Field notes from life
Eight minutes on scaling without scaling resources — the best of Jack Ramsey.
Seven minutes — a crowd safety masterclass, the best of Annie Quaile.
Nine minutes of Greatest Hits 2026 — a masterclass in risk, tech and human behavior.
Twenty-seven minutes with Robert Hudson Jr. on advanced construction risk management, and why your COIs are useless.
Twenty-three minutes with Christine Trippi on transforming risk into hospitality.
Twenty minutes with Annie Quaile on designing for human behavior and managing live event risk without killing the magic.
Seventeen minutes with a Universal creative legend on whether AI is a real risk to the physical world.
Twenty-six minutes with Adrea Gibbs on employee training and workplace culture risk.
Twenty-one minutes with Rochelle Clarke on building resilience through SMB continuity and vendor risk.
Thirty-four minutes with TJ Reardon and Sarah Scott on building the high net worth connection.
Sixteen minutes with Rob Lewis on rethinking the insurance tech stack.
Sixteen minutes with Grant Beck on empowering the human element.
Nineteen minutes with Jack Ramsey on innovation and efficiency.
Giggle Party is not a past-tense band. Four EPs between January and May 2026 — hue, hungry, honeymoon, headstone — twenty-one tracks, all titled with an h, none of them on Bandcamp, which is why every crawl kept missing them. hue includes “I Bought a Label,” a callback to TAOTS at sixteen. honeymoon opens with “The Holes In Your Face Are Pleasing,” the title of the 2008 debut EP reused eighteen years later. “All My Nerves Part II” shipped before Part I, on purpose.
Seventeen minutes with Todd Greenbaum on innovation and operational risk.
Fifteen minutes with Eliron Ekstein, in the Innovation & AI run.
Fourteen minutes with Bill Brower on how AI is going beyond the estimate.
Twenty minutes with Ashish Srivastava, in the Innovation & AI run.
Twenty-nine minutes with Marci De Vries on the future of AI in investigations.
Thirty-two minutes with Sai Kothapalli on transforming construction risk management.
Twenty-five minutes with Keith Stouder of ACT on building responsible innovation.
Twenty-five minutes with Van Carlson on how 831B captives give small businesses big risk power.
Thirteen minutes with Reijo Pold on the future of infrastructure risk management.
Sixteen minutes with Will Mulé on why a global risk program needs to swerve now.
Nineteen minutes with Sridhar Manyem on why D&O markets could cost you more.
Fifteen minutes with Amy Barnes of Marsh on strategic risk management in a complex world.
Nineteen minutes with Pete Kranz on strategic alternatives to traditional insurance.
Seventeen minutes with James Alexander on how Earth observation is transforming climate risk management.
Twenty-three minutes with Kathy Burns, CEO of Acclaimit, on building a better solution.
Seventeen minutes with David Finz of Alliant Insurance on protecting against million-dollar scams.
Sixteen minutes with Lianne Appelt of Salesforce on navigating enterprise innovation.
Thirty-one minutes with Puneet Matai of Rio Tinto on building trust while driving innovation.
Twenty-five minutes with Rohan Sen on new strategies for risk management success.
Twenty-eight minutes with Ed Gaudet on the route from digital risk to AI governance.
Twenty-five minutes with Marty Smuin, CEO of Arturo.
Twenty-nine minutes with Paulina Paczala of Crowe, in The Power of AI in Risk series.
Thirty-five minutes on AI and risk, and how Highwire is changing construction safety.
Twenty-four minutes with Alex Fuentes on how IoT is transforming construction risk management.
Twenty-six minutes with David Embry of Mylo on how AI is transforming small business insurance.
Twenty-two minutes with Thomas Beattie, opening The Power of AI in Risk series.
Forty-two minutes with Brian Fielkow and David Weinstein of Acrisure.
Twenty-four minutes with Adrian Pellen of NFP on navigating risk in construction's tech revolution.
