My byline on an MSNBC essay about "The OC."
A mostly complete list of pieces I’ve published professionally, organized by publication, and in reverse chronological order.
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MSNBC + Boldtype + The Advocate + Salon + The Boston Globe + The Chicago Tribune + Slate + PopPolitics + OJR + Ironminds + Student.Com + The Slant + other publications, speeches
Boldtype
- Blindness by Jose Saramago / 10.04
- A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham / 7.04
- Raw Deal by Ken Smith / 5.04
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy / 4.04
The Advocate
- Tales of the Baghdad Blogger [Salam Pax’s “The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi”] / 1.20.04
- Before she went Greek [rerelease of two Mary Renault novels] / 7.22.03
- At Home With Warhol [Andy Warhol’s nephew James Warhola] / 4.15.03
- From Russes with love [exhibition of Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes artifacts] / 2.18.03
Salon
- Home decorating and other lies [behind the scenes of TLC’s “Trading Spaces”] / 11.26.02
- Whither reality TV? [television’s future post-Sept. 11, 2001] / 10.3.01
- “The Real World” refuses to grow up [a look at 10 years of MTV’s “The Real World”] / 7.3.01
- Don’t call it a comeback [representation of African Americans in prime-time] / 5.23.01
- What about laughs? [review of ABC’s “What About Joan”] / 3.27.01
- The ratings game [Arbitron’s ratings] / 11.27.00
- Boo! [review of MTV’s “Fear”] / 10.27.00
- Miss America or Miss ABC? / 10.17.00
- “Big Brother,” meet “Survivor”; “Survivor,” meet “The Real World” / 7.12.00
- Failing is fun! [review of startupfailures.com] / 5.9.00
- Geek love [fans try to save “Freaks & Geeks”] / 4.20.00
- Who really killed the radio star? [MTV’s millionth video] / 3.1.00
- Alpha Male Epsilon [essay on frat boy culture] / 2.23.00 (letters to the editor)
- Will success spoil Janeane Garofalo? / 1.26.00
- Is being addicted a choice? / 1.10.00
- View from the Top: Market Makers [interview with Peapod’s founders] / 1.10.00
- Obit: Mary Kay Bergman / 11.19.99
- Who surfs to be a millionaire? [review of iwon.com] / 11.16.99
- The Web’s plagiarism police / 6.14.99
- Internship hell / 2.17.99
- “Felicity” points to the Web / 2.12.99
The Boston Globe
- Me and E.T., page L13, Sunday Movies front page / 3.17.02
The Chicago Tribune
- Setting your sites on celebrity, Tempo, page 3D / 12.26.01 (unedited version)
- Reality of ‘Mole’ casting tryout / 5.24.01
Slate
- The Breakfast Table (with Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas) / 4.23.01 to 4.26.01
PopPolitics
- A Complex Fantasy [ABC’s Alias] / 1.22.02
Online Journalism Review
Ironminds
- Yeah, But Can She Cook? / 6.30.00
- What’s Wrong With Carpetbagging? / 6.2.00
- Vote Your Brain, Not Your Type / 5.19.00
- Presidents Are People Too / 5.4.00
- Clinton’s Digital Disconnect / 4.20.00
- Same Old Charade / 2.25.00
- Discrimination Is OK … When Votes Are at Stake / 2.11.00
- Convoluted Caucuses and MTV / 1.28.00
- Weighing the Polls / 1.14.00
Student.Com
- Heatwaves and Airwaves [summer TV preview] / 5.10.00
- So you wanna be a VJ? [MTV’s VJ3] / 5.3.00
- Leo’s neo-geo news adventure a big waste [Leonardo DiCaprio on ABC] / 4.26.00
- “Making The Band” makes the grade for reality-based TV [ABC] / 4.19.00
- Billy’s death gives new life to “Ally” [Fox’s "Ally McBeal"] / 4.12.00
- Political farce: “D.C.” does Washington [WB’S "D.C."] / 4.3.00
- Spring Breakout [MTV’s Spring Break 2000] / 3.29.00
- All 2Gether Now…. sing! [MTV’s “2Gether”] / 3.15.00
- They See Dead People [NBC’s “The Others”] / 1.24.00
- Ally’s Kid Cousin [Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle”] / 1.31.00
- The Realer World [MTV’s “True Life”] / 2.24.00
- ‘Quiz Show’ Redux [NBC’s “Twenty-One”] / 2.17.00
- Year of the Television [TV in 1999] / 1.3.00
- Elvis Has Left The Building [review of “Man on the Moon”] / 12.22.99
- Sense of “Snow” [review of “Snow Falling on Cedars”] / 12.22.99
- You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out [the movie “A Christmas Story”] / 12.20.99
- Stein…Stein…Stein… [Comedy Central’s “Win Ben Stein’s Money” and “Prime Stein”] / 12.13.99
- The Ghosts of Christmas Pat [TNT’s “A Christmas Carol”] / 12.6.99
- Terminator 2K [review of “End of Days”] / 11.30.99
- Maher Comes ‘Correct’ [ABC’s “Politically Incorrect”] / 11.29.99
