About Us

Mike

Michael Hobbes is a reporter for HuffPost. He grew up in Seattle and attended a third-tier university and moved abroad as soon as he graduated because he thought that’s where boyfriends lived. He spent 11 years in Europe working in international development and telling the internet how he felt weird about it. In 2016 he moved back to Seattle because America is going great and maybe the boyfriends lived there now. He has a blog and a twitter and sometimes makes videos and audio short stories. He grew up with cats but doesn’t consider himself a cat person.

Here are some things he’s written that he feels good about:

• Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong
• Generation Screwed
• The Afterlife of Big Ideas in Education Reform
• The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness
• Saving The World, One Buzzword At A Time
• The Untouchables: Why it’s Getting Harder to Stop Corporate Human Rights Abuses
• The Myth of the Ethical Shopper
• How (Not) to Save the World
• How My Parents Accidentally Got Caught Up in the Iranian Revolution

Sarah

Sarah Marshall grew up in Portland and Honolulu and went to Portland State University, where she hung around long enough that they let her start teaching. Her writing on maligned women and alleged monsters has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, BuzzFeed, the Baffler and elsewhere. She lives across the street from a scrap metal yard in Philadelphia, and is researching a book on the Satanic panic.

Sarah wrote the preceding paragraph but this website is on Mike’s account so he’s including a bunch of great essays Sarah is too humble to brag about:

• The End of Evil (on Ted Bundy)
• Remote Control (the Tonya Harding essay that is how Mike and Sarah met)
• Living Things (on Jeffrey Dahmer)
• The Magic Kingdom: The dark side of the Disney dream
• The Afterlife of “Newsies”
• The Incredible True Story Of How “Titanic” Got Made
• How Anna Nicole Smith Became America’s Punchline
• Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder
• The Afterlife of O.J. Simpson
• “Making a Murderer” and the New True Crime
• ‘Twin Peaks’ and the Origin of the Dead Woman TV Trope