If I’m nice to be around, I’m sure it’s because I get more rest than most folks. I have enormous respect for sleep. I consciously avoid certain behaviors that will trip it up or mess with its mystery. I don’t, for example, blow cigarette smoke at it or push it away with too much alcohol and […]
Rubin Naiman in conversation
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
Free falling
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
You snooze, you lose
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
Since when did sleep become the enemy? Was it when Martha Stewart gloated that she only needed three or four hours of it every night? Is that when the rest of us (this writer excluded) began pasting determined smiles over our exhausted bodies, when Martha taught us that less sleep = more corporate success? And […]
Camp VJ: day two
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
Fast times at Newsy High
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
Laptop: check iPhone: check Flipcam: check USB cables: check Audio recorder: check Pen and notebook: check, check Snack: check Bevvy: check, check Brain: CHECK! I’m off to the Toronto Star today for a three-day workshop for journalists on how to create digital content . If you wanna be a reporter and blogger today, you better […]
But I was joking!
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
To everyone who thought “AGJ” was Application No. 100,001 from Apple, then tried to buy it from the iPhone App Store, my tin cup thanks you! It was a joke, dear readers! Look closer at the image (below) and you’ll see I used glue and scissors to create my mock-up. The ink-soaked paper, coughed out by my […]
Newsflash: here’s my App!
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
In conversation with Maureen Judge
Originally published in May 2010 in Blog
In a display of human nature at its worst, I once worked with a fashionista who sneered, “Old ladies smell like sour milk.” Wow, I thought, if women can be this disdainful of their mother’s generation, we’ve got a problem. Judging by popular culture, society as a whole finds post-fertile women not worth looking at […]
