Two things:

— You know how they say Lake Tahoe is a nice place? Those people are correct.

— Remember when I said I had good news I couldn’t share? Well, the embargo is over: I won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.

That means I get to spend the next year thinking deep thoughts among the Cantabs up in Cambridge. It also allegedly means that I am a “working journalist of accomplishment and promise,” although I have been unable to find a second source willing to go on the record supporting that claim. I plan to spend the next two months slowly getting my cold weather gear out of storage.

How does this affect you, Dear Reader? This here site will continue, perhaps even enlivened with what the money people call additional “content.” For Dallasites, there will be at least one (and perhaps 15) going-away parties before my departure in August. And for those of you on Eastern Daylight Time, there will be a new edition of the famed crabwalk.com Northern Tier Listening Tour, as my trusty Mazda makes its journey up I-95 to Boston. (Previous installments occurred in 2002 and 2004.)

In other words: Yay!

(Blog reaction here, here, and here.)

23 May 2007



Comments

23 May | 11:38  |  sparkler

I'm so incredibly proud of you! Congratulations on a well earned fellowship.

23 May | 11:40  |  sparkler

First commenter and congratulator. I WIN!

23 May | 14:51  |  keith

A fellow AMC fan boy will be happy to attend a show or two with you while you're up here - drop a line!

23 May | 15:17  |  kitty

Awesome! Congrats!

23 May | 16:02  |  Matt M.

Congratulations! Do you get to take your billboard with you?

23 May | 21:09  |  Tam

CONGRATS!!!! I left Ohio and made it to New Hamster - we're about 45 minutes north of Boston. Would love to get together and hang out some night after work when you get here.

23 May | 21:21  |  M-D

Congrats, Josh! when you get to NJ and get lost trying to figure out what the hell happened to I-95, give me a call!

24 May | 0:59  |  karen

oh wow - Congrats! I'll look forward to hearing about your new exploits. :)

25 May | 12:58  |  jessica

CONGRATS! I am very proud of you and not surprised one bit. You rawk!

27 May | 13:04  |  Leah

Is it too early to reserve a space on your sofa? Yay! And cheers to you from Denmark; I'll eat some candy for you!

29 May | 11:13  |  James

Hey, congratulations! Maybe since you'll be a little closer to Canada, we'll see each other a bit more! Or you've given me an excuse to visit Boston (uh, Cambridge) again.



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