Twenty-six minutes with a risk management specialist on vendor management and strategic mitigation.
Fifteen minutes with Henry Kowal of Arity on real-time driving data transforming insurance.
Twelve minutes with Hugues Bertin on the opportunities and challenges of building insurance markets in Latin America.
Ten minutes with Laura Doddington of WTW on the future of externalized rating and underwriting.
Twenty-seven minutes with a risk management specialist on centralized data and effective vendor engagement.
Thirty-two minutes with James Benham on building a safety culture, borrowing from aviation.
Seventeen minutes with a VP of Partnerships & Strategy on embracing technology and elevating customer value.
Twenty-seven minutes with Paul Hedgepath of M. J. Harris Construction Services on transforming construction using virtual design and BIM.
Twenty-two minutes with a Head of Risk on integrating technology with risk management and being comfortable taking risks.
Thirty-two minutes with Nicole Peck and Bill Harris.
Twenty-five minutes with Jacquie Parker of The PENTA Building Group on navigating cybersecurity challenges in risk management.
Twenty-four minutes on enhancing COI reviews, the risk in inexperience, and modernizing insurance practices.
Nineteen minutes with the Director of TrustLayer+ on defining risk appetite and the impact of technology in insurance.
Nineteen minutes with a VP of Operations & Innovation on technology's impact on insurance and the innovation process.
Twenty-one minutes with a risk and insurance manager on the psychology of disasters and intelligent risk taking.
Twenty-five minutes on personalizing insurance sales, overcoming organizational inertia, and thriving in change-driven careers.
Thirty-four minutes on how to work with subcontractors, how to educate your insurance team, and what technology to integrate into an insurance process.
Twenty-five minutes with a risk management director on risk management being everywhere, what acceptable risk means, and the qualities a risk manager needs.
Twenty-two minutes with Atlanta Housing's Melissa Hollingsworth on empathy, diligence and understanding for risk managers.
Twenty-seven minutes on focusing on specialization, and whether working in risk management changes your mentality.
Thirteen minutes with Laura Hatton, Risk Manager at Burnham Holdings.
Nineteen minutes on managing your risk portfolio, the role of technology in construction, and the power of curiosity.
Seventeen minutes with Lyndsey Christofer of Chubb, back for a second episode.
Eleven minutes with David Williams of the LA Clippers.
Twelve minutes with Alexandra Littlejohn on leveraging data analytics for risk management in insurance.
Nineteen minutes with Rob McDonough of Marsh USA.
Sixteen minutes with Brad Hibbert of Prevalent Inc. on the importance of third-party risk management.
Twenty-one minutes with Daniel Ruiz of SC Builders.
2024 is the year the campaign turned into an institution. Underneath the missions: a player database, a podcast, a pop-up teller, LA trips to The Ladder with Hatch Escapes, a first LA event with Katie Kimmel, incorporation in November, and volunteer meet-ups at POAM HQ. POAM turned one in August and I started a 365-day music project to mark it.
Sixteen minutes with Allister Yu of Rhoads Online Institute on AI's role in combating the aging workforce.
Eighteen minutes with Matt Aston, President at GPRS, on proactive risk management and the benefits of technology in construction.
Nineteen minutes with Tanner Hackett of Counterpart.
Twenty minutes with Rich Lenkov, founder and CEO at SERMA, on navigating risks in sports and entertainment.
Sixteen minutes with Jeff Goldsmith, VP of Marketing at CompScience.
LinkedIn at /in/betterjason is the primary publishing surface now, and the thing the Content Machine feeds. Thirty-one years after the first connection, the pattern hasn't changed: build the platform, then publish on it every day.
Twenty minutes with Max Drucker, co-founder and CEO of Carpe Data, on getting data into insurance and using it right.
Thirty-five minutes with Tim Hardcastle, CEO and co-founder of Instanda.
Twenty-two minutes with Mark Breading, Senior Partner in Consulting at ReSource Pro.
