Joining Twitter squares a timeless burden—the pressure to make yourself socially popular. It’s like being at an American high school, deciding whether you’re a princess, a cheerleader, a rebel, or a jock. How will you communicate? What will you wear? …Read more…
It’s the Mercury‘s rival paper, the Willamette Week’s election event this evening, doors open at 6:30pm, the event starts at 8:00pm, when I have to be somewhere else. So my strategy is: Show up at 6:30, be “seen,” then sneak …Read more…
Reader: “Oh shit. He’s only been on this a week and he’s already writing about politics.” Well. Yesterday I had the surreal pleasure of interviewing the prospective Democratic candidates for US Senate in Oregon, for the Mercury‘s upcoming endorsement issue. …Read more…
Matt Davis is mostly a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, entrepreneur and communications professional. In the renaissance tradition he occasionally also turns his hand to sewing, acting, poetry, filmmaking and so on. But when he dies, he would like to be judged solely on the quality of the relationships he enjoyed throughout the course of his life with other people. Because he feels, in the end, that those are the only point in being alive to do anything.
