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...head writer of the Onion's A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin is charged with both skewering pop culture and sanctifying it - and often does both in the same sentence. Rabin's book, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, released July 7, is a look back at his troubled childhood, which included bouts of depression and time spent in group homes after being abandoned by his parents. TIME talked to Rabin about his love of the rap game, how he got started at the A.V. Club and how pop culture emerged as his savior...
...write a lot about rap both at the Onion and in the book. I really identified with hip-hop growing up. There was this incredibly pure anger, sort of free-floating rage towards everything and everyone. And growing up in a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, my God, we just inhabited that space. We were able to take the hip-hop tropes - hating authority, and hating the police - and use it for our own lives. It felt so empowering that you could come from nothing and become a god. Like all fantasies, it was an illusion. If you look...
Siskel and Ebert play a large role in the book, and I see that Roger Ebert has endorsed it enthusiastically. I think anybody who grows up a cinephile is going to be touched by Robert Ebert. I remember watching Siskel and Ebert as a kid in Chicago and going, "Oh my God, they've cracked the code. This has to be the single greatest existence in the world." In the first couple years I worked at the A.V. Club, I'd tell people that I was a critic. My family members would say, "Your cousin Lloyd wanted...
...auditioned to be a guest host on Ebert and Roeper, and although I failed miserably, I sent him an e-mail saying I wrote this book, and you're featured prominently. And Ebert, God bless him, wrote a blurb for the book. I think his blurb is actually longer than the book itself...
...mail before his workday really begins with an 8:30 video briefing with his regional commanders across the country. His iPod and Kindle (the newest model) are stocked by his wife with serious tomes on Pakistan, Lincoln and Vietnam. Right now, he is reading William Maley's 2002 book The Afghanistan Wars, a catalog of the long list of British failures in Afghanistan. McChrystal famously eats little during the day, recently only picking at an Afghan spread featuring four kinds of meat. To the chagrin of Afghans, who see drinking tea as an inalienable human right, he scrapped a morning...