My Standard Response

I’m always shocked — grateful, too, but mostly shocked — when someone reaches out with a compliment on something I’ve put together; especially so when it’s about something for which I feel like I’ve failed to put in adequate effort or focus (which, let’s be honest, covers just about any creative endeavor).

Given that baseline, you wouldn’t have a hard time finding a good “disbelief” gif to nail my reaction to Standard Resume’s request to publish my resume on their landing page for copywriter resume examples.

I am partial to this one of a topless Mer-Man action figure from Masters of the Universe:

Anyway, the honor is especially gratifying because Standard Resume is one of those companies that seems to quietly and precisely ace everything it sets out to do. Nobody likes working on resumes, but I love working on Standard Resume.

Permanent Vacation

After scribbling out a half-dozen elaborate website refreshes over the last couple months, I basically ended up rolling the top down and sticking a cocktail umbrella in the site over the course of a few hours today.

Let’s vacation on the internet.

Spring Broke

I picked the wrong year to move Long Weekend to a summer-only seasonal release schedule.

Now that we’re in the midst of a pandemic and people are streaming media at an unprecedented scale, Memorial Day weekend seems impossibly far away. So in the meantime I’m keeping the curation muscle flexing by live-streaming a set of lo-fi surf punk, garage, and psych rock music every Friday afternoon in what I’m calling the Long Weekend Spring Broke Streaming Sessions.

Listen here.