Here’s a thing that happened recently:
My professional life is divided into two segments – I work three days a week for a law firm in Austin running their blog, working on case summaries, and occasional other writing projects. I also have a freelance writing career that, while only about nine months old, has been lucky [...]

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Took another two weeks off from the blog without even noticing it.
It’s funny how busy life gets without you even really noticing it. Kat and I moved into a new place last week, which derailed things a bit, and I’m up in Indianapolis since last Thursday, which derailed things further. I’ve been doing my [...]

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I forgot to post it when it ran last week, but I’ve got an interview with Rhett Miller running with Paste right now.
As I mentioned before, this was one of the neater things I’ve done, writing-wise, this year, just because I’ve been such a huge fan of the guy’s work for such a long [...]

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I don’t tend to complain much about FOX News for the same reason I didn’t hate on boy bands when I was nineteen – there wasn’t any point to it, and they weren’t being made for me, so who cares what I think?
But what I do think is interesting is that, at least [...]

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So, after giving it some thought while writing that entry a couple weeks ago, I decided to contact my editors at Decider about that piece on the Counting Crows that found a version with “theme and content similar” published in the Sioux City Journal. Mostly because y’all were pretty convincing, and not doing anything made [...]

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I was a theater kid in high school, but only because no one else would have me. I grew to develop a genuine interest in it during my time there, but I wouldn’t have ever declared it a passion. Mostly it was just a place to hang out.
Once Kat and I got together, that [...]

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I’ve posted a bit about this elsewhere, but I’m still kinda stuck about what to do.
So, earlier this week, in order to attach clips to a pitch to an editor, I Googled the title of this article that I wrote for Decider back in February. The piece apparently did pretty well on the site, seeing [...]

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I ran into this post by Spike Gillespie, who I know a little bit through Austinist, earlier today. In it, she details some of the reasons why Austin Post, a new start-up media site in Austin dedicated to “citizen journalism” (yeah, those are scare quotes) is kinda crappy. The short answer is that it [...]

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