Articles Written By Kevin Fanning
Kevin Fanning has been a TMN Contributing Writer since 2002. He is constantly starting new projects that never get finished. His favorite season is fall, but according to his color chart he is a winter. He keeps a strict account of his various websites and internet-based miscellanea at kevinfanning.com. He symbolizes hope.
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Personal Essays
How the Dead Live
There’s a peculiar odor to burning hope—it’s the smell of exhaust fumes, human sweat, and a fast-food container interred under a seat cushion.
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Gallery
Baby’s First Internet
Not sure how to explain the internet to your young ones? Presenting a series of nursery rhymes to teach children how to comport themselves on the online.
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Stories
How Everything Turned Out
When refugees from another planet make contact and ask for help, the earth’s web geeks should help them, right? KEVIN FANNING tells a tale of Non-Earthers, online social networks, and memorable sunsets.
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An Online Petition to Save the Redwoods
Part Three
Continuing to pore through Charlotte’s blog leads to some strange revelations, surprising moves, and a conclusion, of sorts.
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An Online Petition to Save the Redwoods
Part Two
Discovering a co-worker’s blog means having to find out if you’ve been written about. Along the way, however, you will learn things you weren’t supposed to know.
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An Online Petition to Save the Redwoods
Part One
In the first of a three-part fiction series, a co-worker exhibits intriguing new qualities, and life at the office gets shaken up.
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Books
The Heart Is Also a Furnace
I imagine Magdalen Powers living by herself in a tiny cottage in the middle of a deep forest. Birds and wolves prepare breakfast while she sleeps. During the day she...
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Music
Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
I will forever remember The Like as the band that rocked so hard it made me stop caring about Liz Phair's downturn. Their new album, Are You Thinking What I'm...
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Web
Popjustice
The best blog about British pop music that you're not reading is Popjustice. The writing is so hilarious and well crafted, it'll spoil you for all other music blogs. Haven't...
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Things
The Clove Hitch
Want to impress those bougie jerks down at the marina? Skip the overhand knots and girth hitches favored by landlubbers. The proper way to moor your skiff is with a...
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The Non-Expert
Worried About Celebrities
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week: Sudden weight loss and sudden engagements abound. We take to the streets to find out which Hollywood celebrity’s out-of-control behavior is causing people the most anxiety.
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Behind the Scenes
Untitled Fall Project
What to do when you and your sister are worth billions, on the brink of adulthood, and then your brand new movie flops? Go to college? Our Los Angeles reporter goes undercover to discover the starlets’ new plans.