Archive for February, 2008

An old story on Gomez

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Continuing the theme of digging up old work, this story was from October 2004, but I don’t remember which paper ran it. I think maybe it was the Omaha City Weekly.
They were a band without a country.
And now they’re a band without a label.
After winning the prestigious Mercury Prize for the best album of 1998 [...]

An old story on Lincoln’s comic book stores

Monday, February 4th, 2008

This was a story I did for an April 2006 issue of the short-lived Lincoln weekly, ‘Switch.’
Fifteen years ago, the first issue of the new X-Men series sold over six million copies.
The Comics Journal estimated that more than 9000 comic book stores were in business across the United States.Now, in spite of the success of [...]

More on Wells Fargo!

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I wrote a while back about the problems we were having with how Wells Fargo chose to use our money. Well today, we got a $10 “excess activity fee,” which meant quite simply that we were using our savings account too much. Apparently when the lady at Wells Fargo - who helped us set up [...]