My Dumb Quarter Century — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Twenty Three Years After the Release of American Movie I Find Myself Relating to Mark Borchardt on a Painful Level

In the latest entry in My Dumb Quarter Century I revisit American Movie, a movie about ambition, sadness and that spooky-ass Midwestern Gothic.

My Dumb Quarter CenturyNathan RabinOctober 14, 2022American Movie

In 1998, Now That's What I Call Music! was the White-Hot Epicenter of the Pop Music World

In the second entry in My Dumb Quarter Century, a 25 part column about my two and a half decades as a professional pop culture writer I take a fond, nostalgic look back at Now That’s What I Call Music! and The A.V Club column I wrote about the popular pop compilation series.

My Dumb Quarter CenturyNathan RabinAugust 22, 2022Backstreet Boys, Radiohead, Spice Girls, Marcy Playground

My Dumb Quarter Century: In 1997, Nothing Rocked My World like Scharpling & Wurster's "Rock, Rot & Rule"

In the first of 25 essays on important art and entertainment from the quarter century I have been writing professionally, I write about my deep love and reverence for Scharpling & Wurster’s Rock, Rot & Rule.