After two years and much braindeath, I am leaving CBSNews.com. Starting Sept. 5 I will be an associate editor at Stuff magazine, where I will get my hands on plenty of gadgets and even more boobs. They wanted someone under 25 with blog experience who wouldn't ask for a lot of money. Ch-ching!

I just thought you should know.

So, my dream has finally come true. When my kids/grandkids get stuck doing some middle school research paper on civil rights or something, and while searching the New York Times archive they put in "Arak" on a whim, they will know that their pops/grandad once dropped a "Coming to America" mention in the paper of record ( Read more... )

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Do an Image Google Search and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results -- don't tell me the word.

4. Put this in your own blog so that I can do the same.

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Shout out to my peeps.

I wrote a video game review for the website where I work, despite knowing nothing about video games other than Mario Cart is the best game ever. However, I would like many many many people to read it:http://www.cbsnews.com/

From Monday-Friday, usually I feel nothing other than the deadness that lurks inside us all during the work week. Which made the events of 1 p.m. today all the more gut-punching. My corner of the Internerd, Tale of Two Cities, was mentioned in the New York Times on Sunday, and I just found out - you guessed it - today at 1 p.m. I called my mom ( Read more... )

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It's a special occasion, so I'm coming out of livejournal retirement for this message. Almost two years later, I miss almost nothing about Boston. Sure, I could go for Sunsent Grill and Anna's every now and then, but once all y'all moved away I had no love left for that city ( Read more... )

Everyone who's posting these lists of 5's with Tale of Two Cities included is a fucking liar. That is all.