Vintage internet
Arriviste Press:
Barrelhouse Magazine: "The Tragedy of Karl Malone"
The Black Table:
- "Incoming! June 21, 2004."
- "Incoming! April 25, 2005."
- "The Week in Craig"
- "The Week in Craig: Dirty Slut Advice Club"
- "The Black List: A Random Review Of Everything, In Grade Form.
- "The Black List: The Redneck Revolution"
- "The Black List: I FeeL Pretty--At Least, I'd Like To"
- "The Black List: You Take the Good and Take the Bad"
- "The Black List: The Super-Boob Halftime Procrastination Spectacular"
- "The Black List: Can I Go Home Now?"
- "The Black List: Call in the Helper Monkeys!"
- "The Black List: Dishonor Roll"
- "The Black List: Houston, We Have an Irony"
- "The Black List: The Showgirls Epiphany"
- "We Want Matt Hooker For Governor Of California!"
- "A Super Waste Of Time? A Super Fun Thing To Watch? Five Women Wax Off On The Super Bowl"
- "In Celebration Of This Fine, Fine Day, Five Women Weigh In On What They Really Want For Valentine's Day -- Hard Liquor."
- " Springtime For Boobies! Our Panel Of Ladies Waxes Off On Breasts."
- "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. They're Hot For Teacher! Insert Solo Here."
- " These Ladies Don't Fear The Reaper: Girls On Death."
- "Our Ladies Reveal Their New Year's Resolutions -- For 2005."
- "Rooting For The Underdog: Women Wax Off On The Normal Guys Who Make 'Em Wild."
- "Leap Year: The Ladies Wax Off About What To Do With That Blasted Extra Day".
- "Springtime For Shithead: What Women Wish You'd Wear."
- "It's A Good Thing: Turn Offs That Turn The Ladies On."
- "Hot Town Summer In The Shitty: Girls On The Sunny Season."
- Waxing Off: Girls on the Sunny Season
- Incoming! Week of April 25, 2005
- Incoming! (Week of June 21, 2004)
- Waxing Off: What Women Wish You'd Wear
- Rooting for the Underdog: Waxing off on Unconventionally Hot Men
- Review: Handling Your Own Reviews on Amazon.com
- Waxing Off: I Don't Fear the Reaper. (Oh wait, that's a lie)
- Review: Celebrities Uncensored
- Review: The Paris Hilton Video
- "Black List: Tom's of Maine Deodorant"
- "We Want Matt Hooker For Governor of California!"
- "Waxing Off: Hot for Teacher"
- "The Black List: Brownie Bites and the UPS Store Signage"
- "The Black List: Ashton Kutcher's Hat"
- "The Black List: Atkins Advantage Bars"
- The Week in Craig's List (with Matt Tobey) Week of April 11
- "The Week in Craig" (Week Ending April 4, co-written by Matt Tobey)
- "Waxing Off: Springtime for Boobies"
- "In Celebration of This Fine, Fine Day, Five Women Weigh In ON What They Really Want for Valentine's Day--Hard Liquor" (hint: without me, there would be four women)
- "A Super Waste of Time? A Super Fun Thing to Watch? Five Women Wax Off on The Super Bowl"
CenterStage Chicago: "Things to Do in Chicago When You're Sober"
The Daily Beast:
"Dexter's Killer Season"
Dezmin's Archives:
- "Claire Zulkey: The Claire Zulkey Interview"
- "Employment Cover Letter from a Graduating College Senior"
- "Excerpts from Speeches I Have Prepared"
- "Hey Man"
- "Hybrid Word Fever"
- "My First Album"
- "My First Movie"
- "My First Season"
- "Prayer Cards and Hot Naked Action"
- "WFLD Fox 32's Lineup of Investigative Reports"
- "Words to Live By, According to Jim Croce"
- "Playing Like a Girl"
Flakmag:
- "Muscle Mania"
- "Queer Eye for the Straight Girl"
- Review of Unemployment
- September 11 Feature: "Memories and Memorials"
- "September 11: My Generation"
- "Snow in April."
