’ve seen a hundred-someard operas. Some were great, some were mediocre (or became mediocre in the hands of mediocre direction and/or design), and many were awful. I left the recent Long Beach Opera production of Moscow, Cherry Town at intermission vowing to stick [...]