POP CULTURE EPHEMERA

The AV Club:

  • "Does music belong in humor?: 15 novelty singles from prominent funnymen"
  • "Dead leaves and the dirty ground: 25 sad songs for changing seasons"
  • "Little more than a cameo: 19 stellar cinematic one-scene wonders"
  • "No cure for cabin fever: 16 memorable films set during cold snaps"
  • " Odd ends stolen out of holy writ: 18 Unusual Shakespeare adaptations"
  • "Shame on you, Scotty Schwartz: 19 child actors who went on to successful, respectable careers"
  • "Someone fire their agents! 26 actors who deserve better careers"
  • "X's and O's (and V's and Y's): 20 one-letter entertainment items before W."
  • "Why buy the cow? 27 popular websites that became books"
  • "Vaporware no more: 31 lost projects we're hoping to see in the wake of Chinese Democracy"
  • Hope in a box: The A.V. Club's guide to holiday gifts for the new era of good feelings
  • "The gift that keeps on taking: 15 terrible presents in TV and film"
  • "Christmas, please, but hold the treacle: 42 holiday entertainments that don't make us want to claw our eyes out with rage"
  • Contributor to "Romance minus the schmaltz: 29 falling-in-love movies we actually believe in"
  • Contributor to Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em: 30 (mostly sexual) odes to various body parts, from top to bottom"
  • AVQ&A: "Music We Can't Listen to Anymore"
  • "AVQ&A: Guaranteed pop-culture laughs"
  • " Turn off the shuffle: 25 great albums that work best when listened to from start to finish"
  • AVQ&A: "Families and Art"
  • AVQ&A: "Things We Want to Experience Again for the First Time"
  • AVQ&A: "Films That Make Us Cry"
  • "Lifetime Grudges"
  • AVQ&A Favorite Local Commercials
  • AVQ&A The songs of summer
  • Contributor to "'I'll allow it!': 18 crazy (and legally unlikely) courtroom scenes"
  • Jackson memories
  • AVQ&A " Love at first video"
  • Contributor to " The Criterion Collection of junk food: 19 snacks and sodas we wish were still on the market"
  • AVQ&A: " American pop-culture pride"
  • AVQ&A: "First jobs and pop-culture memories"
  • "Labor Pains"
  • "Wedding ceremonies"
  • AVQ&A "Favorite Time-Wasting Websites"
  • AVQ&A Celebrity BFFs
  • Contributor to " Souls for sale: 20+ fictional ad or PR professionals in need of redemption"
  • AVQ&A "Dream Collaborations"
  • AVQ&A "Art we tried too late"
  • AVQ&A AVQ&A: Cliche, cliche, go away
  • AVQ&A AVQ&A: Cliché, hooray
  • AVQ&Q AVQ&A: "Celebrity encounters"
  • Contributor to " Gettin’ horizontal with Maddie: 22 TV series not ruined when two characters hooked up"
  • Contributor to " You'll lick this picture business: 27 movies about the difficulty of making movies"
  • Contributor to AVQ&A: Favorite micro-genres
  • AVQ&A: " Rocking/working out"
  • AVQ&A: Road-trip mix-tape
  • AVQ&A "Illness entertainment"
  • AVQ&A: "Entertainment that terrified us "
  • AVQ&A: "Drop-everything movies "
  • AVQ&A: " Entertainment rituals"

  • Contributor to " The best TV series of the ’00s"
  • " Inventory book excerpt: Contributor to "No, seriously, you’re next! 15 movies where the crazies are right"
  • "AVQ&A: Music to work by
  • Contributor to The A.V. Club’s Economy-Stimulating Decadent Holiday Gift Guide
  • AVQ&A " Personal drinks of choice"
  • AVQ&A: "Early experiences in pop-culture dorkiness"
  • AVQ&A: Best personal pop-culture experiences of the decade
  • Contributor to "The year in television: 45 indelible moments from 2009"
  • AVQ&A: New Year’s pop-culture resolutions
  • AVQ&A: "Pop-culture pilgrimages"
  • AVQ&A: "Proselytizing projects"
  • AVQ&A: Favorite bad-asses
  • Contributor to That’s cancertainment!: 25 great songs, books, films, albums, and TV shows in which cancer plays a major role"
  • AVQ&A: "Falling out of love hard"
  • AVQ&A: "Personal pop-culture rules"
  • AVQ&A: "Your life, via the Onion"
  • Cleo Magazine
    "Why Does Everyone Keep Going Out with John Mayer?"

    LA Times
    Contributor to Favorite signatures: from Ginsberg to Sedaris"
    " Miss 'Project Runway'? Try these shows on for size"
    "'Project Runway' alums: Where are they now?"
    " "So You Think You Can Dance': Chatting with Cat Deeley"

    LA Times Envelope:
    : Showtracker Smackdown: TV trackers face off--"America's Next Top Model" vs. "Project Runway"

    Metromix:
    "Destination: Fermentation"
    "Lose the Wait"
    "Spring Tonics"

    NewCity Chicago:
    Best of Chicago 2001 and 2002 (misc. contributions)

    Radar Online:
    "Amazon Wish Lists of the Rich and Famous"
    "Read in the Face"
    "The Spoils of a Sex Tape"

    TV.com:
    "Your Everything Guide to New Year's TV Marathons"
    " Forget Top Model—RuPaul's Drag Race is Way More Fierce"
    "30 Rock: Rating Jack Donaghy's Girlfriends"
    "Community: Why Jeff and Annie Belong Together"
    " 12 TV Shows That Hurt So Good"

    "Sundance's Be Good Johnny Weir Stands to Bring a New Audience to the Olympics"
    "Childhood TV Crushes: Where Are They Now?