Brooke Geery

Finally, some good news

It's been a hell of a couple weeks. I know it's a cliche, but I am hopeful for future. And I am going on vacation to New Orleans next week. You think they'd reschedule Mardi Gras for me? Well, a girl can hope right. Anyway, go read YoBeat's election coverage. It's funny.
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In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
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Story of My Life

I am supposed to be writing a story about the BMX finals at the LG Action Sports Tour, but the thumping alt rock beats of MXPX are sort of distracting me. So I figured I'd link to the two stories I've already written because I know you are dying to know about all the action in the Inline Vert finals and have no idea where to find out! Day one Recap:  Halloween references, shake ups in the inline world and an attempt to make gansta rap sound interesting. Inline Vert finals: At least someone new won so there was a somewhat interesting story to go with this one. During all…
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Seattle Local

I am back in Seattle for the second weekend in a row, this time for a warmer, but much longer event, the LG Action Sports Championships. While in appearance this event is on the scale of a Dew Tour, it seems when I mention it to people the most common response is, "What's that?" I've been here for two days, but the actual event doesn't start for an hour. So far, the most action I've actually watched is a skateboarding bull dog shredding and slobbering on the street course this morning. So far I've just been shooting some head shots and making famous people hold up YoBeat stickers for my…
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Snowboard time, already.

Between YoBeat, some print stuff, and the newly launched Snowboarder.com, I am feeling the pressure to come up with a lot of content right about now, especially since I want to keep alliancewakeskate.com going strong. But you know, it doesn't say Extreme Journalist on my business card for nothing, so here's the latest. As I mentioned Snowboarder.com finally launched and I had one feature up there. It was originally going to be for YoBeat but Nick always gets screwed by people with budgets. Anyway, Nate helped me out a ton on this one, about the shipping process. Looks like I will be doing more regular stuff for that site as…
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Seasons Change — except in So Cal

I just got back from a quick trip to So Cal. It was partially to keep my status on United, and mostly to have a meeting about Alliancewakeskate.com. Time to add some more functionality, change a few things up. Nothing too major, but I think the stuff we talked about will make the site better, so that's a good thing. Don't want stuff getting stale in wakeskating. It was unbelievably beautiful in San Diego. Warm, sunny, light breeze. You know, perfect. Of course I spent my two days in an office infront of my computer, but at least I was right next to the ocean. Also got my requisite So…
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Big in Europe

After Future went under, I sold off most of what I'd written to Euro mags, which any extreme journalist will tell you is the best thing to do with crap no one in the US will use. Of course, some of the stories were actually pretty good, and I am glad they found a home, even if some of the text is in German and I will probably never see them anyway. I guess the issue of On Board that I sold some teenager profiles too made it stateside, and although I haven't seen it, Adryan was nice enough to scan me a jpeg of the one profile I wrote…
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Equity!

I heard this rumor that the economy is bad. Something about risky lending, Wall Street irresponsibility, people buying houses they couldn't afford, etc. Well I would like to thank lenders for being irresponsible, because without it, there's no way they would have given me a zero-down loan to buy my house. I suppose the difference between me and the people buying $900,000 houses in So Cal is that I found a reasonably-priced house in a somewhat stable market and because of my self-employed status my earning potential is variable. My situation worked out quite well actually, and even in the miserable market, I still owe less on my house than…
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