More Writing

Humor! Etc.

Inside the Facebook H.Q.
The New Yorker

Hidden Camera: Trader Joe’s Edition
The New Yorker

The Mom From ‘The Cat in the Hat’ Finally Speaks
The New York Times

Potty Training in 243 Easy Steps
Parents

Mom Wanted (pdf)
Parents

Everybody Eats
Desert Companion

The Disgraced-Public-Figure Holiday Form Letter
Slate

Dan Brown, Annoying Facebook Friend
The Huffington Post

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

Armrest Seating, Anyone?
World Hum

My Turn: By Any Other Name
Newsweek

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


McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

TEN THINGS TO NEVER SAY TO A STAY-AT-HOME VIKING

YOU ARE A GRAVY BOAT

GOLDILOCKS REVIEWS THE SUNSHINE MARY JANE PUMP ON ZAPPOS

OTHER THINGS ON MY LIST BESIDES YOUR KISS

MOM TAKES CHILDREN’S SONGS LITERALLY

HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION)

RYAN SEACREST BREAKS BAD NEWS

OVERHEARD AT THE FALL 2001 MICROPROCESSING DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN SAN JOSE, CA

U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NEWS COVERAGE BY CANAL 4, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK . . .


Entertainment & Travel

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

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

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

In Your Wildest Dreams
Paste
Profile of director Michel Gondry

In Good Company (pdf)
Texas Journey

‘Garden’ Helps Braff Bloom
Variety

Oscar Contender Profiles: Shirley MacLaine and Toni Collette
Variety

Austin City Limits at 30: Celebrating an American Institution
Paste

Girl, Interrupted (pdf)
Mean magazine
Profile of actress Alexis Bledel

Elliott Smith, 1969-2003
Salon

Saved by Siena
Salon