GenX Tribe: On Trauma, Growing Up, Media, & How We Interact with the World

https://twitter.com/thebradking/status/1086778465473490945 Back in January, I posted a tweet about Generation X that turned my life a little bit bonkers for about seventy-two hours. I hadn’t intended to throw a GenX family reunion, but there I was. In a little less than three days, more than six hundred thousand people interacted with it and—as you can […]

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An Open Letter to Berkeley J-school Dean Edward Wasserman Regarding the Proposed $10,250 Fee

If the tuition hike is approved, I can no longer in good conscious support the J-school. I have to ask myself: If a school takes no interest in attracting the people who come from where I have, why would I continue to give my support? More importantly, how could I justify such support as I travel and work in Appalachia?

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“What’s Next?”

Lately I’ve been asking myself a simple question: “What’s next?” I go through these moments of self reflection as I near the end of a large project. In this case, I’m in the final stages of rewriting Dungeons & Dreamers after several years of on-again/off-again work with my friend and co-author John Borland. The book is […]

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Tunisia 2.0, A Badass Kickstarter Project

In 1998, I went to the University of California’s Graduate School of Journalism. In my very first class, I met Jessie Deeter, a talented filmmaker who would also become one of my best friends. If you’ve seen Who Killed the Electric Car?, Revenge of the Electric Car, Spark: A Burning Man Story, or her work […]

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Revelation Trail

A few years ago, a former colleague of mine started working on a little movie project. Before long, he had a big movie project. And now, well, he has this: Revelation Trail: You can check out the film’s YouTube site or it Facebook page.

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