I was again nominated for Best Of… in the Twitter category this year. The other nominees included @nurse_abby, @missbumptious, @unnegatron (friend and former professor Jason Read) and @SoPoHomo. I am beyond flattered, largely because I am pretty much just straight up myself on Twitter and so when I am nominated it is basically like people […]
Back in early 2012, I was on the first episode of Lanna Lee Maheux’s great podcast Lounging with Lanna Lee. Lanna has since published a podcast per week for the past 80 weeks and this week I was fortunate to be a guest on her show once again. I particularly enjoy being a guest on […]
Photo Credit: I don’t know who took this photo, but it is from when I worked at the USM Free Press in the mid-00s and was skinny enough to wear a tight-fitting polyester shirt without a hint of irony. I had the great pleasure of being invited to talk with the staff at the USM […]
Warning: Joe Ricchio language ahead. Joe Ricchio (with whom—for the uninitiated—I worked on Food Coma TV) recently wrote Pop Up Blocker, a blog post in which he illustrates the preciousness of the pop up trend in the modern food scene. The piece was pretty well received by those I am connected with in the Portland […]
Dan Bodoff of Maine Digital Press and I sat down and recorded a podcast that attempts to answer the question, “What is a Podcast?” An excerpt: I often describe podcasts as similar to radio or audio programs that is meant for your personal digital device. They got their name from having been largely iPod based […]
About a week after my 13th birthday, I accidentally set an abandoned building on fire. I can’t speak to the experiences of the two 12-year-old boys in Lewiston, who, in seemingly unrelated cases, set devastating fires to buildings that people lived in, but I can speak to my own. Two friends of mine—one just about […]
Hi there Alex! What are the best ways for post-college young adults to make friends in a new city? I moved to Portland about 3 years ago for a job. I’ve joined some clubs, tried online dating, taken a few classes, and attended just about any event that has piqued my interest since I moved […]
I am fortunate to have encountered the plenitude of people who have engaged, challenged, educated and encouraged me. I am fortunate to have been on the receiving end of a mountain of love. I am lucky to have formed relationships with those who exposed me to art, politics, and activism. Thanks to those who taught […]
Rob Gould interviewed me about my social media usage over at his Portland Press Herald Social Social blog. Rob asked about my first experiences with the Internet, which I talked a bit about there, and thought about a good deal afterward. When I was 13 I was at my uncle’s house and he was like, […]
I had coffee with Joe Ricchio for one last time in Portland before he heads off to live in Boston. We laughed a good deal about the past couple of years, and it made me think a lot about the time that he, Erin Dow, the Knack Factory gang and I went up to the […]
