I'm doing this now

This is the official "launch" of Jordan's Obligatory blog. Welcome

Baby Ray Romano celebrates the birth of my blog

Old Stuff Part 8- THE EPIC VIDEO GAME JOURNALISM TRILOGY pt3

This was a prototype banner for HearMii, the second version of the first game site I wrote for. That tangent line represents the tangents we went on during podcasts. I didn't get it at first either.

Old Stuff Part 7- THE EPIC VIDEO GAME JOURNALISM TRILOGY pt2

Get Money Get Paid

I put out this video when I got paid for my games journalism for the first time

Old Stuff Part 6- THE EPIC VIDEO GAME JOURNALISM TRILOGY pt1

Oh my God I want to write about video games for a living. I need some reason to justify the time and money I spend on games but also my writing is so much better when I'm writing about something I actually care about. It's also nearly as fun as playing games themselves. I spend so much time thinking about games, the most obscure parts their history and how they relate to each other and to people. Sometimes I hate having knowledge this encyclopedic about something so trivial (I also hate how arrogant that sentence sounded) so I figure I have to do something with it, something that makes money.

Old Stuff Part 5- It's like a radio show, but on the internet

It's Valentine's day and I want to talk about how much I love podcasts.

Old Stuff Part 4- things that talk but shouldn't

There's a part of me that wants to do something creative as a career whether it's being a screenwriter, writing a comic or making a cartoon show or something. My room has a fair amount of scripts and crude drawings that seem to make less sense the deeper you go into them.

An anthropomorphic glue bottle superhero named Glueman might have seemed appropriate in second grade. We all did dumb stuff as little kids like "adopting" an acre of rainforest in Belize for $30 or making up a country called "Chinito".

A comic/book/cartoon about a talking eggplant named Piff, that's where piffman2 comes from not what you were thinking of because I didn't know about that at the time, and his misadventures were pushing it in terms of how ridiculous a middle schooler should be. In fact, that whole thing only wrapped up like two years ago

Old Stuff Part 3- Semi-Serious

So while may passion is for writing about entertainment and other stuff that doesn't matter, sometimes I have written pieces with slightly more weight.

Granted, music is entertainment, but my article for BlackBoard, Northwestern's African-American magazine, is about music and race relations. Sort of serious stuff actually.

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Old Stuff Part 2- Videos! part 2

These are the videos of mine with a more musical flair. I've had a pretty solid relationship with music over the years. Played the trumpet for a hell of long time. But as these reflect, in varying degrees of quality, I prefer creating or manipulating music rather than playing it. Enjoy!

Earthbound Midi Medley

Old Stuff Part 1- Videos! part 1

Here are a bunch of videos I've either produced or have been a part of throughout the years. I like movies and I've been a very very very amateur flash artist for about six years now. I love living in a world when even the most incompetent of children can create ghetto animation.

My youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/piffman2 with such fan favorites like my Smash Bros series, game reviews and this




amazingly accurate

New Media!

Okay, so pretty much everyone around me has been saying that one of the best things I can do if I want to become a journalist of the future, and I really do, is to start blogging. So welcome to Jordan Minor's Obligatory Blog!