2008

"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...

Draperism of the Week

“Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe — every woman is one of them.”               ...

The cozy Old Town Bar on 18th Street is fast becoming my...

Guns! Bombs! Textiles! Web 2.0!

Building ownership is something I’m not generally familiar with, much for the same reason I...

Seeing wrtier Robert Smigel in-character as his notorious...

If You See Only One British Comedian...

In the past two weeks, I’ve seen two films featuring British comedian Steve Coogan: Ben...

Chilean artist Carlos Sabogal has created a photo-realistic...

jeffrubinjeffrubin: …Next two paragraphs for The Wire fans only, especially those who have...

Curry In My Favor

Recently, my co-worker Sarah — apropo of nothing, mind you — wrote passionately about...

Me and some friends from college have been holding...

I was destroyed by my editor Jeff in a Super Chexx bubble...

Jeepers Creepers...

My editor and I have assembled a montage chronicling movie scenes in which one character digs his...

Listen

Chandler Bing and the "Subtle Art" of...

Toward the end of the 2000 movie “High Fidelity,” John Cusack’s love-struck...

Take That, Christian Slater!

My old roommate Robbie shot a movie in Phoenix over the summer (co-written by Logan Antill)....

Kanye West Bank

Early this May, the blog “What I Learned Today” posted an insightful article examining...

Genius Blog Post Explores National...

One relatively minor but incredibly enjoyable duty of my job at a humor website involves coming up...

On Sunday a news item on Patrick Swayze gave me the...

The "Enduring Awesomeness" Of Patrick...

This weekend, the New York Times took a break from reporting meaningless, trite news items like the...

Rednecks Turn Left

Although my residence in a state east of the Mississippi may hint otherwise, I’ve never had...

The Battle Is Lost

  In the days leading up to the show’s season 4 finale, I wrote about the great Jack Vs. Locke...

(Warning: “Lost” plot points revealed in this...

Lost: Two Graphic For Viewers

  The withdrawal-inducing absence of a new “Lost” last week allowed me to take a deep...

“Why it’s Luke, and Obi-Wan, and my favorite,...

Charlie Rules

  On Friday, I took a tour of the Charlie Rose studio at the Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, thanks to...

Caught Up In the Crossfire

Last Saturday I went to a friend’s housewarming party in Brooklyn. It started off innocently...