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Humor & Opinion

What to Expect: The 39th Year (pdf)
Real Simple, July 2009

HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION)
McSweeney’s, July 30, 2008

Armrest Seating, Anyone?
World Hum, February 9, 2007

My Turn: By Any Other Name
Newsweek, August 24, 2006

RYAN SEACREST BREAKS BAD NEWS
McSweeney’s, May 24, 2006

Catch You Later, Or Not
Los Angeles Times, “Tell” essay, October 27, 2005

OVERHEARD AT THE FALL 2001 MICROPROCESSING DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN SAN JOSE, CA McSweeney’s, List, May 6, 2002

U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NEWS COVERAGE BY CANAL 4, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK . . .
McSweeney’s, November 9, 2000 (lower half of page)

Articles

Sleep Better Tonight
Body + Soul, May 2008
Cover story: Deciphering your sleep type to get more–and higher quality–rest.

What’s Safe or Scary On-Screen When You’re Expecting
The Washington Post, April 27, 2008
When to watch, and when to run as fast as your swollen ankles can carry you.

Salty Singalongs
The Washington Post, August 12, 2007
Sunday Source cover story on DC’s “sea chantey nights.”

Here Comes the Bride
The Washington Post, October 1, 2006
A breakdown of television’s best, worst and weirdest wedding reality shows.

In Your Wildest Dreams
Paste, August 2006
Profile of director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

In Good Company (pdf)
Texas Journey, March/April 2006
A mother and daughter forge family connections on a Baltic cruise.

‘Garden’ Helps Braff Bloom
Variety, January 24, 2006
Profile of actor Zach Braff

Of Mouse and Moon: Mark Kozelek Turns His Attention to Covers…Again
Paste, Dec 2005/Jan 2006

Oscar Contender Profiles: Shirley MacLaine and Toni Collette
Variety, December 12, 2005

Austin City Limits at 30: Celebrating an American Institution
Paste, August/September 2005

When Sadness Lingers (pdf)
Vim and Vigor, Summer 2005
Postpartum depression is much more than the “baby blues.”

The Odds Couple
Westways, May/June 2005
He likes to gamble. She doesn’t. Can they both find happiness in Las Vegas

Girl, Interrupted (pdf)
Mean magazine, April/May 2005
Profile of actress Alexis Bledel

Elliott Smith, 1969-2003
Salon, October 22, 2003
Despite his success, the fragile and brilliant alt-troubadour never seemed comfortable with his career — or his life

Saved by Siena
Salon, February 6, 1998
Lonely and sick and far from home, I learned the power of art, velvet slippers and human kindness.

Music Reviews
from LiveDaily.com 2003-2007

Arcade Fire
CD Review

Ian Astbury
Interview

Badly Drawn Boy
Live Review

Beck
Live Review

Belle & Sebastian
CD Review

David Byrne
CD Review

Cat Power
CD Review

Fiery Furnaces
Live Review

Fountains of Wayne
CD Review

Patty Griffin
CD Review