My media empire
April 24th, 2008 | by Paul |As to why my postings have become rarer than an apt idiom to describe something rare, here are the following projects that have been keeping me busy:
1. Basic classwork at grad school. This quarter is beating me down to the ground. By the way, if any of you readers happen to be from the Hong Kong area, have spinal cord injuries, work at the Fisk or Crawford coal plants or work in a business that produces paleontological supplies, drop me a line. I need all of you for various stories I’m behind on writing.
2. Still moving. Half my stuff is at my friend Nathan’s apartment, half at my new place. For an anticonsumer blogger, I sure have a lot of crap. I guess I don’t need my dresser, but I’m really sick of laying out my clothes on the floor. I miss my comic books too.
3. Expanding my media empire through a new blogging project. I am now the alternative culture blogger at The Windy Citizen, a Chicago-based news site some folks I know started up. It used to be called Methods Reporter, but no one outside of Medill really understands what that means. Here’s the blog. Here’s my profile, complete with photo of me in front of the world’s largest boot. The profile used to have a list of other of my stories that the Citizen ran. I don’t know what happened to that. And, just for grins, here’s a link to the Methods Reporter project of which I’m most proud. I did the video about the Mr. Rogers team.
4. Expanding my media empire through a podcast project with an old friend from undergrad. It’s hush-hush for now, but it’ll be awesome. It’s just hard to pull together a project between a busy grad student in Chicago and a busy surgeon in San Diego. Thank you, Skype.
5. Drinking beer. If my mom is reading, she should know that “beer” is the hip, young slang for “decaffeinated iced tea.”
6. Riding my bike. As all Chicagoans know, the winter seemed like it would never end. Then it did. I like my bike.
7. Tending my now very impressive sideburns. I shaved them off a year or two ago to try a new look. They’re back, baby!
8. Spending a lot of time writing this post to procrastinate further on finding people from the Hong Kong area, who have spinal cord injuries, who work at the Fisk or Crawford coal plants or who work in a business that produces paleontological supplies. I probably should go.
Oh, yeah. It’s supposed to be an anticonsumer blog. Umm … don’t buy stuff.