Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism

It’s the holiday season, but luckily for us there’s enough judgment to go around for everybody!

Author’s note: any words in italics in this post are sarcastic. Also, if you are my mom or dad who decided to google me, or a future boss even, you might not want to read ahead. Some of my more, um, forward-thinking opinions are about to follow.

Breaking news: young people have sex! And they make the decision to do so themselves, and don’t regret it afterward, even if it means said sex will not lead to a serious relationship and/or marriage!

OMG! I’m shocked!

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I once applied for a job at Borders since talking about books is my favorite topic of conversation. I didn’t drink coffee at the time, so of course when I was hired, the Borders management put me in the café instead of on the book floor.

I’ve stayed away from discussing books on this blog (well except this one earlier time), mainly because I’ve been too busy to read them. But over the holiday weekend, I read two: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.

They could not be more wildly different, as Boomsday is a satire along the lines of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” while Persepolis is a graphic memoir about Satrapi’s life in Iran following the 1979 revolution. Guess which one was more fun?

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