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 [...]

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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 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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A couple of weeks ago, Rhett Miller played a free show in Austin at Shady Grove, which is kind of a family friendly, hippie burger place that’s been in South Austin since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Which was weird, because it’s not really the sort of place you expect to see even a moderate star [...]

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I’ve got a piece up on decider.com today, an interview with Austin City Council place 1 candidate Chris Riley. It’s for a feature called ‘Debaser’, where the subject gets to plug whatever it is they’re selling – usually a CD, or a show they’re putting on, or something like that – in exchange for telling [...]

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 STAPLE! Interview: Jeffrey Brown The STAPLE! indie comics expo comes to Austin this weekend. I had a chat, as the English say, with featured guest Jeffrey Brown, he of Clumsy and Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me semi-fame. We talked about autobiographical comics and how he really [...]

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