Is this the Dan Tobin you're looking for?  This is the one who was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts University, wrote for the Boston Phoenix and Stuff@Night, then moved to Hollywood.  He worked on Just Shoot Me, The Geena Davis Show, and The Ellen Show, and wrote for Greetings from Tucson and Less Than Perfect.  He hosted and booked the Organic Comedy at Karma standup show at Karma Coffeehouse for 76 shows and currently maintains the blogs Surgical Strikes and George Bush is my friend.  He is reported to be awesome.

SCRIPTS

F O R   T E L E V I S I O N

Less Than Perfect: "Love Stinks (Sometimes)" Guest stars Billy Ragsdale (from What's in Herman's Head?) and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton.  Originally aired on ABC, Feb. 10, 2004.




Greetings from Tucson: "Home Sweet Home"  Guest stars J.C. Chasez (of N*Sync).  Originally aired on the WB, April 11, 2003.

F O R   S T A G E

• You Never Can Tell  How to get out of being drafted; originally produced in San Francisco as part of "A Loud Little Handful," an afternoon of anti-war plays.  Finalist for the 2003 Heideman Award in the National Ten-Minute Play Competition.
• Vice Presidential Counseling  Dick and Jane go for marriage counseling.  Originally produced in Los Angeles as part of "Elephants and Asses" quick-turnaround short plays about the 2004 presidential debates.

F I L M

The Cool  Farley wants to be cool, so he enlists the help of Trey Smooth, professional cool guy in this deadpan satire of nightlife and the concept of cool

ARTICLES

F O R   I N V E R S I O N   M A G A Z I N E

Board Games with W  A playdate at the White House turns ugly

• Video Killed the Video Star  The decline of the music video, MTV, and pop culture

F O R   P O O P Y   C A C A

• Phil Jackson Celebrates Return to Lakers and In-N-Out Burger

F O R   T H E   B O S T O N   P H O E N I X

ESSAYS

• Eat the Snail!  The faltering vegetarian confronts his worst fear: a meal that's still alive
• 617th Heaven  Why area codes really, really matter
• The Alone Ranger  Does being by yourself make you a loser?
• Get a Sporting Life  Can a man get by without knowing a thing about sports? It's better not to risk it.

Hipsterphobia  Why is his hair so much more perfect than mine will ever be? And why do I care?

Like a Girl  Emasculation by a misshapen lump of stuffing

FEATURES

• Casting About for Legitimacy  Wanna be a movie director? All you have to do is direct something. But first, you have to cast it.

Hollywood Square  A report from the trenches of entry-level Hollywood, where making supermodels giggle and fending off advances from Patrick Swayze are par for the course. Sort of.

• Why I Love Pro Wrestling (And Why You Should, Too)   Sure, pro wrestling isn't a sport. It's more than a sport. Got a problem with that?

Radio Free Everywhere   All jungle all the time! Or all Chicago blues! Now playing on your computer. [NOTE: Article features an intervew with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban before he was famous]

• Puppet regime  Jeff Dunham's no dummy, but everyone he works with is.
• Butting Out  We tuned in, turned on, and dropped out. Way out. Now we say good-bye, but not good riddance, to Beavis and Butt-head
• Amp Power  MTV's hour-long strange trip

• The 12 Pains of Christmas  How to deal with holiday wackos, from the seasonal cheerleaders to the cynics


• Back to School  Are you ready for classes? Take this quiz and find out.
• Merry Kitschmas  Murderous, masturbating Santas -- seasonal tchotchkes aren't what they used to be
• 5 Rejected letters to Santa
• 5 Postmodern fears
• 5 Hustler job offers
• 5 Debates
• 5 Great Gordons
• 5 Heroic cats
• 5 Athletic wrestlers
• 5 Future X-Files plots
• 5 Beastie Boy Evolutions
• 5 Forgotten Franks
• 5 Seinfeld plots
• 5 Grumpy old men
• 5 Other books by governors

• Barney's Great Adventure
• Beyond Silence
• Blade
• Bride of Chucky
• Dee Snider's Strangeland
• Home Alone 3
• I Married A Strange Person
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
• Krippendorf's Tribe
• Rocketman
• Senseless
• Star Kid
• Voices of the Children
• The Waterboy

• Blues Traveler, Straight on Till Morning
• Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Shady Grove
• The Greyboy All-Stars, A Town Called Earth
• Guster: Goldfly Gets Rough
• Ziggly Marley & the Melody Makers, Fallen Is Babylon
• Regatta Mondatta: A Reggae Tribute to the Police
• Danielle Howle, About to Burst
• Barenaked Ladies, Rock Spectacle
• The Seldom Scene, Dream Scene

