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  • Sortie America: 3000 miles. $450 dollars. 3 major Canadian cities. Gas in litres.  Beautiful women. Scuzzy motels. Thousands of “Tim Hortons”. One parking ticket, entirely in French.  Perhaps the last of my great wandering road trips. Written in 2003, for friends.
Reprints of essays, more: www.cautionchildren.blogspot.com
  • Scores of material written as Op/Ed editor and all-around writer for the Leader at UWM 2004-06 (includes "Life Cycle of Cool", Profile of Scott Johnson from Fuel Cafe, "It Came from the UWM Bookstore" experiment, 2005 SA Election scandal, more)
  • Meet the Kringlemakers (2008): written for the Journal Times in Racine while I was an assistant online editor and multimedia hypenate for the newspaper website. Accompanies a video feature made interviewing three major makers of kringle in Racine, a highly unique Danish pastry made in this region for centuries now.
Words.....
This is a sub-portal page (in progress Aug. '09 for updates, please be patient) that either links to sites for which I have published work, or directly to pieces (PDFs or Word .docs) of travelogue, features, hard news, reviews and academic work. Thrown in for good measure, links to a few important journal entries made in the past decade.

All content is copyright of the author, Brian Jacobson, who retains full responsiblity for the written work and photographs used.
  • The Shooting of Tou Yang (2005): Written for JMC 203 Group project intended for magazine publication. In the end, I took it on but by the end of semester the material dated and no one locally took it. Still one of my favorites so far.
  • A study of street parking conditions near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2005): This was done as a web-based story for JMC 601-Internet Journalism. I got many emails asking to use my findings and report as the battle to implement the "Residential Preferred Parking" plan went before WI legislature. It was an awesome project. And UWM killed the site when I left. Now defunct.
  • Three Brothers Blog Test (2006): written as a last step in the interview process for a spot as a culinary blogger for VISIT Milwaukee. They ended up giving the spot to a newcomer to the city, but said they liked me.