Eleven minutes with Holly LeClair of ReArch Company on why risk managers need to get out into the field.
Twelve minutes with Kevin Soohoo of Egnyte.
Twenty-eight minutes with Josh Levy of Document Crunch on understanding and managing contracts.
Nineteen minutes with Lyndsey Christofer of Chubb on building strong client relationships.
Forty-seven minutes with Aaron Frumin and Jennifer Dewees on building a better future by empowering youth in construction.
Twenty-eight minutes with Danny Seigle and Peter O'Brien of Procore on leveraging data for operational excellence.
Twenty minutes with Tyler Capson, Managing Director of EverEdge, on everything you need to know about intangible asset management.
Twenty-four minutes with Kevin Yascur, Risk Manager at Soben.
Twenty-five minutes with Mike Flynn, Corporate Safety Director at Barnard Construction Company, on the route from the end of a shovel to risk management.
A Greatest Hits re-run — 27 minutes with Matthew Meyer on focusing on specialization.
Twenty-four minutes with Zach Wright, Risk Manager at The Haskell Company, on why risk managers are the first line of defense.
Twenty-six minutes with Haley Weis, Senior Risk Analyst at Weis Builders.
Twenty-seven minutes with Marco Romero, Risk Management & Claims Specialist at Harkins Builders, on communicating insurance and mastering risk.
Seventeen minutes with Sharon Fox, VP of Partnerships and Strategy at TrustLayer.
Thirty minutes from Risk World 2023 with Patrick O'Neill of Redhand Advisors and Marc Vincent of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.
Fifty-five minutes from Risk World 2023 with Brett Tucker of Carnegie Mellon University, Justin Smulison of RIMS, and Maren Mooney of Stratus Risk Associates.
Forty-six minutes from Risk World 2023 with Craig Tappel of HUB International, Dr. Marcos Iglesias of Travelers, and Allister Yu of Rhoads Online Institute.
Twenty-two minutes with Joanna Dimitrion, Head of Risk at Lend Lease Americas.
Twenty-four minutes with Anne Grubish, Risk Manager at Kraus-Anderson.
Nineteen minutes with Steven Wright, Director of TrustLayer+, on how to define your risk appetite.
Nineteen minutes with Katherine Minami, VP of Operations and Innovation at NFP, on breaking, dissecting and rebuilding a problem.
Nine minutes on The Revenue Cafe — “The Repeatable Sales Process Is Dead,” part one.
Twenty-two minutes with Steve Dell'Orto on risk management for pre-construction.
On 16 February 2023 I published two essays the same day: “Above the Waterline” Thinking and Distributing Authority to the Edges of an Organization, and “The Ups and Downs of #SiloNoMore — A tour of duty supporting RevOps.” Ten years after founding the consultancy, writing a retrospective on my own banner. It's the first public sign of the shift from evangelising a category to interrogating it — the same move 8thday makes on the personal side.
Twenty-two minutes with Robert Barney on integrating technology into the construction industry.
Fifteen minutes on the plainest question the show could ask — why is risk management important?
Twenty-one minutes with Cory Mangum on the psychology behind human-made disasters.
Twenty-five minutes with Mark Rieder on embracing personalization in risk management.
Thirty-four minutes with Christy McHenry on working with subcontractors.
Twenty-five minutes with Diana Rich, on risk management being everywhere.
Twenty-seven minutes with Matt Meyer on how specialized risk management services mitigate risk and cut costs.
The first episode of Risk Management: Brick by Brick — 19 minutes with Seth Hausman on managing your risk portfolio.
Seventeen minutes on Breadcrumbs' Hot Takes, arguing the repeatable sales process is dead.
Forty-four minutes on the SaaS(ramp) Podcast, on finding the right fit for your company.
Forty-five minutes on the Revenue Insights Podcast, on eliminating operational silos and increasing business efficiency through RevOps, as CRO at TrustLayer.
