The A.V Club — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

This Vintage My World of Flops Piece of Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign Has Aged In a Really Interesting Way

My World Of Flops returns with a bleakly comic post-mortem on the biggest political debacle of the millennium (excuse me, WILLenium), Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 Presidential campaign

A Corey Feldman-Led Rock N Roll High School Sequel Was Never Going to Be Good But It Didn't Have to Be This Bad

Feld-Month continues with Rock n' Roll High School Forever, a movie that asked why have the Ramones and P.J Soles when you can have Corey Feldman? It's a rocking Feld-Month spectacular!

The Notorious MTV Prank Show H8R Confusingly Posited Nobodies Who Criticize Obnoxious Celebrities Online as Bullies Who Must Be Taken Down a Notch

In this piece collected in The Joy of Trash, toxic celebrities get their revenge on random people who dislike them in the appalling reality boondoggle H8R.

Caitlyn Jenner is Running for Governor of California, Which May Be the Worst Idea Ever

You don’t need to watch all 16 episodes of Caitlyn Jenner’s reality show I Am Cait to know that its subject is singularly unqualified to be the governor of California but it sure doesn’t hurt!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinMay 12, 2021Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner, reality television, The A.V Club, Califonia, Politics

The Travolta/Cage Project #56 The Thin Red Line (1998)

Terence Malick returned to filmmaking with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, a towering masterpiece completely ruined by John Travolta’s weird mustache.

I Kind of Miss Top Ten Lists, But Not Enough to Actually Ever Do One Again

Like so many elements of my olds jobs and my old life, and I kind of loved and kind of hated everything that went into the year-end top 10 list-making process.

The Big Whoop, Freelancer CornerNathan RabinDecember 10, 2020The A.V Club, The Dissolve, Sundance

Happy Third Birthday, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place!

Happy birthday, you beautiful website, and all the people who make it possible (including YOU!)

Being The Boss

I never set out to be my own boss but fate had other plans for me.

The Big Whoop, Freelancer CornerNathan RabinFebruary 25, 2020The A.V Club, The Dissolve, pop culture media

Fear, Anxiety and the Over-Saturation Theory

If you are stressed out about one thing in your life the answer, paradoxically, might just be introducing a whole bunch MORE stressors into your already frenzied existence.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 30, 2020failure, psychology, The Dissolve, The A.V Club

The Decade That Was or Holy Shit, I Did Good!

Though it felt at times like ten solid years of uninterrupted failure and rejection, it turns out I actually accomplished a fuck-ton of impressive things over the past decade.