Hey, Austin readers: anybody feel like letting a fellow blogger sleep on your floor during SXSW? (I figured I might as well ask.) I’d be happy to, um, buy you dinner several times.
Hey, Utah readers (and/or Mormon readers, and/or Olympic junkies): As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be in Salt Lake City for most of next month to write about the Winter Olympics for my employer. My job description is roughly to be the Olympics writer who doesn’t write about sports. I’ll mostly be doing features about SLC and Utah and scene stories from the events. I’ve got to come up with 20-25 stories, so consider this an open call for ideas: anything unusual or interesting about the state, the city, or the church that won’t otherwise be reported 36,312 times by the descending media horde? Muchos gracias.
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Hey Josh.
It’s your lucky day… not only am I a Utah reader, but I’m a Mormon, and I’m working the games (as a paid chauffer for French-speaking media). I could send you a few ideas, if you’d like to. Just e-mail me.
For the low-hanging fruit, though, you should check out both the LDS Church’s media kit… as well as BYU’s (a Church-owned university in Provo that is actually closing down for about a week during the Olympics to encourage student volunteerism).
LDS Church‘s OLYMPIC MEDIA KIT
BYU OLYMPIC MEDIA KIT.
Finally, if you need backgrounder from “Joe Mormon”, I’d be happy to oblige.
– sG
I knew my Utah connection would come through…thanks, and I’ll be in touch.
I think the world needs an update on the Real World’s Julie. What is she doing? Where is she going to school? What does she think about 9/11? What is she wearing to the Olympics?
I don’t think Julie is in-state.
Her Real World character was embarassing enough as it was… do we really need to relive that? I mean, Julie gave bright, articulate Mormons everywhere a really hard hill to climb.