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Articles & Essays

Published in: Cosmopolitan, The Dictionary of American History (Scribner), Inside.com, McSweeney's, Might, Modern Humorist, Mother Jones, PBS Online, Pindeldyboz, P.O.V., Salon, San Francisco Examiner, Western Edition, Wired 

 


Mother Jones 

Seed Central
A company that lets you choose your sperm 
is a window to our desires

San Francisco Examiner

Pileup on the Info Highway
Paperless office? Not a chance with compulsive e-mail printing

Wired

Copycataclysm
Do you know what CC: really stands for?

Salon

Call to Distraction
How to tell the difference when there’s no difference to tell

McSweeney's 

1. Authors Whose Names You Can Say While Eating Corn on the Cob
2. Authors Whose Names You Can Say While Chewing Gum

Might

Decimating the 4th Dimension
At last, a sensible proposal for switching 
our clocks and calendars to the metric system

Growing Holistic
Rogaine and other ancient Chinese secrets

The Grisham
An author comes to terms with his titles

24 Hours on a High-Cyber Diet
All the hype and twice the Gore

Modern Humorist

FAQ: The Enron Scandal

Unraveling the unravel-able

 

The Reorient Express

How Amtrak will survive its budget cuts

 

The Fuzzy Menace

Decoding Al Qaeda's subliminal rhetoric

 

Oscar Verbosity

Have statue, will blather

Co-written with Nick Nadel

Comments/links to article on USA Today, Film Score Monthly, Moviemusic.com

 

Little Gray Book Lecture Series

Elegant Coping Devices

Grieving is easy with these royal treatments

 

PBS Online - Thirteen/WNET

Essays, articles and classroom exercises

• The 1900 House
       - Hmm, What's This Doing in the Medicine Cabinet?
       - The Tight and the Itchy
       - Laundry Lamented
       - Interview with Joyce Bowler
• The American President
       - Jimmy Carter - Balance Betrayed
       - Zachary Taylor - The Brunt of Reluctance
       - Martin Van Buren - Son of a Bartender
• Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
       - UN's Akashi: "We were there to keep the peace, not to enforce it"
       - Classroom Exercise: Fear and its Role in Discrimination

Inside

Samples from my daily column on Inside.com


• Moby: I'm a loser, baby--not like Ricky Martin
• Taliban: Just say 'no' to Leonardo coif

• Busy afterlife for Frida Kahlo
• Sir Paul's squirrel is pretty in pink 
• AND THIS: Jesus Christ, George Lucas, and Mike Raffino of Unband

"Salmagundi"

Japanese TV Takes It All Off!
Tuning into Asia’s steamiest broadcast fare
 
 

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