I Column As I Seeum

    Back at the end of 2004, I began writing my award-winning column (The Pun Also Rises) for the North Adams Transcript. Unfortunately, they were eventually consumed by the Berkshire Eagle, which completely wiped their online archive. The good news is that my column still appears in the Berkshire Eagle and Bennington Banner, as well as a few other Vermont papers, and those two links will bring you directly to my most recent columns until they change their search function again.

Here are four of my favorite columns from recent years:

Meanwhile, here's a large archive of some of my pre-2008 work:

(Now in reverse chronological order! )

2007 Columns         2006 Columns         2005 Columns         2004 Columns (all both of them)

    I have held a few columns in the past. Just after graduating highschool, I had a column in the Providence Journal. This, in spite of the miniscule pay, was the best job I've ever had. I wrote political poetry every Sunday for a fairly large audience, usually in Epic Limerick form. I kept that column up until around the 2000 elections, at which point it faded away. However, I still kept busy by writing a more prosaic column about college life for the Williams Record. This gave me a space where I could alternate between ranting about minutia and mocking my own misfortunes.

After graduating from college, but before starting my current long-running (and award-winning!) The Pun Also Rises column, I briefly held a column in the Berkshire Advocate called the Land of the Rising Pun. Here are a few of them that are still online at the time of my writing this - please do email me if some of these links have expired:

 
Putting all of my older columns here would be a capital idea. Unfortunately, since I was too much of a doric to flaut them here as of now, they will currently not be fluted. As Alanis Morissette would say, isn't it ionic?