Been meaning to update the site again, but if you’re prone to long breaks, you want to come back with something good, right? How ‘bout drama? The Internet loves drama.
Yesterday, a piece that I wrote for the Austin edition of the A.V. Club went live, garnering responses ranging from “BS” to “This article is [...]

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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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