Well, this is the end.

The past few months of posts have been awesome, and very rewarding for me personally.

When I moved out to MA, I became very reclusive. “Adult life” came sweeping in, with its long hours and “wake, work, unwind, fall asleep” routine.

David Foster Wallace had a few things to say on life and work.

Restarting Hoosiers Doing Something was an immense revival for me, and it was also a chance to unlock a potential I hadn’t realized for awhile.

And I want to thank you for your support along the way.

With the launch of Summer Teen magazine comes a new chapter: One where multiple posts are coming in, three times a week, and with a variety of content and contributors. To have multiple pipelines and new voices is incredibly exciting.

My focus is now going to this new project.

There’s not much else to say that hasn’t been mentioned here.

I know life can be boring. Life can be a drag. You wake up thinking, “Today, things are different”—then you get home after work and just want to do nothing.

But let me tell you: That one hour you spend on a project that’s been in the back of your mind will be the greatest hour of your day.

That’s what Hoosiers Doing Something has been for me, but over the course of nearly a year.

Here’s a good way to view things, via DFW:

But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars — compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

Thanks for everything.

- Erik Russell Fox

Also: In real life, I am a newspaper editor. You can check all of that stuff here.

Hi all.

Myself and a few friends have started an online zine of sorts called Summer Teen. It’s a project that’s been in the works for a little over two years after a few failed attempts in the past.

Luckily, it’s here to stay.

Words, music, film, food + drink, girls, cars and everything in between are fair game. It’s like four friends gathering at a common place to talk about the things important to them (and possibly meaningless to others).

Sound familiar?

Hey gang: I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving in Plymouth, MA next week, so there will not be a post.

-Erik

Well, it’s time.

Gather your turkey (or tofu), your pie, your beers, your football: it’s Thanksgiving season.

Indiana just so happens to have a few Turkey Day relations.

Got any special family/thanksgiving traditions? Let me know

If you’re a bum and sit around all day in your sweatpants and hoodie watching Netflix, that’s something to be thankful for!

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This makes me laugh and feel homesick at the same time. The New York Times wrote up a cool article on Terre Haute’s booming crow population.

Yes, there is a Crow Patrol and Crow Committee.

Yes, they shoot flares at the birds. They aren’t trying to hurt the birds, but rather disrupt them enough to move them into a lesser human-populated area.

Having been introduced to town government and the existence of endless committees, I found it interesting that something is actually being done, despite having a quirky mission.

So here was Ms. Sacopulos, prowling Terre Haute streets in her unmarked Caddy. In the back seat, her latest issue of Birds & Blooms magazine (“Beauty in Your Own Backyard”); in the front, her pistol, her ammo, her resolve. All that was missing was a police radio’s cackle.

How can you not be stoked on this picture?

The answer seems obvious sometimes.

Kickstarter first caught my attention last year, with the pressing of one of my favorite albums on vinyl. Kickstarter is “the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.” People have cool ideas, and others pay to see the ideas come into fruition. If the project fails to receive full funding, no money is spent by supporters.

It’s simple, “backers” typically get a piece of the completed project and there are a heck of a lot of cool Indiana-related things.

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Theresa

Sometimes you forget “why” you are “where” you are. And “who” you are, for that matter.

I admit, I did too, up until 15 minutes ago.

The path of journalism or meeting people as a career move was not something I intended.

Until I came across David Lynch’s Interview Project. It’s a 70-day road trip across America with only two goals: Find people and listen to them.

Over the course of June 2009-May 2010, I watched every single interview. And stumbling across it now, I am reminded of a few things:

My first real “journalism experience” happened in June 2009—when Interview Project first aired, by the way. I had just started working for the Ball State University Daily News. I interviewed a private investigator for a story. After the terrible, terrible interview (my first one as a “reporter”), things resulted in beers and an hour-long discussion on the Big Lebowski.

Needless to say, that would’ve made for a cooler story.

Interview Project showed me that people are not their jobs. They are simply people. Simple people. And they are “where” they are.

Interview Project takes a simple idea and does a fantastic job. And praise the lord, Indiana is shown.

Jeff

Interview Project set me on the path I am on today. This is my dream job.

Found this via BoingBoing.

This ad for the Super-Charged Auburn from the May 5, 1935 Newsweek shows a car sporting a four-yard-long hood driving at 100mph to the red-faced chagrin of someone in a merely very large car.

Learn more about the Auburn Automobile Company here!