I Am In Legal Drama Withdrawal (And, Like, 50 Years Old, Apparently)

I never thought I’d have to say this, but there are actually not enough Law & Order reruns on cable these days.

TNT, for instance, only has one episode scheduled for tomorrow. What the fuck, man? What happened to the days where you could find an old school episode of this show at any given time? It was like video-on-demand, but free!

And now I find out that new episodes of the mothership won’t even be back until March? Dude, come on.

(Also, Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent don’t count. Because SVU blows. Really fucking hard. And CI is good, but there’s a limit to how much Vincent D’Onofrio a guy can handle, you know?)

Maybe I’ll go watch that Hipster Grifter episode again…

This indecision’s bugging me

So I’ve been planning this little post-graduation backpacking excursion to Japan for a while now (and by “planning,” I really mean hemming and hawing and growing quite attached to the couple of thousand dollars I’ve supposedly set aside for it).

It’s now time to book my flight, and I’m panicked with anxiety over whether I should risk forfeiting any possible May/June employment prospects by running off to Japan for a month.

So, since popular vote is obviously the only sensible way to decide matters of great import, I’m going to solicit the Internet’s advice (with the caveat that I am not necessarily promising I’ll adhere to it).

Also, while determining whether I should postpone what could quite literally be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the vague possibility of secure and comfortable employment (ha!), remember that I’m a journalism major (double ha!).

So, as Mick Jones (or Rivers Cuomo, apparently) would say: should I stay or should I go?

PS — This is, largely, rhetorical, but some encouragement would sure make dropping $900+ on a nonrefundable plane ticket a lot easier.

A Family Vacation In 1,300 Pictures, Pt III

Last set of family/touristy New York pictures, I swear. More »

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I’m momentarily interrupting this photography marathon to make a small, life/work-related announcement.

Sadly, my internship at Gawker’s video department and Gawker.TV came to an official end recently. But that doesn’t necessarily mean my tenure at Gawker Media is over quite yet.

That said, I’m very excited to share that beginning this month, I’ll be interning for John Cook — Gawker.com’s super-awesome investigative reporter.

John previously wrote for Radar and The Chicago Tribune before joining Gawker’s masthead early last year. Since then, his posts have consistently been some of my favorite material on the site.

Investigative reporting is, of course, the kind of journalism I’m interested in doing professionally, so I’m very excited to get some experience under the tutelage of a so-called “old school reporter,” especially one who’s made the leap from long-form print journalism to blogging and the Internet.

I will, of course, still contribute to Gawker.TV here and there, so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, I’ll be sure to share whatever cool investigative projects I’ll be helping John with over at Gawker proper.

A Family Vacation In 1,300 Pictures, Pt II

As promised, a few more photos from my family’s visit. These were (obviously) taken on the Brooklyn Bridge. More »