great googly eyes

Once upon a time, a Google search on myself turned up a list of articles I'd written for various outlets. A while back, the list became a bit more sparse when the Hattiesburg American put all its archives behind a fee wall (and now you're hard pressed even to find the page where you can pay for my past writings).

There are a few quirky pages the American has kept up, which means this is one of the few remaining easily accessed and searched examples of my work. Had someone told me these articles would be the cockroaches of my career, surviving the destruction of all else, I would have put a bit more thought into them, rather than churning them out as quick as possible to fill sports' quota in an advertising section. They never tell you the important details at the time.

And the new top page on my egotistical Google search is also curious to me. It's a comment left on Ryan's old blog. Nothing against Ryan, but a page of his comments is apparently deemed more important by the Internet community than any other example of my writing. Beware the new media...