My Writing

The Daily Beast

The Red Hot Christian Blockbuster (2008) Decoding Kirk Cameron's Fireproof
The Biggest Names in Sex (2009) Why we still need Playboy, or something like it

Gear

The Ultimate Movie Collection: Christmas Edition (1999)

GQ

No Strings Attached: A Survivor's Memoir (1999) Whatever happened to Howdy Doody's brother?
The Trendspotting Generation (1998) A meta trend story

McSweeney's

Media Moments (1998-2003) A year or two later, these would have been blog posts
Flops! (1999) Up close and personal with Broadway disasters

Modern Humorist

Star Saga: Inside the Making of the Star Saga Saga (2000) An oral history of a thinly-disguised sci-fi franchise
Purple Dragon Lunchbox, Mr. President (2001) The West Wing on drugs
Hit Me, My Lovely: A Mystery Incorporating the Fifty Most Popular Internet Search Terms of the Past Year (2000)
Harry Potter and the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) J.K. Rowling meets Dave Eggers
The Freakiest Geek (2001) An early interview with Judd Apatow
Survivor Spoilsports (2000) Relive the tedium of the second season of Survivor.
Spit Take (2000) Relive the tedium of the 2000 Republican and Democratic presidential conventions.

New York

Who Hearts Huckapoo? (2005) Manufacturing a prefab girl group

New York Press

Ironic (1996) This evisceration of Alanis Morissette's 1996 hit song is as fresh as it was in 1996, give or take fifteen years
Too Young To Know: The Selling of Sassy (1994) A eulogy/autopsy for one of the best magazines of the 1990s

The New York Times

While My Guitar Gently Beeps (2009) The making and meaning of The Beatles:Rock Band
The Play's the Thing (2007) The artistic potential of video games
Ten Great Christian Rock Songs (2008) A playlist, with musical accompaniment
Let Women Compete for Best Actor (2002)
Phantoms (2002) Op-Art from the first anniversary of 9/11
Must C-Span TV (2004) Formerly-topical humor

The New Yorker
The Good Book Business (2006) Why publishers love the Bible, with slide show
Sand Men (2007) On playgrounds and sandboxes
Hip for Him (2006) Jay Bakker moves to Brooklyn
Cyber City (2005) New York as a video game
One Billion (2005) It's the not the number of people who watch the Oscars
Why Know? (2004) The war on Alfred Kinsey
To The Editor (2004) The kids who deciphered the Times's formula
The Borat Doctrine (2004) Why Kazakhstan hates him
The Pet Goat Approach (2004) What George Bush was reading on 9/11, and why
A Book in You (2004) The agent to the bloggers
A Reluctant Poster Girl (2002) Another way lottery ads lie to you
Why American Kids Don't Consider Harry Potter an Insufferable Prig (1999)

The (London) Observer

In Bed With Fidel (1993) Profile of a would-be assassin

Playboy

Bone Up Your Shakespeare (2001) The Complete Porno Films of the Bard of Avon

Radical Society

E minem Vs. America (2003) Eminem takes sides in the war on terror

Radosh.net

The PowerPoint Anthology of Literature (2002)

Relevant

Outsider's Guide to the Christian Subculture (2008) A non-Christian's five weirdest discoveries

Salon

Moore is Less (1997) Why the left can do without Michael Moore
The Devil's Music (2005) When a fan of Christian rock kills
Harry Potter: The Digital Remix (2004) Introducing "Wizard People, Dear Reader"
The New York Times' Refer Madness (1997) The New York Times doesn't trust this new Internet thing
Wow! It Fits In a Box (1997) Digital hype 1.0
Like Watching Ice Freeze (1998) The Winter Olympics on TV

Slate

The Pledge of Allegiance: The PowerPoint Version (2004)
The August 6, 2001 President's Daily Brief: The PowerPoint Version (2004) I know you don't quite remember what this was now but it was all the talk of April, 2004
John Kerry's Military Records: The PowerPoint Version (2004) This also was in the news
My Life, by Bill Clinton: The PowerPoint Version (2004)

Spirit

The Science of ZZZZZZZs (2009) Can 16 gadgets give you one good night's sleep?

Spy

Born Again, Forever Dead (1991) Evangelicals vs. Deadheads
USA Tomorrow (1993) Are we the next Bosnia-Herzegovena?
The Spy Tournament (1993) Battle of the messiahs
Celebrity Book Signings Observed (1993)
More Authors' Book Signings Observed (1992)

Stim

A Very Special Webster: The Devil's Playground (1996) The shortlived Stim was one of the first webzines, itself a fairly shortlived coinage. My monthly column, which Webzines had back then, riffed on dumb websites, of which there were a lot even then.
A Very Special Webster: Oh Sandy, My Darling (1996) On the strange online popularity of Sandra Bullock
A Very Special Webster: Making Me Sick (1996) Health and stuff
A Very Special Webster: Ferret-Face (1996) On the strange online popularity of ferrets
A Very Special Webster: The Grudge (1996) I'm sure all these people found that creating a Web site solved their problems
A Very Special Webster: Safe Surfing (1996) The first sentence was actually a provocative statement for its time
A Very Special Webster: Star Trek, The Web Generation (1996) Some Trekkies are still mad about this one. Which was, of course, the point
A Very Special Webster: Searching for the Truth (1997) If words like "X-Files" and "HotBot" flood you with waves of late-90s nostalgia, you'll want to read this, maybe
A Very Special Webster: Les Memes Choses (1997) The French are funny
Some Girls: In Praise of Skanky Chicks (1997) If Maxim was around then, this article might have gotten me hired. Looks like I put a lot of research into the sidebar too.
Bemused By All The Bemusement (1997) I take on a pet peeve: overuse of the word bemused in hack journalism. Hard to believe Stim folded, huh?

Suck

Endsville, Postponed (1998) What if Frank Sinatra had lived?
Skin-Deep Thoughts (1997) Christy Turlington's deep thought

The Weekly Standard

The Village Idiot (1995) Unkind thoughts on the 40th anniversary of The Village Voice