- Review of Childhood, "The Ugly Years"
- "Amazing Sea-Monkeys"
- Weblog: "Why They Hate Us"
GhotiMag: "An Invitation"
Haypenny:
- "Earl, the Lonely Lighthouse Keeper, Goes on a Date"
- "Earl, the Lonely Lighthouse Keeper, Receives His Annual Report"
- "Gut"
- "How 'Bout These Kids?"
- "Waxing Philosophical"
The Huffington Post:
Kittenpants: "Observations"
Knotmag.com:
- "Rock the Casbah with a Rock Hard Bod"
- "Until Finals Do We Part"
- "A Tale of Two Catholics": Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- "Polite to the End, and Afterwards"
- "Post-College Cathies"
Knowumsayin'? (for some reason the links never printed out so you will have to fill in the blanks on some of these old pieces):
- "The Baseball Contraction"
- "Class Syllabus, Fall, 2002"
- "Living in a State of Alert"
- "Sarah Hughes"
- "Situation-Appropriate Mad Libs"
- "What to Do in Case I Go Missing"
- "You Say You Want a Revolution?"
- "Stupor Bowl"
Lost Brain: "Chantilly Lace: the Long Lost Lyrics, in their Entirety"
McSweeneys:
Reviews of New Food: "Cherimoya" (scroll down about halfway for it)
Mediabistro:
Meomore:Â "Fun Fun Fun"
Midnight Mind Magazine:Â "In Praise of the Hangover" (this might be the worst scan of all time)
Mississippi Review: "Blaming J.Lo" (in print only)
The Morning News:
NewCity Chicago:
Opium Magazine:
- "The Disappointed"
- "How Each of the Products in My Shower Caddy Will Affect Our Relationship Dear Boy"
- "Occupational Haikus"
- "The Rules, II"
- "Seven Messes and How to Read Them"
- "Small Spaces: A Christmas Story"
- "Some Delayed Responses"
- "Taxicab Confession"
- "Things I Realize I Do Not Miss About College, In Outline Form"
- "Three Variations on My Day"
- "Torrefazione Peanut Butter Cookies"
Parenthetical Note: "On More Highly Evolved Teeth"
Professor Barnhardt's Journal:
Quality Lit: "Lesser-Known Drinking Games"
Reinventing the World:
Sweet Fancy Moses:
- "Fat: the New Thin"
- "Hef and Me"
- "Please Help Us Forge the Illusion of Normalcy"
- "Tru Love"
- "What I'm Thankful For"
This is Grand: "Unrequited Love in the Morning"
Tribune Media Services (things I wrote about college whilst in college):
- "At William Woods U., It Pays to Play"
- "Clinton visit gets little attention from Italian town, students notice"
- "Economics text mixes fiction and instruction"
- "First lady keynote speaker at Georgetown University"
- "Fraternities across the U.S. forced to dry up their acts"
- "Georgetown students plan bike trip to fight pediatric AIDS "
- "Illini mascot debate rages on"
- "Search for slob yields winner"
- "Sesame Street's "Sunny Days" available at Georgetown"
- "Slaves to the web: students becoming web addicts"
- "Student's book mandatory reading at Western Carolina U"
- "Students urge officials to adopt a more strict code of conduct"
- "Thanksgiving abroad just not the same as turkey back home"
- "Go ahead do it: tell your parents you love them"
- "Studying abroad provides more truths than cliches"
Two Note Solo: "Beard"
Vista Magazine: "Tying a Tuscan Knot" (Fall 2000)
Ãœber:
Yankee Pot Roast: "The Gradual Decline of the "I Love the..." Sidebars
The Hoya:Â (college newspaper columns scanned awkwardly into PDFs)
- "Senior Job Hunt is Not as Glamorous As it Seems"
- "Politics Should Match Easygoing Nature of Subway Series"
- "Though Campuses Differ, Students Stay the Same"
- "Non Sono Americana"
- "'Hoya Saxa' Experiences Too Far Apart"
- "I Can't Believe We're Seniors!"
- "Veteran Senior Shares Experiences on Life as a Georgetown Hoya"
- "Two Semesters is Better than One"
- "Traveling Abroad with Parents"
- "Off the Beaten Path"
- "When in Rome Watch as the Americans Do?"
- "At Mama Rosa's in Italy, Bed Bugs Do Bite"
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