2008
Sep
"Don't Point That Gun at Him, He's An...
This week, the website I write for hired a new editorial intern named Conor McKeon. This excites me...
Sep 4th
Draperism of the Week
“Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe — every woman is one of them.” ...
Sep 1st
Aug
The cozy Old Town Bar on 18th Street is fast becoming my...
Aug 31st
Guns! Bombs! Textiles! Web 2.0!
Building ownership is something I’m not generally familiar with, much for the same reason I...
Aug 29th
Seeing wrtier Robert Smigel in-character as his notorious...
Aug 28th
If You See Only One British Comedian...
In the past two weeks, I’ve seen two films featuring British comedian Steve Coogan: Ben...
Aug 26th
Chilean artist Carlos Sabogal has created a photo-realistic...
Aug 19th
jeffrubinjeffrubin: …Next two paragraphs for The Wire fans only, especially those who have...
Aug 7th
Curry In My Favor
Recently, my co-worker Sarah — apropo of nothing, mind you — wrote passionately about...
Aug 7th
Me and some friends from college have been holding...
Aug 3rd
I was destroyed by my editor Jeff in a Super Chexx bubble...
Aug 2nd
Watch
The Large Hadron Collider, history’s biggest particle accelerator, will be switched on in 7...
Aug 1st
Jul
Jeepers Creepers...
My editor and I have assembled a montage chronicling movie scenes in which one character digs his...
Jul 26th
Listen
The new season of AMC’s incredible Mad Men premieres tomorrow. I could talk about how the show...
Jul 26th
Chandler Bing and the "Subtle Art" of...
Toward the end of the 2000 movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s love-struck...
Jul 23rd
Take That, Christian Slater!
My old roommate Robbie shot a movie in Phoenix over the summer (co-written by Logan Antill)....
Jul 18th
Kanye West Bank
Early this May, the blog “What I Learned Today” posted an insightful article examining...
Jul 1st
Jun
Genius Blog Post Explores National...
One relatively minor but incredibly enjoyable duty of my job at a humor website involves coming up...
Jun 17th
On Sunday a news item on Patrick Swayze gave me the...
Jun 10th
The "Enduring Awesomeness" Of Patrick...
This weekend, the New York Times took a break from reporting meaningless, trite news items like the...
Jun 9th
Rednecks Turn Left
Although my residence in a state east of the Mississippi may hint otherwise, I’ve never had...
Jun 2nd
The Battle Is Lost
In the days leading up to the show’s season 4 finale, I wrote about the great Jack Vs. Locke...
Jun 1st
May
(Warning: “Lost” plot points revealed in this...
May 31st
Lost: Two Graphic For Viewers
The withdrawal-inducing absence of a new “Lost” last week allowed me to take a deep...
May 27th
“Why it’s Luke, and Obi-Wan, and my favorite,...
May 24th
Charlie Rules
On Friday, I took a tour of the Charlie Rose studio at the Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, thanks to...
May 22nd
Watch
Like virtually every red-blooded American who owned a television in the ’90s, it doesn’t...
May 21st
Caught Up In the Crossfire
Last Saturday I went to a friend’s housewarming party in Brooklyn. It started off innocently...
May 20th