Take this job and fill it with another person

I have resigned my senior writer position at Creative Loafing effective December 5.

It's likely I will continue to write my Don't Panic column for CL and others. I'm still discussing the details with the paper.

For December and most of January, I plan to focus my energy on the book I'm writing with Jodi Anderson and Daniel Ehrenhaft.

They've been very supportive and patient with me while I've dealt with work-related stress and put aside the book to have a wedding and honeymoon. I owe our project my focus for a while. The book is scheduled to be published in early 2010.

My other project at the moment is a Don't Panic-style blog — a daily compendium of international news, commentary, my crappy Photoshopping, a podcast, and, I hope, animation and video.

I've had two opportunities to turn Don't Panic into an animated series. One was a bad offer that I turned down. The other, was a good offer I squandered through inattention. I'm hoping a third attempt will succeed -- if not financially, then at least creatively.

I'm thinking of calling the site Turban Legend for no other reasons than the name makes me laugh and I already have an illustration of myself in a turban.