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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It’s official: The New York Times has decreed my Christmas list again.

Except: gasp! I actually already read one and own another one of the Top 10 Books of 2008! That never happens!

In fact, I thought I was still slogging my way through last year’s list. Out of ten selections, in the entire year since it came out, I have read Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris and Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. I do own Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, who made this year’s list as well. Either I got them both for Christmas or I bought them with a gift card to Barnes & Noble, I can’t remember.

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