After
almost two years in college, I decided to
respond to an add in FSU's college newspaper, the FSView & Florida Flambeau,
even though I didn't really read the newspaper.
The ad, placed by one Matthew Gilmour, called for Arts
&
Entertainment writers, and I was going to nearly every concert I could
at that time, so I sent in a sample review for The Feature's Exhibit A
(great album) and was on my way.
I
haven't even begun to think about starting a database of
these
articles -- I wrote for the 'View for two years (March 2005 - April
2007) and have over a hundred things online. I may start compiling it,
but for now you can just search for my full name on the main page
(linked in the logo above) or through Google.
A Dick Dale concert review for the FSView.
They
even deleted my profile page, which used to host the
worst ever picture of me. It was really great.
*Update* A new website redesign for the FSView has rendered the following links obsolete. There's no word on whether the older articles will be housed online, and I'm not the least bit surprised at that move. But I still have clippings for the majority of articles I wrote, so there might come a day in the distant future when I scan them into files. (I'm glad now that I didn't take the time to find all the links and compile a database. I guess my articles still might be stuck in the Internet Archive somewhere.)
I guess I should post a few links to some of the articles that
I wrote,
to give you all some sort of idea of what I was doing there:
Feature: Wilco retrospective -
My swansong article, a loving tribute to Wilco.
Feature: Living legends - My
summary of legendary performers and their releases in 2006.
Column: My favorite Albums - About
the albums that I listened to obsessively.
Column: Where's all the action? -
A
tongue-in-cheek column about sex in popular
culture.
Op-Ed: Illegal immigrants
- My failed (successful?) attempt at Colbert-style satire.
Op-Ed: FSU Football - An
unpublished response I tried to run against a column by my
editor-in-chief.
Movie review: Grindhouse
- A review for Grindhouse that
was part of a themed section for the movie.
Movie review: Broken Flowers
- Wonderful movie that usually gets a love/hate response.
Album review: The 101ers
- Pre-Clash Strummer yammering on about discotheques.
Book review: Calvin and Hobbes
- An opportunity to praise my favorite comic strip of all time.
