Well, not well. But I did keep a journal, of sorts, that explains, at least in part, what it’s like. I’d hate for the journal to be shoved into a dark corner and never see the light of day, so read on:
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Joel Stein: Read this guy!
Thanks to a random night of Googling with Chris a while back, I (we) discovered a food writer at Time named Joel Stein. This is the guy I aspire to be one day: Forget about restaurant openings and specialty coffee roasters. Stein writes about horsemeat, wine in juiceboxes, and that one time he fasted for … Continue Reading
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How’d YOUR Nanowrimo go? (I’ll tell you about my trainwreck later.)
Coffee jargon, 2
I came across a coffee poster today in the course of duty that had some very interesting words on it. This goes way past “sweet, lively, spicey, silky-bodied.” Off the top of my head (I made the mistake of assuming the poster would be available online at the Specialty Coffee Association Of America‘s website, and … Continue Reading
Reviewed: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
It would be tough to dislike this book.True, it starts slowly–after the prologue, where we meet our hero Attila Ambrus as he is breaking out of Hungarian prison, we are treated to slightly less interesting fare–Attila growing up, Attila going to juvie, Attila sneaking into Hungary by hitching a train–okay, that part isn’t bad. But … Continue Reading
Tuesday’s Tools: Freelancers: find your next job here
For a while, when I was just getting started as a freelancer (which was ever so long ago) I was visiting FreelanceWritingGigs every morning trolling for leads. The jobs posted here are free to look at and are culled from tons of Web sites, many of which are either filled with junk (“write for exposure,” … Continue Reading
Build your vocabulary, stop hunger
At freerice.com, a site that started two months ago, every vocabulary word correctly defined buys 10 grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Program, which distributes food to impoverished third world people in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and so on. All you do is click–it’s free, supported by advertising beneath the vocab words. I’ll forego … Continue Reading
How not to name a product or campaign
We’re into “holiday travel season,” folks. As such, the TSA’s launched a new campaign called “SIMPLIFLY” to help people get through airport security as quickly as possible. If they had done a little research on the name before choosing it, though, they might have decided on something different: No comment necessary, I think.
Those darned crispy onion things
For all my professed cosmopolitan leanings, I’m still a Midwesterner at heart, because for me, without these, it’s not a holiday. As more proof that great journalism doesn’t have to be about taking down the mayor and changing the world, Post writer Monica Hesse takes us to the one and only French’s French Fried Onion … Continue Reading
WSJ.com to go free?
Rupert Murdoch said last week that he’d like to make the online Wall Street Journal–to which over 1 million reader subscribe–free. [AP via Wired.com] Frankly, I’d forgotten the WSJ was a pay site–’cause I never visit it. Let’s see: It costs $79 a year to access most WSJ content on WSJ.com. But as Wikipedia says, … Continue Reading