Nightlife Editor

Sirs-

I understand that you're looking for a writer to handle features related to New York nightlife, and I'd like to be considered. I've covered a similar beat for The Onion A.V. Club, America Online, Dining Out, Club Systems International, Austin Monthly, and other outlets, and my other work has appeared in dozens of publications including National Lampoon, McSweeney's, Oui, and Jest.

I've pasted a resume and a couple of samples below; please take a look and get back to me if you'd like to discuss this further.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

Noodle-ism

Many are the pleasures to be found within the walls of Noodle-ism, not the least of which are the walls themselves, done up as they are in the kind of superbly urban sort of avant-garde kitsch that would take a professor of humanities to adequately categorize. Those whose chief concern is with the actual menu will be similarly harassed with the myriad possibilities life has to offer. Consider, for instance, the dan dan mein a noodle dish topped with peanuts, scallions, grilled shrimp, and a spicy Sichuan sauce or perhaps the three cabbage ravioli with mushroom lime butter sauce. Less utensil-intensive is the shrimp and tofu cake sandwich accompanied by miso soup. Additionally, the mochi ice cream is the most novel dessert you're ever likely to encounter, consisting as it does of a ball of ice cream surrounded by a thick layer of dough. How this might be accomplished is left to the diner's imagination. -- Barrett Brown

The Grape

Lower Greenville's premiere destination for upscale dining and wine lays claim to that particular Holy Trinity of attributes common to all truly great restaurants: decades of experience, a menu subject to weekly rewrites and the sort of practically perfect front-patio ambiance for which the French so often take credit. But despite such virtues, The Grape provides an unusually straightforward selection, opting for such no-nonsense staples of Euro-hybrid dining as pasta, pork loins, short ribs, fried crusted shrimp and mushroom soup. Not that culinary complexity is abandoned altogether; one's fish entree is likely to be subjected to the sort of treatment that humans tend to receive only at expensive, week-long spa retreats -- which is to say, covered in cantaloupe-black pepper jam and scented with arugula and prosciutto. The dessert selection tends more towards permanence than does the ever-shifting array of entrees, and thus one can usually count on the availability of chocolate banana cream pie and vanilla bean creme brulee. -- Barrett Brown

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Copywriter/ Feature Columnist/ Contributing Editor/ Book Author

With focus on political satire, policy analysis and contemporary humor.

Published Work/ Freelance Media Experience:

Texodus Media  Currently serve as copywriter and marketing consultant for Brooklyn-based production firm specializing in marketing and game development. 2008 present.

Studio 2a  Currently serve as marketing consultant for Chicago-based architectural rendering firm, handling all sales letters, marketing copy, and long-term branding strategies. 2007 present.

PoliticalBase.com  Created content and served as paid blogger for online political news start-up founded by CNET. 2007-2008.

Fox Business Channel, Yahoo, Minyanville.com  Writer on freelance creative team for animated humor series Minyanville, which aired on Fox Business Channel's Happy Hour program as well as on Yahoo Finance. 2007

The Onion A/V Club - Freelance copywriting for The Onion's features department. 2006-2008.

Sterling and Ross Publishers  Authored nonfiction book of political humor, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, released in March 2007. Book received praise from Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Rolling Stone, Skeptic, Air America Radio, Huffington Post, others.

Anglesey Interactive, Inc.  Produced online marketing collateral (web text, press releases, blogging, etc.) in support of firm's "Riight.com" integrated search engine from June 2007 to March 2008

Dining Out - Feature writing for national restaurant publication. 2006-2008

National Lampoon - Occasional contributor; past features included "Pick-Up Lines That Don't Seem to Work," "Craig's Conspiracy Corner," "A Guide to Dealing with Housecats," more. 2003 - 2006

Evote.com - Weekly columnist and feature writer for political analysis site from October 2004 to November 2005.

AOL CityGuide - Web content writer from 2000 to 2004 Researched/ created coverage of event and entertainment venues. Served as regional correspondent for Dallas, Austin, New Orleans, Houston and Little Rock markets.

Additional magazine work - Ongoing, have contributed feature articles from serious political commentary to humor pieces to fine dining overviews for outlets including business-to-business publications Pizza Today, 360, Club Systems International, Destination Dallas, D.C.-based public policy journal Toward Freedom, London-based public policy journal Free Life, humor magazine Jest, regional publications The Met, Austin Monthly, Dallas Child, Oui, literary journal Swans, dozens more.

Additional writing projects - Created both print and online marketing collateral for New York tech start-up Organic Motion, Inc. Created online marketing collateral for New York corporate training firm Illuminata Global. Researched and wrote entertainment/dining/venue content for Dallas ad agency Avacata and clients' marketing collateral, including that of luxury resort real estate firm. Have created marketing copy for Verizon via Dallas ad agency Sullivan Perkins, produced website copy for design firm NPCreate.com, provided public relations pieces for Texas energy company EBS and Dallas real estate firm Dunhill Partners.

Education:

1999 - 2003 University of Texas at Austin, College of Communications