i’m also a comedy and editorial writer for almost everywhere, including some formally reported work.
here's the best of it, i think:
THOUGHTS ON “INTERNET BAD,” THAT SHOW ABOUT THE EVILS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT IS STREAMING ONLINE (The New Yorker)
THE AMERICAN GIRL PANDEMIC COLLECTION (The New Yorker)
Displacement as Beautification: Hostile Architecture to Displace the Unhoused (Knock.LA)
"Make Them Leave" (Paste Magazine)
A History of the Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band (Motherboard)
Good News, They Let Dumb Sluts Into Mensa Now (Paste)
My Husband Tim, Who Is My Husband (Splitsider)
The Saddest Puppet in LA (Paste Magazine)
Girlbosses and the Stupid Idiot Men Who Welcome Them (Paste)
I Was The Other Woman But Now I'm Accidentally Locked in a Public Library and My Phone is Dead (Reductress)
Heel to Face: One Woman's Attempt to Become a Wrestling Fan (Paste)
Mommy's Big Night at the Monster Truck Rally (Inverse)
Old and Alone: The Epidemic of Elder Abuse in America (Vice)
Los Angeles is a Hell That Not Even Santa Can Escape (Inverse)
Comedian Ali Wong Changes Perceptions, Diapers (Playboy Magazine October 2016 Issue)
I Saw 'Shrek: The Musical' For Five Days, This Is My Story (Boston.com)
I Found My Law and Order Doppelganger and We're in Love Now (Inverse)
then if you're really in a reading mood, here’s some more.
For The New Yorker:
THOUGHTS ON “INTERNET BAD,” THAT SHOW ABOUT THE EVILS OF TECHNOLOGY THAT IS STREAMING ONLINE
For Reductress:
I Was The Other Woman But Now I'm Accidentally Locked in a Public Library and My Phone is Dead
Look Nurturing as Fuck in Pictures with Your Sister's Kids
7 Foolproof Ways to Remember Your Intern's Name (It's Jonah)
8 Signs Your Sophisticated Cyborg Boyfriend is Glitching
For Man Repeller:
How Are Teachers Talking About Trump?: A Round Table Discussion
What 20 Teachers Had to Say About Betsy DeVos
Important Perspectives from Those Affected by DACA
For Splitsider:
Attention Passengers: The Baldwin Brothers are Sitting on the Wing of the Airplane
My Husband Tim, Who Is My Husband
For VICE:
Old and Alone: The Epidemic of Elder Abuse in America
Hooking Up With Roommates (Illustrator)
For Motherboard:
A History of the Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band
For Paste Magazine:
Mensa series:
I Will Not Get Into Mensa and Who Cares (I Do)
Good News, They Let Dumb Sluts Into Mensa Now
Mensa Update: Mensa Is Trying to Kill Me
Why Am I In a Hotel Room with Mensa?
Dispatch from the Mensa Annual Gathering
#metoo series:
Make Them Leave
Make Them Leave 2: In Which They Come Back
#MeToo Has Opened Our Eyes To Abuse, But Nothing Has Changed
WWE series:
Heel to Face: One Woman's Attempt to Become a Wrestling Fan
Heel to Face 2: Pink Pussy Butterfly
Heel to Face 3: The Search for a Coherent Storyline
Heel to Face 4: This Movie Starring the Big Show, or That Movie Starring the Big Show?
Heel to Face 5: Gotta Make an Entrance
Heel to Face 6: A Love Letter to The New Day
Heel to Face 7: Let Me Explain These Wrestling Moves that I Totally Understand to You
Heel to Face 8: The Subculture Stepbrothers of the WWE and Comedy
Heel to Face 9: I Made You a WWE Coloring Book, You Bimbos
Heel to Face 10: Daddy Issues
Heel to Face 11: Your WWE Advent Calendar
Heel to Face 12: Has the WWE Grown Up at All Since the Last Wrestlemania?
Heel to Face 13: No no no! No no no!
Heel to Face 14: Wrestlemania Etiquette: A Proposal
Heel to Face 15: The Hellish Big Show Fan Fiction That No One Was Asking For
Heel to Face 16: Wrestlemania is Here and the Big Show is Mine
Heel to Face 17: WRESTLEMANIA: THE FINAL POST
Other stuff for Paste that I liked doing:
Every Time I See the Backstreet Boys Something Terrible Happens
A Visit to Cassadaga, the Spiritualist Capital of the World
Falling Out of Love with Tonya Harding
Migos Work Hard and Only Play EA, Apparently
Inside the Abyss of a Pornographic Anime Video Game
Creatures and the Women Who Want to Bang Them
Every Horny, Calamitous Thought I Had at Spongebob: The Musical
The Valentine’s Drama with My Boyfriend the Snowboard Emoji
The Fish from Shape of Water is Hot and Please Give Him an Oscar
Andy Serkis: Hollywood's Genius Shapeshifter
Jessica Williams: Self-Care Through the Sims
Logan Everett is an American Girl Doll Who's My Boyfriend Now, Jealous?
The New Ken Doll: Acquainting Myself With the New Male Ideal
American Women: A Proposal for an American Girl Reboot
For Every Vice in Vegas, There's an Equal and Opposite Pinball Machine
Arm Wrestling With Destiny: The Los Angeles Lady Arm Wrestlers
For Knock.LA:
Displacement as Beautification: Hostile Architecture to Displace the Unhoused
Citizen Grassroots Efforts Ramp Up as COVID Rages On
Heidi Marston Created a Legacy of Toxicity at LAHSA and the VA
For Inverse:
Adults Can Go to Chuck E. Cheese Alone So I Stayed There All Day
Cinematic Schadenfreude and the Enduring Appeal of Bad Movies (SAGIndie longread of the week)
It's a New Year in Harmony Grove
Mommy's Big Night at the Monster Truck Rally
This is My Seventh Time Seeing Shrek: The Musical But My First Time Seeing It in Malibu, So...
Half of LA Came Out to See My Weird Mom
I Found My Law and Order Doppelganger and We're in Love Now
The First Male American Girl Doll is Historic and Also Hot
Los Angeles is a Hell That Not Even Santa Can Escape
Make Toys Great Again: Trump and the Novelty Toy Industry
An Ode to Brandon Fraser
Asperger's Are Us profile
Interviewing Men Who Scold Me For Not Liking Weird Al
'Dishonored 2' Is Good, I Am A Goddamn Disgrace
Lunch with the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists of LA
For Fast Company:
The saddest puppet in LA
For xoJane:
IT HAPPENED TO ME: My Face Turned Huge
For BDCwire and Boston.com:
I Saw 'Shrek: The Musical' For Five Days, This Is My Story
Here's a 3000 word piece I wrote on Spongebob.
Brad Dowdy and His Love Affair With, Um, Pens
Valentines for the Painfully Alone
Performing C-Sections on Disney Princesses and Other Cool Things I Did Today
Mercury in Retrograde Cootie Catcher
An Illustrated Guide of the Not-So-Diverse Oscar Voters
'Space Jazz' And The Bizarre Musical Legacy of L. Ron Hubbard
New Harry Potter Illustrations
For Serial Optimist:
The Cover Letter, or An Act of Passive Aggression
For Allston Pudding:
WLLMSBRG Shreds in Super 88 Parking Lot
WLLMSBRG Sells Out, Fuck These Guys
WLLMSBRG Breaks Up For Real, Forget What We Said They Were Great
Scott Stapp @ Fenway Park 3/31
The Cry of The Unhassled Buttcheek
that's it for the writing page. i left some stuff out that i think sucked. i hope you had some fun.