My first-ever piece for Time Out. Out today.

Need a "chart-icle" writer? I'm now, officially, your man.

This coming to you from none other than the good people at Time Out New York! No, I didn't know what a "chart-icle" was either 'til I wrote one.

Online Version of Eli's Time Out Chart-icle

It's way cooler to look at it in print, but if you want immediate gratification, click away.

It's a graph detailing what might happen if several lesser-known unions went on strike in New York. It was very hard to make union issues funny, I don't know if I succeeded, and the research required nearly killed me.

However, this is a great occasion for me, if for no other reason than I've learned what kind of work goes into a good piece of fluff, how much of what one writes actually makes the article, and how many words get changed by the staff (answer: a lot). Those of you who know me, see if you can guess which jokes are pure Eli, which are pure editor.

But I have absolutely no cause to gripe. My name's in a glossy magazine, and at least two of the jokes remained intact. That's actually a lot when you think about it!