This is the think-piecy/journal of Sasha Stone, editor and main content provider of awardsdaily.com. By day I also occupy myself with the smaller among us. I am currently obsessed with the following: anthropology and evolution, technology, web dev, Jack the Ripper, bad movies, cooking, traveling to far off places (with safe airlines), photography kind of, knitting (but I dropped it like a bad habit a while back, how sad). I am interested in education and try to think always of the bigger picture. I have a theory that without caffeine there would be no internet. So you can add coffee to the list. Just think of how much progress we have made because of our devotion to being high on stimulants at all times. I live in Los Angeles with my darling 11 year-old, my two kitties, my Highlander hybrid and my various computer stuff. Oh and yeah, I occasionally think about the Oscars.

I was born the third of four children and spent much of my childhood in Topanga, CA. I went to various elementary schools until finally ending up in Ojai where my siblings and I finished high school at Nordhoff. I went to NYU and Columbia U, graduated from UCLA. I used to want to be a filmmaker but I have that up a long while back. There are too many talented people out there. (What happens to a dream deferred?)

I got online in 1995, spent a good deal of time honing my skills on a listserv called Cinema-l. So I am always interested in people who were on the net way back in the early days, in the 1200 baud modem days. In the 28.8 baud modem days. Before the web, and long before the blog became so popular. Where am I going from here? I have no idea. But it’s a fun ride while it lasts.