Slackerwood

Jette Kernion, an Austin film critic and journalist with a master's degree in screenwriting from the University of Texas, wrote a column called "News from Slackerwood" for Cinematical in 2005 and 2006. When the column ended, she kept the name, bought the domain and started Slackerwood in 2006. She posted a few test entries that April, but she counted May 27, 2006 as the start, the day of the first post people actually read. The site covered Austin film from production to exhibition, with news, interviews, festival coverage, reviews and a guide to local screening venues. Chip Rosenthal kept the site running as technical director for its full run. Chris Holland was its first contributor besides Kernion and started a podcast. Jenn Brown was its first assistant editor.

In 2010 the Austin Chronicle profiled Slackerwood as one of three Austin film sites that followed Ain't It Cool News and called it the best Austin-specific film site going, noting its festival coverage and reports from Marfa and the True Grit shoot. The site's About page says the Chronicle named it Best Austin Movie Blog in 2011. In 2007, when the original Alamo Drafthouse on Colorado Street closed, Slackerwood co-hosted an Alamo Downtown Blog-a-thon with Blake Ethridge. Regular features included Lone Star Cinema, a monthly review of a Texas-made film; Debbie Cerda's Film on Tap, on beer and movies in Austin; and Don Clinchy's TAMI Flashback.

The Austin Film Society published Slackerwood from 2012 to 2014, and AFS staff, interns and apprentices wrote and edited articles. Kernion wrote that when the partnership ended in 2014, the contributors kept writing without pay.

On April 27, 2015, Kernion announced that Slackerwood would stop publishing after nine years because editing it took time she wanted for other writing. New content ended on May 28, 2015, with a farewell post and a final Lone Star Cinema review. Her list of where contributors were going named Cinapse for Elizabeth Stoddard and Frank Calvillo, Ain't It Cool News for Mike Saulters, and Paste for Matt Shiverdecker. A June 2016 note says the site is an archive and is no longer maintained. It remains online.