Joel Keller

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Joel Keller is a freelance writer from New Jersey. His writing has appeared in Jane, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Times and Radar, among other publications and websites. He hopes he can write off an flat-screen TV as a tax deduction.

Joel Keller

Is Tiger Woods Syndrome Making Your Wife Suspicious?

As if men didn't have enough to worry about in the relationship department, along comes Tiger Woods to make it even harder. If TMZ is to be believed, his epic philandering has sullied the reputations of seemingly nice guys everywhere and is turning their wives into paranoid cell-phone snoopers. They've dubbed the phenomenon Tiger Woods Syndrome, and the most high-profile sufferer is "American ...

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Does Liking 'Glee' Make You Less of a Man?

Not sure if you folks reading Asylum realized it, but "Glee" aired its "winter finale" last night. It will be going into hibernation until April, when the group of singing teens will reappear in an oh-so-fitting spot after the Tuesday episode of "American Idol." How do I know this? Because I watched it. And not because I was doing it to keep my fiancee happy or because I was acting in my ...

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Are Gay Slurs OK in the Locker Room?

Last week, Larry Johnson of the Kansas City Chiefs was suspended by the team for two weeks for telling a reporter to "get your faggot ass out of here," not long after letting loose similar slurs on his Twitter page. Considering it was less than 20 years ago that Zeke Mowatt harassed female reporter Lisa Olson with his manhood in the locker room, it's not too surprising that homophobia coexists ...

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When Does Being 'Adorably Persistent' Turn Into 'Obessively Stalking'?

I blame John Cusack. No, not for his recent run of lousy movie choices. (I still talk about the stink-o-rama that was "War, Inc.") I blame our favorite Chicago native for making movies in the '80s that made guys think that if a woman rejects your advances, it's OK to write her love notes, stand outside her window with Peter Gabriel playing from a boombox, surprise her at work, and do all sorts ...

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Is Steve Phillips' Affair More Controversial Because Brooke Hundley Is Plain?

Anyone who's a Mets fan knows that Steve Phillips is as bad at marriage as he was at being a general manager. So the affair that the former ESPN analyst had with Brooke Hundley, a production assistant at the Worldwide Leader, shouldn't have raised too many eyebrows. But not only is it all over the tabloids, but the various scandal-loving sports blogs -- and their readers -- are eating it up like ...

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