Adventures of a Freelance Murray Slaughter - so i've been nervous about announcing this...

just because well...the last time I had a really marvellous, wonderful type job offer, it was the one in London, England, that they reneged on 48 hours before I was supposed to fly off to England.

The one has nothing to do with the other, except, well, in my head. But you all know how things in your head can solidify into permanent responses.

Anyways, that's irrelevant, because now that I've actually done work for them (a press release), I feel confident in telling all of you that....I am now an employee of Looney Labs, the company which has brought you Fluxx, Chrononauts, Nanofictionary, Cosmic Coasters, Q-turn, and yes, Scott, Icehouse (we'll talk).

My position has been titled 'Publicity Specialist', and I'll be doing a lot of the carpentry to the publicity architecture; executive decisions will be made about who and how to contact people, and then I'll be going and doing the actual contacting and following and nagging and getting articles published and collected and on the web so the site will show people how fabulous Looney Labs are, and more of that nature. It's a fabulous chance to learn about the flackery side (heh) of the media business before going into the hard hitting journalism side (one hopes). It's also the first chance I've had, so far, to get *paid* to (occasionally) write - doing the press release yesterday morning was actually a lot of fun, sitting down and writing according to all those things I did learn studying journalism, but combining them with my copywriting/marketing skills was actually a very enjoyable challenge.

In the meantime, the Looneys. have sent me a copy of the not-yet-but-soon-to be-released EcoFluxx, and I will hopefully have it in my hands by the end of the week (but you can never tell, with the cross-border stuff). So let's give it a week for safety, and who would like to get together, probably next Tuesday, at the Wheat Sheaf (King and Bathurst), to help me get a grasp on this brand new Fluxx variant, before I have to shill it to the waiting public? ;-)

...and thanks, Kristin, for this great opportunity. It means a lot to me.