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Biographical Stuff / Sorta Resume

Publishing Highlights

Review of Thomas Frank's book One Market Under God in the January 13, 2001 National Post.

Article debunking e-lingo in December 2000 issue of National Post Business Magazine.

Cover story about urban emergencies for July 2000 issue of Toronto Life.

Weekly columnist for terminalcity.com from March 2000 until December 2000.

Regular contributor to Weekend Post.

Profiled Toronto-based Internet entrepreneur Conrad Martin in February/March 2000 issue of Saturday Night.

Former Shift and Shift.com contributor. Article about Scott Dikkers and The Onion in April 1999 issue and article about Digital Graffiti in March 2000 issue. Wrote and performed an essay about robots that aired on Episode 10 of ShiftTV (Season #1).

Humour article about a bad blind date in NY pending publication in Chatelaine.

Feature-length articles about Private Universities for the May/June 1999 issue of This Magazine and Christian straight-edge hardcore in the March/April 2000 issue. Regular This contributor.

Feature-length article about Douglas Coupland published in March 1999 issue of Borderlines.

Columnist for Marketing Magazine since Fall 1999.

Contributed to the final three issues of Ben is Dead.

Broken Pencil contributor since fall 1998. Issue #1 of 127 Days To Live was chosen as Zine of the Month in the Summer 1998 issue. 127 has also received positive reviews in Punk Planet and an article from issue #2 about the National Zine Institute was reprinted in The Zine Yearbook VI, available in independent bookstores.

Single Guy Zine, upon which A Very Lonely Planet is loosely based, received numerous positive reviews in FactSheet Five and Option. It was published from 1994 until 1997.

127 Days to Live, a zine of rants, fiction, oddities and graphic design curiosity debuts in Fall 1997. It will later be dubbed "A zine of lazy discoveries."

Work History

Staff writer at mykidsbenefit.com (MKB), a customizable e-magazine that launched on June 15 of 2000. Duties include contributing to story meetings and writing about a variety of topics relating to business, technology and popular culture. MKB ceased editorial operations on July 19, 2000 due to funding difficulties.

From November of 1996 until August 1998 I was managing editor at Adbusters magazine. Duties included editing and proofreading articles along with myriad other editorial housekeeping items. Learned to use QuarkXPress.

From July 1999 until November of 1999 I was a part-time copy editor at Eye weekly, which provided comprehensive experience with CP style.

From August 1997 until March 1999 I was a columnist for Terminal City, a Vancouver alt-weekly with a circulation of 20,000. I performed general editing duties from Fall 1998 onward.

From March 1995 until December 1997 I was a lifeguard and swimming instructor at Canada Games Pool.

Freelance Projects

I have been involved with D~code (a Toronto-based consulting firm) since the fall of 1997.

Education

BA in Psychology and History from Simon Fraser University.

Other

Moved from Vancouver to Toronto in June of 1999.

May 5, 1999. Curated art show entitled A Bargain at Twice the Price held at The Sugar Refinery.

April of 1999. Spoke at a Canadian Association of Journalists panel entitled "20-20 Vision: Bringing Them Back to Mainstream News."

December 12, 1998. Co-organized Generous Margins II, an independent book and zine fair.

Fall 1998. Began tentative and not-so-tentative steps toward freelance writing.

December 1998 until February 1999. Second draft of AVLP completed.

August until October 1998. Created first draft of A Very Lonely Planet.

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August 1, 1998. Organized and promoted Vancouver Convention 98, an independent press and zine fair held at The Sugar Refinery.

Helped organize Concrete Forest launch in Spring 1998.

December 1997. Ben Is Dead intern.

August 1997. Enter Three-Day Novel Writing Contest (held every year during Labour Day weekend). Crank out 18,000 words in three days. Do not win.

March 1995 to May 1996. Volunteer at SFU student newspaper The Peak.

Travel destinations include: LA, Montreal, South Korea, Bangkok, Tonawanda (NY), London (both England and Ontario), Alaska, Europe, Hawaii, Caribbean and Manhattan.