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New Humor Piece: Tying the Interfaith Knot

I've got a new humor piece at Barnes & Noble imagining the world's most interfaith wedding ceremony.This excerpt makes more sense in context, but it's my favorite paragraph in the piece, so here it...

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The iMop 5: Buckets Sold Separately

My latest on The Huffington Post. Presenting the iMop 5. First leaked on Washable.com. Perfect for social wetworking. And can clean up even the largest spills from the iMop FrappStore. Store all of...

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Entering The Academy

I've got a new piece on Barnes & Noble inspired by a conversation with a friend about the nursery school application process, which sounds TERRIBLE, but at least they don't make the two-year-olds...

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Temple Beth El Dorado

Matthew David Brozik and I put together a fictional synagogue bulletin that we're very proud of.  If you've ever read a synagogue bulletin, and want to read one that is poking gentle, satirical fun at...

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Binders Literally Full of Actual Women

Over at The Huffington Post.... All about where Mitt Romney actually likes to store his women.  Or something like that.  If you watched the second presidential debate...Here's the link.

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Horses, Bayonets, Cannonballs, and Sharp, Pointy Rocks

I've got a new piece on The Huffington Post about the third presidential debate:NARRATOR: Fewer ships. Fewer horses. And more games downloaded from the iTunes app store by our military personnel than...

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A Friendly Change To Our Access Policy

I'm particularly proud of my newest humor piece, over at Feathertale, which posits a new solution to the problem of free riders on the Internet: a technology code-named FRANK, and actually named FRANK,...

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Thank You For Being My Health Care Proxy

I've got a new piece on The Bygone Bureau satirizing the health care proxy.  If no one else has satirized health care proxies... perhaps there's a good reason.  Quick teaser:1. If I am conscious, but...

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Cabin Pressure

Satirizing the airline safety lecture:Our Academy Award-winning crew, trained to act as if this flight meets all FAA safety regulations, is currently coming through the aisle, looking to ensure that...

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Temple Beth El Dorado is back for Chanukah

...with a brand-new parody synagogue bulletin, complete with an invite to the 18th Annual Chanukah Dinner-Dance, Torah Auction, Latke-palooza, and Hoop-of-Burning-Oil Children's Toss.Here's the...

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Your Workplace Holiday Party

My latest at Barnes & Noble, just in time for the holidays:Please enjoy this delicious spread of food paid for with the money that used to fund our health insurance plan. It might make you sick,...

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2013 eBook Preview

My latest at Barnes & Noble..."January 22 -- "Inside The Inauguration," an exhaustive, insider's look at Barack Obama's second Presidential inauguration, set to be published just twenty-four hours...

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Weather or Not

My latest, over at The Big Jewel, about The Weather Channel's purchase of Weather Underground and the nonsensification of weather reporting.“You know there are people out there just waiting for clouds...

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My Girlfriend (A Manti Te'o Satire)

My latest on The Huffington Post... I met my girlfriend on Twitter. Our first date we stayed up half the night retweeting tweets and creating new hashtags.... We once stayed up all night on Facebook,...

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Uncle Gets a Name

My latest adventure babysitting my 20-month-old niece, over at Kveller:I carefully coaxed her favorite stuffed animal of the moment, Mo the Cow (short for Mooey!), out of her hands and onto the table...

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Friends, Classmates, Donors

My latest at Barnes & Noble is an e-mail exchange between the head of fundraising for the 10th anniversary college reunion class and a guy who doesn't want to give a donation.If you've ever been...

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How To Internet for Writers

I really like my latest piece on The Bygone Bureau, "How To Internet For Writers." "Welcome to How To Internet for Writers, our workshop on how you can most effectively use social media to promote...

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Frequently Asked Questions About Girl Scout Cookies

My latest at The Huffington Post:3. What parts of girls are used in the making of Girl Scout Cookies?Contrary to popular belief, Girl Scout Cookies do not currently contain any parts of actual girls....

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"My Grandmother Reviews The Medication At The Bottom of Her Purse"

My newest piece, over at theNewerYork's Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature.The Round Blue One:“This one is very good. I think it may be for my memory, but I’m not sure. It might be for my...

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Artisanal Preservington, New York

My favorite thing I've written so far in 2013 is about hipsters moving to the suburbs, for the Barnes & Noble Review:"Every train is now a hybrid, and made mostly from corn. You just hop on board,...

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