Have I forsaken you?
No, but I have news. It appears the wheel of fortune may have finally spun my fate from its recent nadir [jobless in Spokane, WA, getting grad school rejection letters via EMAIL {for God's sake!}] to somewhere approaching [relative] favor.
Cogs are turning at a certain inland northwest paper such that I have been informally asked to come in and talk about a staff writer position, which also seems to double as a semi-official editorship.
Glad tidings.
On the other side of various coins, I haven't been blogging, and for that I'm sorry, but I wrote 6 articles last week, so I haven't stopped writing.
Also, if you're in the sandpoint area, pick up this week's Reader, it has my usual nonsense, but it also has a fairly scathing attack on the censorship proclivities of a certain junior senator from New York, care of our good friend Ben. Though I don't often share his conservo-libertarian views, his points are always well articulated.
And this time, his analysis is right.
posted by Luke @ 12:34 PM
10 comments
10 Comments:
What the motherfu-
I mean, the comment, above mine, which you will have probably deleted by the time anyone reads my own comment... so....
Hi Luke. All the news sounds very cool. I hope this pseudoeditorship isn't as taxing on your blogging schedule as the Readercontributorship has been. Those of us not in the Spokanish realm are, well, waiting for more Luke content. Hope all is well.
As much as i'm against any kind of censorship, FUCK YOU Mr. or Mrs. Health Care douchebag. i want you banned from human memory.
Luke, i'm going to refrain from the jocular arm pumping and barking that would usually result from your news simply because i don't want to jinx you. Normally i wouldn't worry about such hokum, but in the world of writing gigs a person gets by as much by luck as by writing talent. Unfortunately. If anything in the world was fair you'd be a shoe-in for the job with your writing talent alone, but i don't want to fuck up the luck thing either.
In addition to the six articles Luke also stepped in as editor to make my Sandpoint Reader article presentable. That was a fair bit of work on top of his paying and non-paying gigs. The dude is swamped.
-ben
Don and Ben,
I appreciate your words, and yelling at the comment spammer so I don'thave to--a completely futile effort because it was obviously a mass-spam, but your hearts were in the right place.
Ben,
They used your real name [new policy after they got tired of the guy who requires them to put his name as "Jules!"]. Good news is, if your dad doesn't hear about it by Wednesday, he never will.
Well, I'll chime in -- though I have already chimed in, indeed, have been responsible for your success -- and say good damn job on your pseudo-editoriship.
On behalf of the Sandpoint Reader, that illustrious King Maker of the Inland Northwest's writing community, I commend you on your talents and victories.
I will have you know, that it will be your responsibility someday to give me employment -- or at least help me pad my resume.
Cheers!
(As always, your check's in the mail).
Hell yeah! Good deal Luke...I can't wait to see you out there more.. you deserve it!
Congratulations, Luke!
I'm just as pleased to hear about your new job, as I am that you haven't given up on blogging. This has been my favorite blog to check up on for some time, and I was worried you'd found something so productive to do that you wouldn't be returning.
Hey, Luke, Heyyyyyyyyy. I know you have red carpet appearances to make in the world of journalisma, and hands to shake and quills to ink and so on and so forth, but you must understand that the beast your blog has borne must be sated. Write something. A "hello" for [G/g]od('s)/(s') sake. Throw us a frikkin bone herrrre. You'd think we check your blog on a daily basis for FREE or something.
Heh.
:-)
Luke,
What is this? What is blogger? What is blog? Why is Mike calling himself Don? I just wanted to email you and all I got was this blog shit when I Googled your name. I have no idea if this will be able to read this. Probably not. Failed again. F.
Sandusky!
I WOULD be able to communicate with you if you left your email address.
I hear you have a house now, and that you're remodelling it . . . by yourself. Bet that's a clusterfuck.
Anyway, my email address, and this is very difficult:
lukebaumgarten *at* gmail *dot* com
Now you'll never fail again.
Hey, Brian,
It turns out that I don't, in fact, call myself Don. That's my cousin (long story). I have a website too. You can find it at http://coneofignorance.dyndns.org.
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