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: Cliche, 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"
• Contributor to "Put the book back on the shelf: Literary works that should never be adapted to film or TV again "
• Contributor to "'You're off the case!': 19 instances where authorities were justifiably too close to a case to work on it"
• AVQ&A: " Film and TV-induced food cravings"
• Contributor to " A soundproofed room of one's own: 17 well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems"
• AVQ&A: "Culture that makes you feel old"
• "Childhood entertainment we still love"
• AVQ&A: "Life-changing art"
• AVQ&A: Worn-out welcomes
• AV Club: Lifeblog of the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2 Finale
• AVQ&A: "Love the Song, Hate the Lyrics"
• Contributor to " "He has his father's eyes!": 21 creepy babies in film and TV"
• AVQ&A: "Musical Comfort Food"
• AVQ&A: "Memorable character deaths"
• AVQ&A: "Standout Movie Scenes"
• AVQ&A: "Infuriating Art"
• AV Club: Contributor to " Beyond the bathroom: 26+ impulse-buy books worth keeping on the shelves permanently"
• AVQ&A: "Third-act failures"
• Contributor to " bottle: 19 great TV episodes largely confined to one location"
• "Third-act triumphs"
• AVQ&A: Pop culture-induced anxieties
• Contributor to " Praise, then crucify: 25 anti-music-journalist songs"
• AVQ&A: "Doomed fictional couples"
• AVQ&A: Overly distracting actors
• Contributor to " My pager's still blowin' up: 25 songs about outdated (and soon-to-be outdated) technology"
• AVQ&A: Non-doomed fictional couples"
• AV Talk: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World / The Expendables / Eat Pray Love (I talk Eat Pray Love and my portion begins right after :30)
• AVQ&A: " Discomfort comedy we can and can't take
• Contributor to " Turkey wraps and dead dogs: 10 higher-education malcontents in pop culture"
• Contributor to " Kiss off! 28 gleeful breakup songs"
• AVQ&A: A time-travel theoretical
• AVQ&A: Children's pop-culture that adults can love
• Unfortunately inescapable pop culture
• AVQ&A: Art that was spoiled, and whether that spoiled the art
• Contributor to " Davey, sing me something that I know: 28 songs that mention other songs by name"
• AVQ&A: Better the second time
• AVQ&A: Beloved (yet morally troublesome) anti-heroes
• Our worst Halloween-costume failures
• Out-of-context appreciation
• AVQ&A: One more impossible installment
• AVQ&A: Favorite film soundtracks
• Contributor to " "When God closes a door, he opens a dress": 30-plus actual books written by fictional TV characters"
• AVQ&A: Our holiday wishlists
• Contributor to " Another little baby child is born in the ghetto: 22 stories with repeating thematic cycles"
• AVQ&A: Best fictional parties
• Contributor to " The turd in the caviar: 24 songs that almost derail great albums"
• AVQ&A: Other non-2010 pop culture we discovered in 2010
• AVQ&A: The best non-2010 music we discovered in 2010
• Contributor to "The TV Club Awards 2010"
• Contributor to " The 25 best television series of 2010"
• Contributor to " Best TV 2010, part two: 45 standout episodes from series that didn't make our Top 25"
• AVQ&A: New Year's pop-culture resolutions 2010
• Contributor to " The waiting is still the hardest part: 48 of our most anticipated entertainments of 2011">
• Contributor to " The year in swag 2010: The greed edition"
• AVQ&A: Pop-culture we're afraid to revisit
• AVQ&A: Fascinating premise, bland results
AVQ&A: Pop-culture we're afraid to revisit
• AVQ&A: Weirdest childhood foods
• Contributor to " "No time for rhetoric": 18 instances of characters straying from their prepared remarks"
