Switch!
Switch has now existed for some number that’s in the teens (I think it’s 13 or 14 issues), but a lot of people still haven’t heard of it or seen it.
The Journal Star has been publishing it as a wrap, 8 pages around each week’s Ground Zero, distributed for free on Fridays at 50-something locations around downtown. The only places I’ve ever actually seen it were Bodega’s and Duggan’s, though I’ve heard it’s been available at Jimmy John’s.
Here’s where this blog entry starts being about me. Each week, since its inception, I’ve had a column in Switch. I’ve also had a few cover stories. I wish more people were seeing them. Not only would I get even more famous, but I’d feel like it was more worth it to put the effort in. It’s nice getting paid to be creative, but it’s more fun when you know you have an audience.
It’s not online. I really wish it was, obviously. I might just start posting my columns and stories here in my blog. I’ve revived some classics from the DN days, doing “Judging Books by their Covers” one week, and last week, Tessa Jeffers and I revived the reviews of the bar bathrooms of downtown Lincoln. My column from the week shown here with the visual aide was from the frontlines of superhero patrolling in Indianapolis. This week’s story was a history of the comics stores in Lincoln.
The hard part about posting the columns is that they’re kind of visually-oriented, especially with layout. I might just post them as pictures, but then they’re kind of hard to read.
This ended up becoming an in-house note for the devoted readers of the cheeksofgod.com blog. Thank you.