OpsStars on closing customer-experience gaps as CRO of Breadcrumbs, SaaS(ramp) episode 24 with Podcast Pete on services versus SaaS, RevAmp on how RevOps increases LTV by 15%, and Manage Smarter episode 144. Plus RevOps and Hops, SaaS Marketing Insights, Hyperfast Agent, Insurtech Insider, Ebsta, Maxio and Databird.
Forty-six minutes on the 11:FS Insurtech Insider Podcast, episode 112, on harnessing big data's potential for the insurance industry.
A twenty-six minute interview on the Breakfast Leadership Show.
Forty-three minutes in the CRO Series on the Global Tech Leaders' Podcast, discussing RevOps as CRO of Breadcrumbs.io.
Back on stage at Endgames, this time as a performer rather than a student, while running revenue at a venture-backed insurtech. Endgames runs six-month house-team stints; which teams isn't published anywhere reachable.
Chief Revenue Officer at TrustLayer, the insurance-verification company, from 2022. The second operator seat, and in construction and commercial insurance, about as far from SaaS-native as it gets.
Thirty-seven minutes on RevAmp by DealHub.io, on how revenue operations can increase LTV by 15%.
Twenty-nine minutes with Priyanka on breaking down operational silos, billed as CRO of Breadcrumbs.
Thirty minutes on Strategy Sprints, on increasing customer lifetime value.
A one-minute exercise published to the channel: a social check-in asking people to draw how they feel. It is the earliest public appearance of the framework that becomes 8thday — the coaching practice arriving as a drawing prompt rather than a method.
Kill Yr Silos with Mallory Lee of Terminus, on ABM, RevOps and CS Ops.
Thirty-three minutes on B2B Nation, asking whether the RevOps methodology is right for your B2B organization.
Kill Yr Silos with Janaye McGrew of Go Nimbly, on how people end up in RevOps.
Two standalone Giggle Party singles three weeks apart, on 7 and 28 May 2021, straight after the retrospective.
Kill Yr Silos with Todd Caponi, author of The Transparency Sale.
I left the consultancy to become an operator, and said why plainly: to challenge myself and see what it would look like to build RevOps from the ground up. Years of telling other companies how to do it, then doing it myself with my own name on the number. I wrote “The Repeatable Sales Process is Dead” for their Hot Takes series and did the Global Tech Leaders’ CRO Series, and I am still an advisor.
A thirty-second promo for Kill Yr Silos, pitching the show on its own question: what do punk rock and RevOps have to do with one another?
Please Like Our Band Now came out on 9 April 2021 — a fourteen-track Giggle Party retrospective with two previously unreleased songs, “Expiration” and “Simple Beat,” plus a “Corporate Whore” remix. Thirteen years after the first EP I went back and made the archive coherent. Which is, more or less, what this timeline is.
Kill Yr Silos with Angela Welch of Clio, on data versus human.
Two 2021 Giggle Party singles that never went to Bandcamp: Expiration on 29 March — the previously-unreleased track from the retrospective, given its own release — and Flawless on 23 July.
Part two, published a week after the first. Thirty-seven minutes on The Friday Habit.
Kill Yr Silos with Stephen McBride of HubSpot, on customer success.
Part one of a two-part conversation on The Friday Habit about leading as an entrepreneur. Twenty-five minutes.
Forty minutes on The Sales Vitamin Podcast, on Go Nimbly and running it as CEO.
The Predictable Revenue Podcast, episode 185 — RevOps as the missing link that will increase your revenue by 26%. Thirty-five minutes.
Kill Yr Silos with Jessica Thomas of FMX.
Thirty-eight minutes with SaaS Boss on RevOps and SaaS.
Kill Yr Silos with Ross Nibur of Toast, on the key to toasty RevOps.
Twenty-seven minutes on the Marketing Mavericks Show, on closing gaps and growing revenue by 26%.
