01 Jun 2013
It’s My End of May What I’ve Been Up To Post
May is over. Can you believe it’s June? I spent part of the month working on a new project that is near and dear to my heart. It’s called Fandomize. It’s a blog and a podcast – the podcasting part is beating me up but I’m fighting back. Just need to get some traction and
05 May 2013
Help! I’m Having a Twitter Identity Crisis!
I’m having an identity crisis and it’s all Twitter’s fault. It starts with the concept of separating work and life. 9-5ers do it. They Tweet on behalf of the company by day and then tweet their own thoughts on their own account by night. But when you are the company – it gets tricky. My
16 Apr 2013
Monsterpalooza 2013
This past weekend, I spent a couple of days hanging with the wild and crazy folks of Monsterpalooza. The convention is dedicated to classic monsters and the people who make them. This is no ordinary horror con – Monsterpalooza celebrates the special effects teams and make-up artists who bring fantasy creatures to life. The vendors
01 Apr 2013
I Want to Be an Internet Entrepreneur. . . . Again
I have a confession to make – in the past twenty years, I’ve started around 50 blogs. One by one they faded, some faster than others and every month I think about doing it all over again. You see, I like building blogs, what I’m not crazy about is keeping them up during the slow,
09 Feb 2013
Austin Improv Brings FanFiction to Life in New Stage Show (Interview)
FanFiction writers are often maligned for creating derivative works but in reality, fanfic writers are creative, talented people who are simply using the written word to pay tribute to the shows they love. In Texas, the troupe at the Austin Improv have taken that concept to the next level with a show called Fandom: Improvised
28 Jan 2013
The 101 on Getting Things Done
You probably don’t realize how many tasks you handle in a week. Work, school, home, social obligations. Shop for a present, respond to an email, send those photos to your family, change the doctor appointment so you can go to your child’s parent-teacher conference. It’s stressful, especially when you get to the end of each
25 Jan 2013
From Fandom to Reality: How I Ended Up on the Set of My Favorite TV Show
When I was a young teen, my dream was to one day go on the set of my favorite TV show and watch them film. Yes, really. I’m that much of a TV geek. When I graduated high school, I went to acting school in New York because I figured the best way to get