About This Cretin
I have been producing digital media since 1995, which makes me 117 in interweb years. You can peruse my unabridged, agonizingly self-aggrandizing curriculum vitae over @ LinkedIn. Or here’s the at-a-glance version:
WEBSITES I HAVE FOUNDED AND/OR RUN: (Partial List)
- Team Coco - Official Site Of That Nice Ginger-Pompadoured Fellow
- Eatocracy - Wherein CNN.com Does Food Deliciously
- The Frisky - Your Friendly Cosmo Antidote @ Turner Broadcasting
- JOKES.com - Now A Comedy Central Joint
- MAXIM Online - The Renowned Feminist Journal
- WHITEHOUSE.ORG - My Bush-Era Mental Breakdown
- GeorgeWBush.org - My Other Bush-Era Mental Breakdown
- CHICKENHEAD.COM - Sundry Offensive Juvenilia
- And lots and lots of other totally random and pointless one-offs.
My personal writing and web shenanigans, in particular, have received various inexplicable shout-outs over the years, including…
- “Hilarious” “A minor triumph” - The New York Times
- “Spot On” – BBC
- “Scathing, wickedly funny commentary” – Detroit Metro Times
- “Especially sharp parody” – Salon
- “In” – Vanity Fair
- “Web buffoon” - New York Post
- “Nasty” – Chris Matthews, MSNBC
- “Offensive, irreverent… bitingly funny” – Orlando Sentinel
- “John A. Wooden is Satan’s best friend.” – Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse
- “Hilarious, dead-on parody. Brilliantly subversive.” – About.com
- “Extremely funny… one of the best.” – Neal Pollack
- “Brilliantly hamfisted” – TIME
AWARDS:
- Winner: 2012 Webby Awards: Best Celeb/Fan Site, (TEAMCOCO.COM)
- Nominee: 2011 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Creative Achievement
In Interactive Media (TEAMCOCO.COM) - Winner: 2011 Webby Awards: Best Celeb/Fan Site, (TEAMCOCO.COM)
- Winner: 2011 SXSW Interactive Awards: Social Media (TEAMCOCO.COM)
- Winner: 2001-2006 DotComedy Awards (Five Years Running): Best Parody (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)
- Nominee: 2003 Webby Awards: Best Humor Site (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)
- Nominee: 2003 Utne Independent Press Award (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)
- Nominee: 2002 Webby Awards: Best Humor Site (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)
- Nominee: 2001 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival: Best Of The Web (CHICKENHEAD.COM)
- Winner: 2000 SXSW Interactive Awards: Best Humor Site (CHICKENHEAD.COM)
BOOKS & WHATNOT:
- The White House Inc. Employee Handbook (Penguin USA, 2003)
- Dear Dubya: A Snoop Inside the Presidential Mailbag (Chickenhead, 2006)
- Psychedelic Republicans Trading Cards (Chickenhead, 2003)
SCRIBBLING FOR HIRE: I’ve been known to occasionally write ha-ha for others, including LandoverBaptist.org, Public Radio International, and the late, great SUCK.com.