Kill Yr Silos with Leslie Mertz of Aurora Solar.
The Sales Lift episode 29, “Scaling Up with RevOps” — RevOps defined, personalised buying experiences, and the four skills of a great revenue operator. SaaS Boss with Natalie Luneva followed on 28 January.
Thirty-two minutes on Outbound Sales Lift, on scaling up with RevOps.
Only child, mother working nights, awake at 2am aged five when a documentary about Tex Avery and the early Disney animators came on. A light bulb went off that said, that's what I should do when I grow up — it was like a get-out-of-this-life card. First art museum at 17, then years as a low-brow surrealist collector. I started drawing again at 37, when Stella was five and being encouraged to draw, and the people around me finally supported it.
Kill Yr Silos with Dayna Rothman of OneLogin, on the connections a company has to have.
Twenty-five minutes on SaaS Startup Stories, on how to find the gaps in a customer journey.
The first episode of Kill Yr Silos, with Andrew Lobb of Zinier — on hoarding, and what it costs.
Thirty-four minutes on how to break down silos in SaaS companies.
Twenty-three minutes on Manage Smarter, on improving revenue operations through the coronavirus period.
B2B Growth episode 1321 — 38 minutes on the four key metrics for efficient revenue operations.
Forty-eight minutes on Startup Competitors, taking the Moneyball approach to growing a business.
Forty-six minutes on Metrics that Measure Up: what revenue operations is, why it matters, and how to measure its business impact.
A second Jess Larsen episode published the same day — 21 minutes on helping SaaS clients with $2.4 billion a year of recurring revenue operations.
Twenty-five minutes on The Jess Larsen Show on Innovation & Leadership, on finding the broken parts of a sales and marketing process.
Kat and I separated in 2020, after thirteen years married and twenty-two as friends, bandmates and collaborators — Another Antigone, Results May Vary, The Bends, Giggle Party. The dissolution was uncontested; the judgment was entered on 6 July 2021. The same year we separated, I met Laura Ogle, my partner since and later the co-creator of People On A Mission. Kat is a creative director in the Bay Area now.
Thirty-six minutes on The SaaS Revolution Show on adapting your marketing in times of crisis, with Lorena Morales of Go Nimbly.
Eleven minutes with Adam Torres on Mission Matters Innovation, on revenue operations.
Twenty-nine minutes on RevOps and Hops, on building a RevOps function at Go Nimbly.
Fifty-two minutes with Christien Louviere on CRO Gumbo, as CEO of Go Nimbly.
Forty-two minutes with Sean Lane on Operations, answering what the dollar impact of ops actually is.
Sixty-five minutes with Dan Martell on Escape Velocity, working through the 3VC model for getting RevOps running in a SaaS company.
Escape Velocity episode 15 with Dan Martell, then The SaaS Revolution Show with Alex Theuma of SaaStock, then Mission Matters with Adam Torres in April 2020 on how Go Nimbly is helping businesses rethink revenue operations.
Twenty-five minutes on The SaaS Revolution Show, on revenue operations, billed as CEO of Go Nimbly.
Three minutes in the #TiETV Media Lounge at TieCon 2019.
Twenty-seven minutes moderating a marketing and sales alignment panel at TiEcon 2019, with Heidi Bullock of Engagio and Janice Le of Palo Alto Networks.
The Official SaaStr Podcast, episode 231 — why SQLs and MQLs are redundant, why hand-offs between go-to-market teams have to go, and why one north star for the whole company can be damaging. Twenty-seven minutes, as founder and CEO of Go Nimbly.
Twenty-three minutes on SaaS Marketing Insights, breaking down operational silos, billed as Jason Reichl of Go Nimbly.
“How RevOps is another lever to pull for high growth SaaS companies” went up on 11 March 2019 — the earliest dated post still in my blog archive, and the start of a writing practice that hasn't broken since. What followed it: “How to build a RevOps function” in January 2020, the COVID catch-up piece in January 2021, the RevOps.io conversation that February, and “How to build a revenue operations team” with Andrew Lobb in September 2022.