• Contributor to " Rattle and dumb: 13 rock movies that make their subjects look like dicks"
• AVQ&A: Best Shared Cultural Experiences
• AVQUA: When entertainment trumps morality
• I Learned It At The Movies: How to break up
• AVQ&A: Songs to fall to your death to
• Contributor to " Even dystopias have their perks: 19 redeeming qualities for hellish futures"
• AVQ&A: Improving awards season
• Contributor to "You drink for the wrong reasons": 20-plus functional pop-culture alcoholics
• AVQ&A: First Favorite Songs
• AVQ&A: Missed it the first time
• AVQ&A: Fascionation with art we won't experience
• AVQ&A: Art in obsolete formats
• Contributor to " “You haven’t seen the last of me!”: 18 reality-show clichés we never want to see again"
• Q&A: Apocalpyse help
• Contributor to " Nice work, if you can get it: 22 nichey job fields we aren’t taking advantage of in fighting unemployment"
• AVQ&A: Stickiest Songs
• AVQ&A: One-line wonders
• AVQ&A: Fictional entertainment we wish was real
• Contributor to Am I ugly enough for an Oscar now? 17-plus unsuccessful attempts to de-glamorize movie stars"
• AVQ&A: Best uses of music in film/TV
• AVQ&A: If dead artists had lived
• Contributor to " Parents strongly cautioned: 16 parental nightmares played out in culture"
• AVQ&A: Hero teams to the rescue
• AVQ&A: Novelty songs we enjoy as music
• AVQ&A: Most re-read books"
• AVQ&A: Worst lyrical rhymes in popular music
• AVQ&A: Karaoke favorites
• AVQ&A: Art at the exact right time
• Contributor to "Well, Smurf me with a chainsaw: 11 movies that twist the English language for their own purposes"
• AVQ&A: The best of 2011 so far
• AVQ&A: Least likely screen couples
• Contributor to " Eating the enchanted fortune cookie: 16 comedically convenient magical movie items"
• AVQ&A: Vacation music memories
• AVQ&A: Message art that delivers the message
• AVQ&A: Best Show, Worst Episode
• AVQ&A: First R-rated movie
• Contributor to Bands that should have been bigger
• AVQ&A: Favorite falling-in-love stories
• Contributor to Of 30 Rocks and Studio 60s: 38 TV doppelgängers
• AVQ&A: Favorite falling-out-of-love stories
• AVQ&A: Favorite unhappy endings
• Contributor to "Your mother can’t be with you anymore": 17-plus entertainments that teach children about death
• AVQ&A: Actors we hate in movies and TV we love
• AVQ&A: Best scenes in worst movies
• Contributor to " Pure Sabacc wins again: 22-plus fictitious pop-culture games with convoluted rules "
• AVQ&A: Worst Christmas Music
• Contributor to "How to Celebrate the Holidays"
• AVQ&A: Best Christmas music
• Contributor to Beyond the Top 30: other 2011 TV highlights
• Contributor to The TV Club Awards 2011
• Contributor to Best TV of 2011

The Black Table:
"Incoming! June 21, 2004."

"The Week in Craig"
"The Week in Craig: Dirty Slut Advice Club"
"The Black List: A Random Review Of Everything, In Grade Form.
"The Black List: The Redneck Revolution"
"The Black List: I FeeL Pretty--At Least, I'd Like To"
"The Black List: You Take the Good and Take the Bad"
"The Black List: The Super-Boob Halftime Procrastination Spectacular"
"The Black List: Can I Go Home Now?"
"The Black List: Call in the Helper Monkeys!"
"The Black List: Dishonor Roll"
"The Black List: Houston, We Have an Irony"
"The Black List: The Showgirls Epiphany"


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: From Barbara Walters to Dan Brown, the Embarrassing Books They'd Wish We'd Forget"
"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"
" America's Next Top Model to Feature 'Fierce on the Inside' Models"
" A Conversation With "RuPaul's Drag Race" Winner Tyra Sanchez"

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

Wasted Words: Podcast #69: "Pitchers' Duel"