You know I’m a somewhat irregular contributor over at Gadling, right? They let me stray from my usual topic (gear) this month, and I wrote two things that might have ended up here, otherwise. One is about the Austrian School of Fantastic Realism — it’s an art thing — and how I think that stuff just looks like work by pot smoking hippies, mostly.
The other piece is about blogging.… continued…
Stupid memes. (That link tells you what the hell a meme is, if you’ve been lucky enough to avoid learning.)
Does anyone else hate them as much as I do? Then, wouldn’t you know it, some person you like and respect is all, “Hey, I totally tagged you for the meme!” When that happens to me, I go off in a corner and mutter about how I’m going to have to unfriend the oh so likeable Dan and Audrey, or that good natured Peter, and that is going to suck for me, mostly, because they have plenty of fine friends who are much less surly.… continued…
I’m not here at Nerd’s Eye View much, but know that it’s not because I’m not writing. When I can recover a bit of my time from my current day job as a content strategist/user experience flunky/technical writer/copy editor, I’m polishing travel stories for:
- Practical Travel Gear: Gear reviews, once a week.
- Gadling: I’m new there!
- The Traveler’s Way: Portlandia, oh Portlandia.
- The Sounder : Not yet published, but I’m looking forward to working with them again, they have a great editor.
Blah blah blah, don’t you hate it when people tell you how busy they are? Like you’re not, like you’re just sitting on the couch watching reruns of The Golden Girls and eating cookies. I know you’re busy, which is why I’m surprised you make any time at all to read Nerd’s Eye View. And in thanks for your loyal readership, I hope you’ll indulge me when I say that I’m busy, and that’s why you don’t see a lot of new writing around here right now.… continued…
It wasn’t particularly horrible, not superlatively awesome, but, well, it was okay. I didn’t do much by way of getting stories published, though I did get some nice rejections. I was hired to run a blog and then, when it turned out the company hadn’t budgeted for real pay for writers, things went south, very quickly. All the writers did get paid, I’m proud of that, and I feel good about standing my ground on the way I’d want work with bloggers when at the helm.… continued…
