<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title>Freezerbox Magazine - Matthew Callan</title><link rel="self" href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/author.php?id=32&#38;output=atom" /><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com"/><rights type="html">Copyright &#38;copy; 1997-2026 Infocrat, LLC. All rights reserved.</rights><logo>https://www.freezerbox.com/images/ads/freezerbox/bomb_88x31.gif</logo><id>https://www.freezerbox.com</id><updated>2026-04-15T00:49:04Z</updated><entry><title>The Body is Good Business</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=275"/><summary type="html">Gay TV for straights is here. But what does it mean?</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2003-08-04T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2003-08-05T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=275</id></entry><entry><title>Meet the New Boss</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=257"/><summary type="html">We should all feel glad that Henry Kissinger isn't running the 9/11 probe, but we shouldn't be too happy about his replacement, either.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2003-01-17T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2003-02-19T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=257</id></entry><entry><title>The Highlight Reel</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=222"/><summary type="html">Why does the media feel the need to reflect on something that still exists?</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2002-09-05T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-09-05T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=222</id></entry><entry><title>Leap of the Faithless</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=210"/><summary type="html">It can be lonely being unpious in this suddenly righteous nation of ours. That doesn't mean the holy should be doing all the talking.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2002-07-11T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-07-12T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=210</id></entry><entry><title>The Lemon Pledge</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=209"/><summary type="html">A view of the Pledge of Allegience, from the perspective of a childhood spent avoiding it.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2002-07-11T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-07-11T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=209</id></entry><entry><title>Palestine By George Lucas</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=203"/><summary type="html">The menaces we have to fear are not in phantoms, but in ourselves.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2002-05-22T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-05-22T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=203</id></entry><entry><title>The New Medicine Show, In a Series of Ones and Zeros</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=174"/><summary type="html">There is a program that knows you are looking at this page right now--among other things.</summary><category term="Internet"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2002-01-26T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-01-26T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=174</id></entry><entry><title>Al-Qaeda Ate My Student Loans</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=169"/><summary type="html">In a debt-driven economy, some obligations are harder to pay than others.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-12-24T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-12-27T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=169</id></entry><entry><title>The Alibi of Broadway</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=161"/><summary type="html">Mayor Giuliani urges New Yorkers to spend, spend, spend. Unfortunately, the city his administration created was never meant to include New Yorkers.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-11-02T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-11-02T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=161</id></entry><entry><title>On Your Knees, Teach</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=149"/><summary type="html">The New York City Board of Education is a cruel mistress. Luckily, most teachers seem to be into that sort of thing.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-09-10T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-09-10T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=149</id></entry><entry><title>Two Polish Guys Walk Into an Indie Rock Show...</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=138"/><summary type="html">It's not the beginning of a joke.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-07-09T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-07-09T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=138</id></entry><entry><title>Ironic Ink</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=123"/><summary type="html">A rumination on tattoos, history, and Twisted Sister.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-05-11T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-05-11T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=123</id></entry><entry><title>I Wanna Be Your...</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=119"/><summary type="html">Joey Ramone's greatest contribution to music was being an ugly son of a bitch. Discuss.</summary><category term="Music"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-04-18T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-04-18T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=119</id></entry><entry><title>How My Father Started Talking American</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=111"/><summary type="html">On St. Patrick's Day, everyone's a little bit Irish. Unless you were actually born in Ireland, as my father taught me by example.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-03-10T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-03-10T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=111</id></entry><entry><title>Ken Burns, Scrimshaw Fetishist</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=82"/><summary type="html">Ken Burns works up a 19 hour documentary on jazz, and leaves the 1960s and 70s to wait in the car.</summary><category term="Television"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2001-02-04T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-02-04T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=82</id></entry><entry><title>A Milestone, Not A Millstone: Mos Def and the Jack Johnson Band at Roseland</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=109"/><summary type="html">Mos Def recently debuted his new 'ghetto rock n' roll' outfit, the Jack Johnson Band, and it is equal parts rock and roll.</summary><category term="Music"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-12-27T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-12-27T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=109</id></entry><entry><title>In Memoriam: Action Park</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=235"/><summary type="html">A loving review of Matthew Callan's days at Action Park, a death-happy amusement park in Jersey that defied both logic and the survival instinct.</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-11-22T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-19T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=235</id></entry><entry><title>Rutherford B. Hayes Speaks Out</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=93"/><summary type="html">Our 19th President, who knew a thing or two about electoral controversy, offers his services as a talking head.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-11-15T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-11-15T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=93</id></entry><entry><title>Catch Olympic Fever and Nobody Gets Hurt!</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=47"/><summary type="html">It's Olympics time again. Cyanide, anyone?</summary><category term="Culture"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-09-16T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-09-16T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=47</id></entry><entry><title>White Sale</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=77"/><summary type="html">As we roll past Labor Day, George W. Bush and Al Gore struggle to differentiate themselves from one another in the public's mind. If you have trouble telling them apart, look no further than their official campaign supply stores, georgewbushstore.com and goregear.com.</summary><category term="Internet"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-09-08T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-09-07T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=77</id></entry><entry><title>A New Millenium Dawns, and ArchieComics.com Hits the Snooze Button</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=72"/><summary type="html">Archie Comics have been around for years, and it shows. Depsite their expansion onto the web via archiecomics.com, the omnipresent red-haired menace keeps his feet planted firmly in the 1950's.</summary><category term="Internet"/><author><name>Matthew Callan</name></author><published>2000-09-01T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-09-01T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=72</id></entry></feed>