My Latest New Yorker Piece
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/helicopter-parents-are-last-years-model
Lexicon for a Pandemic
“Maskhole,” “body Zoom-morphia,” and more neologisms for coronavirus communication.
Twenty-seven MAGA Definitions to Send It Off
The words M,A,G & A need some rehabilitation. Let’s get started!
Sideline Interview With Sisyphus
In the 1/13/20 issue. It’s not every writer who gets their life story told in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/pre-game-interview
Are You A Robot Or A Human? Let’s See!
Before finalizing your purchase, we need you to prove your humanity by passing this test created by CAPTCHA, the wonderful program that protects websites with tests that humans can pass but bots cannot. And the best part is: It’s completely operated by bots! Talk about making lemonade out of lemons! (As a bot myself I can’t […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Next Movies
“Inglorious Seabees”: A crew of renegade sailors thwart the attack on Pearl Harbor, shooting down the Japanese planes while bare-footed nurses cheer them on. “Once Upon a Time…In the Midwest”: At Kent State in 1970, a group of Chinese transfer students go ninja on the Ohio National Guard, saving a group of shoeless co-eds — […]
Always Too Soon: Writing Sketch Comedy in the Trump Era
This is a piece is recently wrote for the New Yorker about the challenge of writing comedy in the Trump Error, I mean Error, I mean…ERA! (Spell-check is sometimes pretty smart.)
My Apology For Immediate Release (A Title For Which I Apologize)
It would be so easy to blame it on my being insulated by my wealth and privilege. But I refuse to do that, and the assistant I’m dictating this to feels the same way.