Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I ran into people talking about gutta percha three times in the last week. I’d never heard of it before.
I got invited to join the honors society at school.
I also submitted a paper about Disney’s parks and how they relate to Fisher’s Narrative Theory for presentation at SOURCE, my school’s annual conference, and it [...]

Sign up to vote for the SXSW Web Awards People’s Choice awards, especially if you want to vote for World Without Oil!

US Military Runs First Alternate Reality Game
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Several weeks ago, a tsunami devastated a small island off the southern coast of the US, and now an unexplained illness is spreading among the survivors. The joint task force formed to support the relief effort, originally focused on delivering essential services, now must contend with a [...]

Rumor Scares Some KU Students Away from Campus

A viral marketing campaign incites yet another panic. Sheesh, people. I bet they all forwarded on the email about the headlights-off-gang-initiation, too.

Campfire wins gold and bronze at the Mixx awards
The bronze in Digital Video was for the campaign I worked on - The Battle Over Promicin. You can see the case study here. (I wrote that pro-Promicin ad script, woo!)
Congratulations to Campfire Media for the wins.

In most of life, but especially on the internet, there’s a disparity between those who have been in a community for a while and the newbies. The more established members, fairly or not, tend to look down on those who are still learning the ropes. It’s easy to forget what it was like [...]

Here’s a post I wrote on the IGDA ARG mailing list in reference to someone asking about ARGs for kids:
I’m sure I’ll get shouted down by the anti-Disnites , but I’ve spent quite a bit of time pondering lately about the nature of Disney World. They treat all the characters as absolutely real, [...]

I’ve updated my resume to reflect my last two projects - working as a community liaison for World Without Oil and working as the writer (and eventually head writer) for the extended reality campaign that promoted the premiere of USA Network’s television series The 4400.
You can see my ARG resume in all its glory at [...]

Here’s a piece I wrote for The 4400 “Battle Over Promicin” campaign. I guess I have Las Vegas on the brain lately!
Casinos Go Promicin-Free

Mikki Grayson | Staff Writer
Las Vegas casinos are scrambling to deal with the effects of promicin. The city, famous for its tourism and gambling industries, has suffered a huge economic [...]

My history class brought up early feminism this week. I think I’m relatively lucky in some ways that, although I may have bumped heads from time to time with a few old coots who just don’t believe that chicks can do stuff, too, I haven’t really run into anything major career-wise. In fact, [...]