Electrolicious

I’m starting to get that twitchy employment-restelessness feeling. I’ve have several freelance gigs fall into my lap last month, which is fantastic, but not enough to pay the bills. I’ve got an on-spec assignment for the LA Weekly due next week, but need to be hustling for many more gigs if I want to make [...]

I have had many editors at Amazon. There was the first Lawn and Patio editor who hired me, a funky woman with a tremendously affected speaking voice, who liked to swear and praised me for writing at the speed of lightening. After she left, she was a replaced by a meek young woman, a recent [...]

TIP TO THE WORLD:
My name is not Ariel Meadows. My name is Ariel Meadow Stallings. Stallings plural. Meadow singular. Now, on with the show…
Click the cover of Yes! Magazine to read my piece in their “Good Work” issue. My words were part of their “Reimagining Your Life” feature. It’s a little weird that it’s all [...]

The magazine I recently resigned from had a little bit of a mess last year involving a grant that was supposed to be $20,000 but instead was $7,000. Then the mess deepened when the $7,000 was promised to a webdesigner who didn’t have a contract. The then-waist deep pool of SNAFU got even deeper when [...]

Not sure why.
Latest news on the job front: got a call from Creative Assets yesterday. I guess the woman I interviewed with (Robin) is “very excited” about me, and they’re just checking my references, and I should hear about a second interview next Wednesday. Aargh! Suspense kills me.
I’ve been listening to a lot of OutKast [...]

Money problem is hopefully on the verge of being solved: I went in for a job interview Tuesday (read about the job here) and absolutely ROCKED it. You know how you just sort of KNOW, after an interview? (watch me NOT get the job and then be like “Shit, I THOUGHT I knew. Anyway, [...]

You know, in my enjoyment of being social and having a bedmate, I always seem to forget that my nights home alone are frequently my favorites. Last night I wrote six Amazon product reviews for the Kitchen/Housewares department (one hairdryer, two irons, three Dirt Devil hand vac things), sent two invoices, haggled through more Lotus [...]

I have fallen in love with Nerve Magazine. Finally, some intelligent sex banter! Me thinks I must write something for them.
Reading the bios of the magazine’s staff was inspiring, daunting, impressive, and motivating. Of course the magazine is published in New York, like 85% of the nation’s rags, and of course most of the staff [...]