The Normal Show played SF Sketchfest at PianoFight in San Francisco, 7 p.m.
I’ve been a podcast guest more than 300 times. About twenty of those appearances are on this timeline; the rest went mostly unlisted.
Band and solo photos of Giggle Party against bright pink, green and white backdrops, used around the 2021 retrospective Please Like Our Band Now.
Giggle Party played a show in San Francisco.
Classes at Second City — the formal end of a decade of self-taught stage work.
Two years of classes and work at the San Francisco improv theatre, running directly into The Normal Show. Jason returns as a performer in 2022.
Stella Lake Reichl was born on 27 September 2015. I was months into flying to Copenhagen every week as Director of Product at Tradeshift, and I left that January. Six years later she was five and being encouraged to draw, and I started drawing again at 37 after three decades of not. She's the one entry on this timeline with no public artifact at all, and the one that changed the most.
A year of product leadership at Tradeshift, the supply-chain unicorn, flying to Copenhagen every week. Stella was born that September; I left the following January. The commute and the newborn were not compatible, and I chose.
From 2015 to 2017 I worked stand-up in San Francisco and the Bay Area, partly as a duo with Reid Koster. It's the apprenticeship that became The Normal Show. It's also the reason a RevOps keynote from me doesn't sound like a RevOps keynote.
Giggle Party with Sweat Lodge and Nasty Christmas at Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco. 9 p.m., $8.
AM & Shawn Lee's 'Sounds of Summer' album release show at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, with Chicano Batman and Giggle Party.
A standalone Giggle Party single, later given its own video.
Giggle Party with Stereo Total and Super Adventure Club at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St, San Francisco. 8 p.m., $15.
Giggle Party at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco — the show the “this city smells like piss” EP was released to promote.
A three-track digital EP put out as a limited download to promote the Giggle Party show at Bottom Of The Hill on 20 January 2013. The title is a Texas transplant's review of San Francisco.
Imperial Teen headlined Café du Nord for Noise Pop's 20th anniversary, with 20 Minute Loop and Giggle Party.
Hey Rosetta!, Giggle Party and The Jezabels at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco.
Bills Giggle Party played, by Jason's own accounting: Matt & Kim, Toro y Moi, Kurt Vile, Man Man, Imperial Teen, Mucca Pazza, Con Bro Chill, Harry & The Potters, Stereo Total, The Jezabels, Hey Rosetta! and Mister Heavenly. The individual dates and venues are still un-sourced.
Giggle Party came back to Denton to play the 35 Conferette festival, formerly NX35.
Giggle Party played El Rio, 3158 Mission St, San Francisco.
Giggle Party played a show, most likely in Lawrence, Kansas.
Death and Other Unnatural Phenomena came out 5 October 2010 — fifteen tracks, written the year I moved across the country. The sleeve asks it plainly: “If you knew when you would die could you be strong enough to try and make your life mean something?” It's about getting a second chance at living and failing to make the change stick. Plus it sounds like a party. DIY sample copies went out at the farewell show under the working title Get Your Finger Wet.
Giggle Party's going-away party and final Dallas show, at The Handsome Kitten — Jason's own venue at 824 Exposition Ave #8 — with Holy Spain, Young & Brave and Backflap.
On 11 June 2010, the day of the farewell show, the Dallas Observer ran Alan Ayo's Q&A: “Giggle Party Tells Us Why It's Bailing On Dallas.” The stated reason was that I was headed to San Francisco for real-life, not-at-all-music-related career reasons, and Kat and the rest of the band came too. My own framing was sharper — “Dallas was just a stop on my way to moving to a coast,” and “San Francisco will be shitty, and harder to gain traction as a band. I think we love that kind of challenge.” John from Parade of Flesh, Cory Graves and Jaime Falcon objected loudest.
