How's it going, this is Joel, I used to write regularly for BushwickBK before grad school hijacked my life this past semester. I was writing to you because I know you're a good writer and you seem to be into the Beat stuff from what I remember reading and I know you write for other blogs and publications on the side, and I thought you might be interested in writing about a project one of my friends is in the process of finishing.
My friend Yony Leyser (perhaps you know him? he used to live at Dead Herring in Williamsburg before he moved back to Chicago a couple years ago) just finished a feature-length film that - from what I've seen of it - is going to be really badass. It just got accepted to premier the opening night at Slamdance; you can watch the trailer here - www.burroughsthefilm.com. You'll see in the trailer, but he really did his legwork getting interviews - David Cronenberg, Amiri Baraka, John Waters, Iggy Pop, etc.
Nothing Bushwick-related here, but I thought since you wrote for a few other publications you might be interested in having a good article thrown at you and getting ahead of the curve - I really think there's a good shot it'll get picked up at the festival and this could be a good head start on it getting modestly famous over the next few months as it goes on to other festivals.
There's a good interview of how Yony put it together here, for some background - http://www.urchicago.com/blog/interview-yony-leyser-director-documentary-a-man-within. And if you were interested in doing something I could put you in touch with him; there's definitely enough to write about on just what all he went through to get this basically unfunded project off the ground on his own.
And anyway that's the gist of it. No worries if you aren't interested or don't think you'd have an appropriate outlet for it, just thought I'd pass it along. Been enjoying your posts on BBK man, hope all's well in the wonderful (broke) world of freelancing.