I should probably mention

I should probably mention this before my full 15 minutes of fame runs out:

It starts out with a movie review I wrote a little while back. The movie is 25th Hour, the new Spike Lee joint. Anyway, I reviewed the movie and the review got published and I promptly forgot about the whole business.

Then, one night, I was working in the living room with the TV on, as I'm apt to do, and I heard something in one of the commercials that sounded familiar... so familiar, in fact, that I pulled up my review just to check. Sure enough, what I heard on TV was a direct quote from my article.

It turns out that someone who does the marketing for 25th Hour saw my review and decided to put my quote in the commercial, right after the one from Ebert & Roeper. (They gave it two thumbs up; I said it was "Certainly one of the finest films of the year." It was.)

So that's my story. If you're watching TV and happen to see the commercial for 25th Hour, look in the bottom right corner of the screen and you might -- just might -- see my name in tiny, tiny print.