Giggle Party played The Kessler Theater in North Oak Cliff, Dallas.
The Coathangers, Giggle Party and Leg Sweeper at The Cavern in Dallas.
Smile Smile, Fishboy and Giggle Party played the POF Showcase at the Boiler Room during NX35 in Denton.
The Flaming Lips, A.M. Ramblers, Andrew Tinker and Giggle Party at the NX35 Music Conferette in Denton, Texas.
Giggle Party played the Double Wide in Dallas.
Giggle Party played the Red Eyed Fly in Austin, Texas.
Giggle Party played a show in an art gallery, with confetti over the crowd.
Giggle Party played Kettle Art in Dallas alongside a Damien Weighill exhibit — the illustrator who would later draw God Hates Charades.
Giggle Party played The Loft in Dallas.
Mount Righteous, Giggle Party and Mr. Troll at Andy's Bar in Denton, Texas.
Giggle Party played the first Crave Art & Music festival, outdoors at Nova in Oak Cliff, Dallas.
Jason on bass at a Giggle Party show, with the 'Sorry about the mess' decal on the bass.
Giggle Party played a house show, most likely in Norman, Oklahoma, in November 2009.
Giggle Party played a show, most likely in Chicago.
Kurt Vile & the Violators, Giggle Party and The Aquaholics at the Lounge on Elm Street, Dallas. A free show, on Halloween.
Giggle Party taped episode 25 of the Dallas Observer's DC9 in SPACE video series at SPACE studio in Deep Ellum, Dallas.
In 2009 we sold “Big Bang” to Pepsi, and a licensing company picked us up off the back of it. The song is the opening track of Death and Other Unnatural Phenomena, the concept album about mortality. A party-punk art project out of Deep Ellum placed a song with Pepsi.
Ear Pwr, Giggle Party and Toro y Moi in Dallas — the show moved from the Pastime Tavern to Good Records.
Sleeping in the Aviary with Giggle Party and PVC Street Gang in Dallas — cancelled.
Ella Minnow, Astronomers, Giggle Party and Mino Jeta at Andy's Bar in Denton, Texas.
Giggle Party played with Matt & Kim at the House of Blues in Dallas — an all-ages show. Seventeen people logged attending.
Giggle Party posed in the photobooth after a show at Hal Samples' SPACE in Deep Ellum, Dallas.
Giggle Party shot its summer 2009 press photos around a swimming pool, with Pete Freeman from the Dallas Observer and Gabe's brother helping with the water.
MAN MAN played an intimate show at the Lounge on Elm Street in Dallas, with Giggle Party and The Boom Boom Box.
Ella Minnow, Giggle Party and Here, In Arms at the Lounge on Elm Street, Dallas.
Giggle Party played SPACE, Hal Samples' studio and gallery on Main Street in Deep Ellum, Dallas.
Giggle Party played the Lounge on Elm Street in Dallas.
Giggle Party played SPACE, Hal Samples' studio and gallery at 2814 Main St in Deep Ellum, Dallas, on the night of the Happy Bullets make-out video shoot.
Giggle Party played a small room full of balloons and silly string.
“Jason Bought A Hatchet” landed in the Dallas Observer's top 40 local songs of 2009. That was the first time strangers publicly ranked something I made.
Giggle Party's debut EP, four tracks, carrying the single “Jason Bought A Hatchet” — which got a music video.
Five years at Bluewolf, the Salesforce consultancy — the job that ran underneath the entire Giggle Party era. The consulting-for-SaaS muscle that became RevOps got built here. It is also the job I left to start Go Nimbly.
On 11 March 2007 I married Katrina Michie at the Nasher Sculpture Center. We met in Another Antigone in high school and played in four bands together across nine years. It rained. It was beautiful. We'd been writing the planning down in public since June 2006 at IndieWed.blogspot.com, signed “Original post by Kat and J.”