• Season of Wonder  Your guide to getting in the spirit -- from a play about scandalous reindeer to holiday laser shows
• Ha-ha happenings  Coming attractions
• The Hub's Clubs  City nightlife -- for slackers, slicksters, and rockers
• Sandman Clubs Elf

F O R   S T U F F @ N I G H T

• So You Wanna Write a Screenplay... Forget about the Great American Novel. In the ’90s, everybody wants to write movies. If Matt & Ben could do it, why can’t you?
• Cocktail Talk  A biweekly column about a young twenty-something trying to experience nightlife.  From my embarrassing "I wish I was a cool guy from Swingers" phase, some good writing if you can get past the attempted-cool-guy posturing.  Coming soon.

F O R   S T U F F   M A G A Z I N E

• The Pauper Bostonian  A short-lived column in a now-defunct magazine.  Coming soon.

F O R   T H E   W E E K L Y   W E E K

• Various articles I contributed to the short-lived fake newspaper.

F O R   T H E   T U F T S   D A I L Y

• Misadventures in Dentistry  A  weekly humor column that was decent by college standards... but does it hold up?  Despite the caluculated randomness and the now-obscure Tufts-in-the-mid-90s references, it has its moments.

• Halloween on the hill  Campus luminaries share memories of costumes gone by
• Students who aren't you are having sex  
• Art bypass  
• Morse Hamilton, 1943-1998  
• Why does Tufts bring out the worst in people?  
• Strictly Ballroom at Tufts  The Jumbo dancers making their way in the dance world
• Art bypass 

• Grunge finds its sense of humor  After brooding for years, Pearl Jam learns how to have fun
• One for the money, and only for the money  Carl Perkins gets horrific on latest duet album Go Cat Go
• Folk and Bluegrass Festival  Somerville Theater, Oct. 26
• Album needs more than Just Head  A half-assed Talking Heads reunion shows that they need David Byrne
• Okay, call it a comeback  LL Cool J gets a greatest hits collection by erasing the hard
• High Fidelity chronicles the musings of the ultimate everyman  
• Stupid is as Sandler does  Dumb but amusing golf flick Happy Gilmore opens today
• Another Barenaked classic  Canadians' latest release is brilliant, as expected
• Not as much fun as advertised  Fun Lovin' Criminals seem promising but disappoint
• "The best music in the world" was in Cohen  Jazz great Sonny Rollins bounced with joy throughout his brilliant Tufts show
• The real Pride of New England  Beautiful bluegrass comes to Somerville, but nobody cared
• Barenaked in Boston  The Orpheum giggles at Canada's favorite sons
• Anthony Clark uncommonly funny  Though recycled, his jokes delighted Tufts audience
• Funk, Fun, and Phish-wannabes at Spring Fling 

SELF-PUBLISHING

B L O G S

• Surgical Strikes  When I read other blogs, I skip to the short ones.  This is all short ones.
• George Bush is my friend  The President sends me email.  I post some of it here.
• 365 Dumps  A year in the life of my colon, one dump at a time.

A B A N D O N E D   B L O G S

• The Dan Tobin Flour Hour  I wanted my own radio show. This is what I came up with.
• Navbar Adventures  An excerpt from every blog I get sent to by the Blogger NavBar.  100% other people's blogs.

F A I L E D   W E B Z I N E S

• Ironic Distance  My first ever domain name, which has since lapsed.  I mostly wanted a place to "publicize" The Cool, and blogs had yet to take off. So I set up a framework of Positivity and Negativity, hoping to provide "Irony with Sincerity."  Ultimately it was too much work for not enough gain, and there wasn't the fun reciprocity of blog-linking and commenting.
• Hustler of Culture  Back in 1997, Duy Linh Tu and I were desperate for a forum and we brainstormed a webzine called "Hustler of Culture," named after a Public Enemy lyric.  Never happened as I moved to Hollywood to pour coffee and he won a Pulitzer Fellowship.  A few years later, I launched a webzine, recruited a couple of writers, and dashed off an incredibly amateurish zine.
• Solve for X   My column in Peter Stokes' short-lived webzine The Magnetic Times.

A C T U A L   Z I N E S

• The Vagabond  When my high school discontinued the official "humor paper" I'd been chosen to edit, I release my own underground paper.  Behold the two issues that rocked the world, or at least the halls of Walpole High for most of the day the second issue came out.  Coming soon.