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Rob Eccles

Rob Eccles spends endless hours looming over a keyboard in the murky depths of his basement office creating works of varying merit. A contributor to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, he is currently shopping his first novel, “a tale of Life, Death, and Identity Theft” tentatively titled The Poggendorf File. You can reach him .

Bad Habits

Earlier this year, Habitat for Humanity fired its founder on accusations of sexual harassment. He has since created a new entity designed to support his former company. Our reporter infiltrates the world of scandalous nonprofiting with a completely fictional look inside the new organization. (Behind the Scenes | June 30, 2005)

Greetings From the Mercer Mobile Home Community Zoo

Political battles! Injured children! Mange! You’ve wondered what goes on inside the bureaucracy that is your local mobile-home community’s zoo—now Rob Eccles lets you in. (Stories | April 1, 2005)

That’s My Vader…

Some days you’ve got it, other days you don’t. And some days, you’re the dark lord of the Sith. Rob Eccles knows what it would be like if Darth Vader spent a day in his shoes, speaking only in memorable quotes from the original Star Wars. (Personalities | March 14, 2005)

A Different World

You’ve always known it deep down, but season one of the Cosby Show would have been a bit different had Cliff Huxtable habitually drugged and subsequently fondled select bit players. Rob Eccles writes. (Stories | March 3, 2005)


TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

More From Gore Vidal

Like the man himself, Gore Vidal's scrapbook of the past half-century is unparalleled.

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RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...