From 2007 to 2009 I managed visual effects projects for Troublemaker Studios, Robert Rodriguez's film studio in Austin, and for Alchemy, the effects company it worked with, at the same time.
Jason signed up for the Blogathon: a post every thirty minutes for twenty-four hours straight, sponsored per post. His chosen charity was Book Aid, and sponsorship went to sponsor@killerawesome.com.
A running review format on killerawesome.com under the /short/ category. The recovered instalment is Less Than Jake's In With The Out Crowd — a band that had been on Jason's influence list five years earlier.
Database engineer at CoffeeCup Software, the web-design software company from Corpus Christi. Rackspace bought it, and I kept working on the databases there until 2008.
On 2 February 2004 I stood up jasonreichl.com. The first Wayback capture, six weeks later, shows a bare Apache 1.3.29 directory index — no site, just cgi-bin/. I claimed the namespace years before I had anything to put in it.
About three years at the hosting company. Staff got free websites, which is how jasonreichl.com started life as a bare server, and where the idea for a hosting business of my own came from.
This was one of my favorite jobs of all time.
The band site ran per-member journals with a “click here to update your journal page” form — a hand-rolled blogging CMS, five years before I put WordPress on killerawesome.com. My page shows one entry, last updated 11/27/01. The entry body itself was never captured.
The Results May Vary front page announced cover art for The Red Scare EP, first-show dates in the works, and band shirts for sale. The same update mentions Jason writing an on-line journal with new entries every day.
The third and final Another Antigone EP — Volume 2, to a Volume 1 that never existed.
I wrote my band member page on 25 May 2001, at about seventeen. The influence list opens with The Ramones and includes Less Than Jake. Twenty years later I built the whole framing of Kill Yr Silos around The Ramones, and in 2006 I reviewed Less Than Jake in one sentence on killerawesome.com. The list knew something before I did.
Another Antigone played Corpus Christi, Texas with Recover, Whoa Sam! and The Impossibles — seven bucks. The venue was never announced and the date is approximate.
The band's roster page went up with everyone's AIM handles on it: Jason Antigone on bass at iamadorkforyou, Kat at Anotheremogirl, Kamikaze Mike at Laminateman84, and Liz “Moody Blues” Jonson at Moodybluesjonson.
Another Antigone played Champs in Harker Heights, Texas with Free Clinic Kelly and The Missing Digits. Four bucks.
Another Antigone played Harker Heights, Texas — billed on the band's own shows page as “our 3rd sneaky pete show.” Five bucks.
The four-song Ten Am EP came out on TAOTS Records, recorded early 2000. “Fly Away” reappears from the debut, and the release page promised a Ten Am contest and reviews that never got posted.
Another Antigone played The City Park in Lampasas, Texas with Lush and Eightball. Five bones at the door.
The band's shows page, last updated 27 March 2001, listing four dates across Lampasas, Harker Heights and Corpus Christi with prices quoted in bones and bucks. The band's own booking number doubled as the venue contact.
A band photo and an illustrated poster of Another Antigone, from the band's website, anotherantigone.com, in 2001.
Around 2000 we recorded an Another Antigone EP at Bill Kennedy's studio in Dallas — the man who engineered Nine Inch Nails' Broken and mixed The Downward Spiral. A high school band from Kempner, in that room. I've described the session as exciting and weird. No credit for it appears in any published Kennedy discography, so the tape or the sleeve is the only proof there will ever be.
Another Antigone's debut EP, self-released on Jason's own TAOTS Records at about fifteen or sixteen. It carried the single “Desk All In A Row” and the acoustic track “Fly Away.” No sleeve or audio has surfaced.
I got online in 1995 and used it the way it was actually used then — playing internet games and building websites for bands. The handles I carried were kingdork1983, a King Dork reference with my birth year in it, and jokerman800, alongside the one the archive kept independently, iamadorkforyou. Two of the three are self-deprecating jokes about being a dork. The voice was already fully formed at about twelve.