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Portland, Oregon and Sloe Gin Fizz

If that ain't love then tell me, what is?

I have accepted an offer from the Willamette Week to serve as its new Screen Editor, taking charge of the paper's movie, television, books, gaming and DVD coverage. I begin work on November 20. I am tremendously excited.

This means, of course, that I will be leaving The Pulse -- and Chattanooga -- early next month. It's tempting to be glib about the move, but this has been my home for the past three years (seven, if you count my lost years at Lookout Mountain's finest liberal arts school) and I can't begin to say how much I will miss my friends here.

So I won't try. Instead I'll say that I couldn't be prouder of the work I've done here, and I fully expect to see incisive, quality journalism continue at The Pulse. And I expect Chattanooga to remain the enchanting, confounding, insular and tender place that I've known. I expect it to be my home. And yes, I'll loan it a cigarette.