We're going to try this again. RANDOM ACTS OF AUZENNE is back online, and new posts will be added starting today.
This is starting to get old. As soon as I think I'm going to start blogging on a more consistent basis, I take a multi-month hiatus from this site. That said, I have a legitimate reason for not showing my face here over the last four months--I finally found work. The long employment journey began in August when I was hired to work at the Townsquare Media cluster in Lafayette. I started refereeing volleyball at around the same time, forcing me to drastically cut back on my umpiring schedule. Last month, KLFY called and hired me to produce their noon and weekend newscasts. I've been so tied up recently that I haven't had any time to write.
I also had to take another self-imposed exile after getting robbed at gunpoint a two months ago. That incident forced me to take a week off from 124 E. MAIN, which was something I'd never done in the three summers the program has been on the air. The self-imposed TV exile ended the next week. My exile from this blog ends today.
There is one big difference that you will see in this blog. We won't do breaking news. Now that I'm working for a TV news department, I will allow the reporters to do stories (read: I'm not giving any free scoops to the competition). I will continue to post media critiques (except for those that apply to my employer and its direct competition), political commentary, and weekly editions of RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: BLOG EDITION. Idiot of the Month nominations and awards will return in January, with the 2011 Idiot of the Year being declared in late December 2011 or early January 2012. Other random thoughts and musings will be posted here.
If you would like to be a guest columnist in this forum, let me know. Thanks for visiting, and we hope you continue to visit.
Showing posts with label Relaunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Relaunch. Show all posts
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
IPA'S RETURN FROM EXILE
Eighteen days ago, I walked out of FitzRandolph Gate as a newly-minted graduate of Princeton University. Four years of studying and struggling through an Ivy League institution had finally paid off. In a matter of hours, I would be on an airplane flying back to Louisiana with the most expensive piece of paper I would ever own. I had the world on a string, or, at least I thought I did.
Nearly three weeks later, I've discovered the string through which I held the world had been cut. The luxury of living life at my own pace and on my own terms has disappeared. I'm unemployed and broke, and it doesn't look like this situation is going to change in the immediate future (read: tomorrow or next week). I still have umpiring to fall back on, but making $20 an hour for 20 hours a week isn't going to pay a car note or the rent. For the time being, I'll be living at home and driving my mom's car around Lafayette during the day.
Although I don't have a broadcasting job yet, I will still keep my face in the media. Of course, unsuspecting news directors will be receiving my résumé and demo reel, but while I'm in job limbo, I'll be returning to the Acadiana Open Channel. AOC has a special place in my heart. It's the TV station on which I got my start in media some twelve years ago, and every summer for the last three years, it has given me an outlet to hone my on-air skill while away from the confines of WPRB-FM/Princeton. Again, it doesn't pay, but it keeps me on the air and helps me better my on-air talents. Furthermore, this blog will serve as another outlet. During the course of the coming weeks, I will post my thoughts on news, sports, pop culture, and anything else that tickles my fancy.
This blog will be a combination of the programs I've hosted over the last five years. The news and views of WPRB's THE WEEK IN REVIEW, the sports commentary of TIMEOUT, and the music musings of RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC (from which this blog's new name was taken), and a potpourri of other topics (124 E. MAIN) will be rolled into one and presented in this forum.
In honor of the relaunch of this blog, here is a clip of another famous debut. It also includes a warning that is apropos for this website.
Nearly three weeks later, I've discovered the string through which I held the world had been cut. The luxury of living life at my own pace and on my own terms has disappeared. I'm unemployed and broke, and it doesn't look like this situation is going to change in the immediate future (read: tomorrow or next week). I still have umpiring to fall back on, but making $20 an hour for 20 hours a week isn't going to pay a car note or the rent. For the time being, I'll be living at home and driving my mom's car around Lafayette during the day.
Although I don't have a broadcasting job yet, I will still keep my face in the media. Of course, unsuspecting news directors will be receiving my résumé and demo reel, but while I'm in job limbo, I'll be returning to the Acadiana Open Channel. AOC has a special place in my heart. It's the TV station on which I got my start in media some twelve years ago, and every summer for the last three years, it has given me an outlet to hone my on-air skill while away from the confines of WPRB-FM/Princeton. Again, it doesn't pay, but it keeps me on the air and helps me better my on-air talents. Furthermore, this blog will serve as another outlet. During the course of the coming weeks, I will post my thoughts on news, sports, pop culture, and anything else that tickles my fancy.
This blog will be a combination of the programs I've hosted over the last five years. The news and views of WPRB's THE WEEK IN REVIEW, the sports commentary of TIMEOUT, and the music musings of RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC (from which this blog's new name was taken), and a potpourri of other topics (124 E. MAIN) will be rolled into one and presented in this forum.
In honor of the relaunch of this blog, here is a clip of another famous debut. It also includes a warning that is apropos for this website.
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