Current Occupation: realtor Former Occupation: Hollywood script reader Contact Information: Jonathan Harris received his MFA from Pacific University and lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife, Jacqueline, and their two nifty kids, Mickey and Rebecca. His poetry book The …
Work? What kind of work is this work? (Richard Foreman, Catastrophic Conversations with Mr. X) There are plenty of tactful ways to say “I’m unemployed.” At the time of this writing, the unemployment rate in America is 9.8%. That’s a …
Linden Labs seeks Solution Providers. Solution Provider is the curious job of producing nothing out of something. Code becomes script which manipulates a figure rendered in a 3D vitual environment hosted on Linden Labs servers. Solution Providers use code to …
Current Occupation: English teacher, Newport High School, Newport, Oregon Former Occupation: sportswriter Contact Information: Matt Love grew up in Oregon City and is the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press (www.nestuccaspitpress.com) and author/editor of The Beaver State Trilogy and Citadel of …
Current Occupation: none provided Former Occupation: none provided Contact Information: Ileanna Portillo is a poet living and working in Riverside, California. Her work is forthcoming in Snow Monkey Literary Magazine. Her chapbook Poems was published in August. * * * …
This website looks more like an airline commercial than an au pair agency. A young blonde woman hoists a smiling baby. They’re surrounded by splashy ads for au pair testimonials, links to applications and host family forums. It’s overwhelming, actually—too …
by Luke Strahota photos by Kim Oahn Nguyen Most occupations are on display: postal carriers, baristas, construction workers, bankers, farmers, politicians, street performers, taxi drivers, lawyers, beggars, merchants … but not academics. In addition to displaying their work publicly, artists …
Current Occupation: Account Manager, Film Maker, Life Coach, Test Pilot Former Occupation: Security Guard Contact Information: Sean Davis is a Portland writer with a tendency to focus on characters that are weird, lonely and hold a skewed view of the …
Current Occupation: fighting malnutrition Former Occupations: finding the creamy goodness in every passing day Contact Information: M.F. McAuliffe is co-founder and contributing editor as the award-winning, multilingual magazine Gobshite Quarterly. She made her US debut in Damon Knight’s Clarion Awards, …
The Applicant Questionnaire for Blackwater USA is chilling. It starts out simply enough: name, languages spoken, qualifications. Then it asks which major airport is nearest to you. Then it wants to know which weapons you are qualified to use. (The …
The corporate mission statement is a tricky thing. As a rule, it cites lofty goals, high ideals, and usually the words “commitment to” and “excellence.” However, the mission statement—in this cynical age—seems to have gone by the wayside. The idea …