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I wouldn't dispute that. They pay rather well, expect a lot and have very tight deadlines. I also have a history with them, so I can't confirm they pay all their freelancers the exact same rates.

The paper I do most of my freelancing for pays $100 for preps football/basketball/baseball gamers, $150 for preps blogs, $200 for NFL/college gamers, $150 for NFL/college sidebars, $300 for longer features. This is a major metro with 300K+ circulation. That'll give you one scale, but that does...

Miss most: Just the feel of being in a newsroom every day. God, I loved (still love) that. Every time I walk in to one, even if I don't work there, it feels like "home," if that makes any sense. Just feels like I belong there. I never get that same feeling as a bit of a corporate drone in a...

Good stuff, Fly. New Glarus is one of the great, little-known breweries in the country. Small distribution, and they're damn good across the board. Depending upon where you are in the midwest, another small one most don't know about is Flossmoor Station, in northern Illinois. Such a great little...

Yeah, Hopzilla's really good. Tried it alongside the new Sierra Nevada Hoptimum the other night, and I'll definitely take Hopzilla.

For what it's worth, in 2008 at a Gannett paper with not even half that circulation, I started at $35K as a sports writer. So more than that would seem entirely reasonable to me.

In our state, our distribution keeps expanding, which is always welcome. We just started getting Blue Point out of Long Island, along with 8 Wired and Clown Shoes, with Green Flash, Boulevard and Goose Island on the way later this year. I've had some things from all of them, but definitely...

As a former Gannett employee, I can confirm this is standard procedure unless someone else is on furlough, when you're expected to work an extra 25 hours.

It was tough to get. The only reason I got my hands on even one bottle was because I'm a regular at the beer store 2 minutes down the road, so the owner said he'd hold one for me as long as I could pick it up on the release day. That seemed fair to me. Of course, I've already had it on draft...

I've got both in my fridge right now. In fact, I've got a couple of 2010 KBS, some 2011 and a bottle of CBS. That'd be quite a triple vertical. I could still grab some regular Breakfast Stout too and make it into a four-way, but I might die.

I was offered a job there a few years back, bigbad. Turned it down not in small part because I didn't want to get sucked into the Morris blackhole. I think that ended up being a good call.

Yes, the KBS is phenomenal. You won't be getting your hands on the CBS, of course, unless you find a bar that has it on tap ... provided they continue not bottling it. There is some talk that they may begin bottling and having a limited distribution within the next year or two, but we'll see...

LOVED the ending to "No Country." One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years, no question. It's not really about "Where's the rest of it?" I don't think. It's over. That's it. That is the rest of it. You don't necessarily have to get it. The open-ended nature of it is part of it. Not...

Yes. As many have already confirmed, the AJC's deadlines are tight, tighter and tightest. And they're only getting more restrictive about it. Going quoteless in print and doing a write-thru with quotes for online is pretty common for late games when they do want full coverage. They basically...

This is a common misconception. There are degrees of atheism. You're basically right about agnosticism. But the flip side of agnosticism is gnosticism, not atheism. Gnosticism is taking a conclusive stance against the existence of gods. There are gnostic atheists, who say they have knowledge...