Crap, did that thing again where I forget to update this blog for a while, then let it take on some weird significance because I waited so long, and I don’t want to update until I have something meaningful to say. I won’t promise to be more consistent here, but, um – hi! How are y’all? How was Thanksgiving?

There’s been a bit of news that I suppose I ought to report (though if you follow me on twitter or google reader or wherever, you’ve probably figured it out)–anyway, I received an email from my editor at Austinist about six weeks ago asking me if I wanted to “step up my relationship” with the site. Which isn’t as sexy as it sounds – I was offered, and accepted, the position of theatre editor. Which has been an interesting, and fun, experience. I’ve come to understand more about what my editors do every day, and I care a lot about the theatre community in Austin, so I’m enjoying the expanded platform. I may even run some positive reviews at some point. I really, really want to.

I also started freelancing with AOL’s men’s-interest site Asylum.com, which has been a fucking blast. Basically, anytime now I see, hear, or read something that sounds vaguely weird or fucked up, I can call up a person involved, or a person who’s likely to know a lot about it, and then write it down and get paid. For instance: An atheist who promises that he’ll rescue your pets after you get raptured away if you pay him $130 right now? Or maybe a classics professor who can tell me about A-Rod’s centaur fetish? It’s been a whole bunch of fun, and I’ve only been at it for about two months, so I’m guessing it’ll get to be more so in the future.

Also still with the A.V. Club, doing arts and entertainment writing for the Austin edition and the same, plus a bunch of stuff about football, for the Chicago branch. And contributing a couple pieces a month to MadeLoud.com, which is a neat music site that some folks I know are operating. And working on the blog for Sumpter & Gonzalez, too. All of which is to say that I am really fucking busy, but pretty happy about it. 

So how’re you? We never talk anymore.