Eric Iversen

Beavis: Huh huh, like, what’s Seattle? Butthead: It’s this place where stuff is, like, really cool. I start with what I take not to be a radical assertion. Beavis and Butthead are, at the very least, supposed to represent a form of humor. People, from the local TV critic to ...

The music is generically edgy, synth-poppy with a dollop of minor chords and staccato percussion—it makes clear references to all the record industry styles MTV so benumbingly purveys, giving every target market a slice of acoustic pie to say, hey, this show’s for you. The ...

Dear Will, Just thought I’d drop you a line and bring you up to speed on what’s been going on with writing these days. Actually, it’s kind of been getting me down lately, and I just wanted to get some of this off my chest, you know, just bitch a little. Let’s see, ...

You know, Ben Franklin was the one who really started it. His relentlessly folksy “Almanacks” and his calculating “Autobiography” made him the ready midwife in the birthing of the venerable American practice of cynically manipulating the terms of public discussion to ...