TashaRobinson
- Joined: September 22, 2007
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Tasha Robinson (associate editor, national, @tasharobinson) has this theory that all born entertainment writers start out doing scutwork in a related field: Her first job was in a library, and she's noticed that most A.V. Club critics started out clerking in music stores, book shops, and video-rental places. She maintains her theory by pointing to them and studiously ignoring any contradictory data. She grew up in Maryland, where she started writing bad genre fiction at age 7 or so, and she eventually went to the University of Iowa for the Writer's Workshop program, which not only broke her of writing genre fiction, but also turned her off fiction writing in general. Since then, she's been a critic, copyeditor, editor, and designer for various publications. She got a double BA at Iowa (film and journalism) in 1991, started writing for The A.V. Club in 1998, became a full-time writer-editor in 2000, and hasn't looked back since. Though she sometimes still wishes she worked in a library.
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The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing
Agreed. In spite of all the shit she's taken all season for not being dynamic enough, or powerful enough, or sexy enough, or basically having a personality, I thought she was great in that last episode, particularly "Don't ...
May 21, 2012 - 11:22 AM
The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing
One of the recent Mad Men ads was among the inspirations for this inventory, but when it came to actually assigning someone to write it, there was a staff argument about whether the ad was really that problematic. In retrospect ...
May 21, 2012 - 10:19 AM
First you get the sugar, then you get the power: The A.V. Club visits the 2012 Sweets & Snacks Expo
Well, it'll have to wait for space to clear in my lab. I went out and acquired some Speculoos tonight, and I already had Pillsbury croissants waiting in the fridge, so it's time for some unholy experiments of ...
May 18, 2012 - 11:18 PM
First you get the sugar, then you get the power: The A.V. Club visits the 2012 Sweets & Snacks Expo
And these bites are lard, sugar, and food coloring, and not even a very good example of that combination. I have not ruined your day so much as saved your stomach lining. Seriously, they're like gritty balls of sweet ...
May 18, 2012 - 4:23 PM
First you get the sugar, then you get the power: The A.V. Club visits the 2012 Sweets & Snacks Expo
Twist open Oreo. Add sliver of cookies and cream ice cream to middle. Put top back on Oreo. Now, cookie full of ice cream, and ice cream full of cookies. Me call it Meta-Oreo. Admit it, me just blew your ...
May 18, 2012 - 2:33 PM
Ghosts and institutionalized amnesia haunt a strange town in the YA novel Glimmer
Those are really interesting books, though my favorite of the lot was the fourth book, Extras, where you get to see an entirely different society and get a sense for how other people see Tally.
May 16, 2012 - 10:25 AM