January 2013
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"Our Country is a Mess, but So Am I": a...
Here’s a preview of a long read on the current sociopolitical/socioeconomic situation in Greece that I’ve been working on for an embarrassingly long time. The first draft is just about complete, then comes the editing for the sake of currency. This part shouldn’t take too long because, regrettably, little has change in the time since I started writing. However, the introduction...
November 2010
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Weakerthans Wandering Tour: Seeing Winnipeg,...
Pilgrimages often take people to the most unlikely of destinations. From Mecca and Jerusalem, to the graves and birthplaces of notable public figures with a devout following, such locales would hardly be cited when most people think of vacation spots. After all, vacations are pseudonymous with leisure and the near polar flight from the hard reality of ones usual material conditions. On vacation,...
January 2010
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The Personal Journalism Manifesto
Preamble
In less than twenty years since its popular ascendancy, the Internet appears poised to supplant the newspaper as the dominant information medium throughout the developed world. This is something that, despite its technological similarities, television never came close to achieving. While it would appear that the chief advantage that the Internet has enjoyed is its ability to aggregate...
