About Brian

Brian Raftery’s features and profiles have appeared in Wired, Spin, GQ, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and Salon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, and can be reached at brianraftery@gmail.com.

A few recent articles:

“King of Cheez: The Internet’s Meme Maestro Turns Junk Into Gold” (Feb. 2010)
“Now Playing: Cheap-and-Schlocky Blockbuster Ripoffs” (Jan. 2010)
“Tim and Eric Awesome Show! Gross, Half-Naked, Demented TV” (Nov. 2009)
“Speechless: Dilbert Creator’s Struggle to Regain His Voice” (August 2009) (Scott Adams profile)
“Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is Out of Beta” (June 2009)
“Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof” (October 2008)
“So, Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into a Bar …” (July 2008) (ROFLcon profile)
“Karaoke Dreams” (December 2006) (Karaoke World Championships profile)

“Dearly Beloved” (July 2009) (Purple Rain oral history)
“Album of the Year: TV on the Radio” (January 2009)
“Crazy/Beautiful” (December 2008) (Fucked Up profile)
“Led Astray” (January 2008)
“Microphone Fiends” (September 2007) (New Pornographers profile)
“Sunshine State” (Aug. 2007) (Against Me! profile)
“It’s Swing Time” (March 2007) (Fall Out Boy profile)
“Bent Out of Shape” (Aug. 2006) (Thom Yorke profile)
“Johnny B. Bad” (July 2006) (Johnny Knoxville profile)
“Gender Bender” (May 2006) (Genesis P-Orridge profile)
“Requiem for a Beam” (Sept. 2005) (Profile of the declining laser-show industry)
“Building a Broken Heart” (Sept. 2005) (Death Cab for Cutie profile)
“Rebels Without Applause” (April 2005) (Living Things profile)
“Night Falls on Manhattan” (April 2005) (Interpol profile)

“The Renegade Cartoonist” (October 2009) (Berkeley Breathed profile)
“Excess Bravado” (May 2009) (Screaming Females profile)
“How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads Into Political Art” (October 2008)

“Mike Judge is Getting Screwed (Again)” (June 2006)

“Karaoke Rage” (January 27th, 2009)

“‘Slacker’: 15 years later” (July 2006)