CURT BRANDAO's NEW COLUMN "DIGITAL SLOB" NOW DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

Digital Slob" is a tightly written, smarty-pants column for the rest of us, the well-educated white-collar grunts who still prefer an informal, blue-collar way of life even as the New Economy corrals us into the Digital Age.

(PRWEB) January 29 2004--Curt Brandao, who got his start in journalism as a high school intern and copy boy for The (Shreveport) Times in 1986, is now writing a humorous technology column called "Digital Slob" distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, the largest independent newspaper syndicate in the world.

In his weekly feature, first published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Brandao maintains that the Digital Age is making slobs seem respectable, and making respectable people seem deranged. And it's clear which side he is on.

"I'm so lazy, I microwave frozen dinners by punching in '2:22 on the timer instead of '2:00 because it's easier to hit '2 three times in a row than to refocus and reposition my index fingers for the '0 lower down on the pad," he writes.

The 35-year-old columnist has been in the newspaper business for a dozen years, working in Mississippi (The Columbian-Progress), Florida (The Lakeland Ledger), North Carolina (The Wilmington Star-News), Washington (The Bremerton Sun) and now Hawaii (the Honolulu Star-Bulletin), where he has been an editor and newsroom manager since 1998.

Brandao got his journalism degree from Louisiana Tech University in 1990, and his master's degree in communications at The University of Tennessee in 1992. At UT, he drew the daily comic strip "Cuff & Rubin," which was a national finalist in the 1991 Charles M. Schulz College Cartoonist contest.

I dont just write about digital cameras or PDAs in IT-speak binary code. I write about my grandmother, the Oscars, high school, loose change, wisdom teeth, time travel, handwriting and ketchup, and how it all relates to how we live now in the Digital Age. 'Technology behavior has now become pervasive enough to mock," Brandao says.

For large papers, Digital Slob" can draw more readers to their extensive, but too often stuffy, technology sections. And for the feature pages of smaller papers, it offers an amusing, easily accessible high-tech presence.

"Digital Slob" is now available every week for immediate download, e-mail or physical delivery via Universal Press Syndicate's one-shot service (http://www.upsoneshots.com). Just contact the Universal Press Syndicate's sales administrator by phone (800-255-6734 ext: 6929) or e-mail (salesdirector@amuniversal.com) to receive pricing, distribution and delivery information.

For more information about "Digital Slob," go to http://www.digitalslob.com

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