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Nathan Rabin was the head writer of the Onion’s A.V. Club for two decades. He’s been around for fucking ever and has the links to prove it!
A.V. Club
Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory
Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club
THEN That’s What They Called Music
New Feature: Randy Sklar Picks His Favorite Isklarb
Bestcasts: Scott Aukerman picks his favorite Comedy Bang! Bang! episodes
Best Casts: Marc Maron picks his favorite WTF episodes
Best Casts: Scharpling & Wurster pick their favorite Best Show Gems
Bestcasts: Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist
Bestcasts: Jesse Thorn picks his favorite episodes from his Maximum Fun empire
Dissolve
Nathan Rabin Versus The IMDB 250
Career View Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Rotten Tomatoes
Esquire
Don't Call Jesse Camp's Comeback a Comeback. No, Seriously, Don't
Beyond Boogaloo: The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Cannon's Breakin' Movies
Vulture
Podcasts
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Nathan loves podcasts and podcasts have been pretty good to him. Here are some times when he totally talked into a microphone and they didn't erase the results.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Rabin coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in an essay about the movie “Elizabethtown” in 2007
The MPDG is defined as a fantasy figure who “exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”
I’m sorry for coining the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” - Salon, July 15, 2014
The Bataan Death March of Whimsy Case File #1: Elizabethtown - A.V. Club, Jan 25, 2007
Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls - A.V. Club, Aug 4, 2008
How I got ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ into the Oxford Dictionary - The Globe and Mail - Aug 28, 2015