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In these hard times, will we be able to have our art and eat it too?

Heckuva week at the UT monastery:
- Finished the work at Yelp, whence you can find bushels of reviews and teaspoons of value.
- Submitted a new film review for Pulse. Don’t wait to read it next Wednesday; skip the middle men and go see Starting Out in the Evening now.
- Got to do some of [...]

Life here has been quiet, but life in the real city has been in tumult. Between graduate school admissions (salute Alaska-Fairbanks and American) and pseudo-real jobs (salute Yelp and Pulse), I’ve had a lot to think and write, respectively. As those are the two primary engines of this site, I have no other [...]

This writing adventure brings a lot of frustrations. Through my first 24 years, I generally had the ease of an immediate transition from production to completion. I did my work (studying, essaying, youth planning) and saw it relatively quickly completed (tests, grades, events). I didn’t anticipate the gulf between writing and publishing.
Now, [...]

If you’ve been around me lately, you’ve probably heard my grumblings about doing assorted oddjobs for my parents. It’s really a baseless whine; I get paid for it, which is more than I can say for most of the rest of what I do (with an amazing exception being brewing).
But as I was laboring [...]