Transformers 2

It is regrettable that I don't have the means to finance further adventures to share with you all, but that hasn't stopped me from writing altogether.

I recently saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was unbelievably awful, but I had the opportunity to review it for The Badger Herald, despite no longer being a student. You can read it here.

For any family and such who may not know, The Badger Herald is the University of Wisconsin's independent student newspaper. I've written for the ArtsEtc. section since the fall semester of 2008 and served as an Associate ArtsEtc. Editor in the spring of 2009. I mention this all by way of background information when I suddenly post a random article of mine, although I do take a certain pride in the Herald, as it seems far better journalistically, aesthetically, and in almost every way of the newspapers that my parents read, The West Bend Daily News (click for an entertainingly inaccessible website) and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It is also the largest independent student newspaper in the world, with a daily circulation of 15,000 during the academic year. Comparatively, the Journal-Sentinel has a daily circ of just under 220,000, but serves an area population of well over one million, as opposed to a single university campus.

I miss working in a newspaper office. It was everything you see in the movies — loud, fun, disheveled, and unpredictable. My desk was a card table and I had to provide my own computer, but I loved it. And as an editor my chief responsibility was to prove that every written word I came across was of insufficient quality, or at the very least formatted incorrectly, these duties capitalizing on skills of criticism that I've long since mastered. I even think what I write is garbage.