- Million Dollar Bash [ABC’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and Fox’s “Greed”] / 11.17.99
- End of the World [Real World season wrap-up] / 11.17.99
- Office Killer [UPN’s “Dilbert”] / 11.10.99
- Aloha [column on “The Real World” #822] / 11.9.99
- Not a Bone to Pick [review of “The Bone Collector”] / 11.5.99
- Defending ‘McBeal’ [Fox’s “Ally McBeal”] / 11.3.99
- Cold Comfort [column on “The Real World” #821] / 11.2.99
- Reality Biters [a look at upcoming reality-TV shows] / 10.27.99
- Love Is A Burning Thing [column on “The Real World” #820] / 10.26.99
- Children’s Crusade [column on “The Real World” #819] / 10.19.99
- Tears R “Us” [review of “The Story of Us” movie] / 10.15.99
- Taking a Dive [column on “The Real World” #818] / 10.12.99
- Free Fallin’ [column on “The Real World” #817] / 10.5.99
- Out Man Out [column on “The Real World” #816] / 9.28.99
- Cruel Intentions [column on “The Real World” #815] / 9.14.99
- Bacon Gets His “Sixth” Degree [review of “Stir of Echoes” movie] / 9.10.99
- AfterMatt [column on “The Real World” #814] / 9.7.99
- Eighty-Sixed [column on “The Real World” #813] / 8.31.99
- Glass Shield [column on “The Real World” #812] / 8.24.99
- Keepin’ It Real! [column on “The Real World” #811] / 8.17.99
- I Don’t Want You (She’s So Heavy) [column on “The Real World” #810] / 8.10.99
- Waster’s Choice [column on “The Real World” #809] / 8.3.99
- Get Your Diet Straight [column on “The Real World” #808] / 7.27.99
- The Civilized ‘World’ [column on “The Real World” #807] / 7.20.99
- Wild, Wild ‘World’ [column on “The Real World” #806] / 7.13.99
- Mystery Dates [column on “The Real World” #805] / 7.6.99
- Uncut Spunk [review of “South Park” movie] / 7.1.99
- About Last Night… [column on “The Real World” #804] / 6.29.99
- Reality Teck [column on “The Real World” #803] / 6.22.99
- Hawaiian Bunch [column on “The Real World” #802] / 6.15.99
- Second ‘Powers’ [review of “Austin Powers II”] / 6.11.99
- Once On This Island [Universal Studios Islands of Adventure] / 5.20.99
- Bleeding Gums School [essay about a visit to the dentist] / 3.11.99
- Please Come to Our Games! Please! / 2.17.99
- Latex Night Reading [review of “Getting it On: a Condom Reader”] / 2.12.99
- Pardon Their Dust [campus construction] / 2.8.99
- Honor Thy Code [honor codes] / 1.25.99
- Off the Beep End [pagers and cell phones on college campuses] / 1.15.99
- You Say It’s Your Birthday [birthday discounts and where to find them] / 1.9.99
- College Media Blitz [1998 National Media Convention] / 11.25.98
- Hacker Heaven [Profile of John Vranesevich and AntiOnline.] / 11.03.98
- Campuses React to Shepard’s Death / 10.30.98
- Two Faces of Halloween / 10.29.98
- American Diversity 101 / 10.22.98
- Lower Rates, Open Records [Higher Education Reauthorization Act] / 10.8.98
- Ready or Not? [are colleges ready for the Y2K problem?] / 10.6.98
- School vacation [essay on going to college in Florida] / 9.30.98
- Click Here to Apply [Online application at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.] / 9.23.98
- Back to School Tech-Nos / 9.17.98
- Babble On [review of “Coming of Age in Babylon”] / 9.15.98
- Little girl glossed [review of Ever After] / 8.7.98
- Temporary hell / 8.3.98
- Show us the money [how schools use their endowments] / 7.30.98
- Not in the Cards [id card scam investigation] / 6.24.98
- The maddening crowd [experiences as a movie extra] / 4.9.98
- Laundry for everyone / 4.8.98
- Costly connections / 3.4.98
- The best man [review of the Wedding Singer] / 3.4.98
- Epidemic Eating Disorders / 1.20.98
The Slant
- The Grass Ain’t Always Greener: Radio in Central Florida / 6.26.98
- Give Kids the World (or at least $5000) [Sarah Maclachlan/ Barenaked Ladies concert review] / 12.24.97
- Toward a more asthetically pleasing world12.3.97
- You people drive like crap! / 5.22.97
- Comedy on the cutting edge / 5.18.97
- Don’t be a Wallflower [review of Wallflower concert] / 5.7.97
- The cult of Drew Garabo [an interview with the Real Radio 104.1 host] / 4.10.97
other publications, speeches
- Dinner [fiction, Random House’s boldtype.com short story contest runner-up] / 1.7.00
- Senior Commencement Address, Stetson University / 5.9.99
- Senior thesis — Digital Neighborhoods: Online Discussion Areas and the Changing Notion of Community. / 4.19.99
- “What Scouting Means to Me” speech, Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner honoring Congressman Porter Goss / 12.7.98