May 2009
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PA Profundities from election night...
I’ve discovered the great paradox of being a reporter in Pennsylvania whilst awaiting municipal primary election results : It’s big, it’s fascinating and all its laws and practices (um, how many municipalities are there? What’s a twp. you ask?) are incredibly antiquated. This makes it both endlessly entertaining and endlessly frustrating — for sure as a...
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“You’re now a microcosm of the never-ending struggle between art and...”
– Dear college friend who joined the ranks of struggling ‘artists’ in L.A post-grad. Always reliable for pick-me-ups and life-applicable cliches
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A failing school for misfits or the makings of... →
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This kid may soon be Governor of PA. You heard it... →
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The author of this article told me this story in... →
April 2009
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Here in Harrisburg, my friends are kind of a big... →
“Having a conversation with you sometimes feels like playing tennis against a...”
– (redacted). So true.
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Pirates and Pennsylvanians →
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“Some time later there was a song on all the jukeboxes on the upper East Side...”
– “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion
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Bomb-ba-bomb-bomb-bomb squad →
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“There are worse things to be than assertive. One of them is complicit in the...”
– —My journalism big brother, on my new newsroom rep
On that note, does anyone else think “assertive” is code for some lame Hillary Clinton/Tracey Flick archetype?
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Monday Morning inspiration
“But if there’s anything I can promise to keep doing, it’s to go out with the empty notebooks and to try and document what’s going on in the country—and I promise to do it even as the ground shifts beneath the newspapers.” —Anne Hull, 2008 Elijah Lovejoy Convocation Address, Colby College
…I remember reading this speech in its entirety about four months ago from the...
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The one who saved his porn in a flood
I often tell the story behind this sketchy-quality video short I did in St. Louis after a neighborhood flood: The second man featured ran after me after our interview, apologizing for his porn collection he’d aired with his other posessions on his lawn. “You seem like a nice young lady, I’m sorry you had to see…some things I had out there. They were you know, my friend must have left them over...
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It is always a good day for journalism when... →
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"I watch what people read. Everywhere I go.... →
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Annoying council curmudgeons or civil servants? →