Articles By: Jordan Green

Jordan Green is from Portland, Oregon. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Burnside Writers Collective. Besides editing, Jordan Green has also worked as a courier, a barista at a large coffee purveyor, and as a US Army Counterintelligence Agent, among other things. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Mindy, his daughter Lana, a dog, and two cats.

The Abominable “O Holy Night” Redux

We have a Christmas tradition around these parts. Every year, we re-post Burnside’s most popular article of all time: “The Abominable ‘O Holy Night’”. Along with the Advent Conspiracy, this insanely awful little diddy gets us in the Christmas spirit. The Abominable O...

December 7th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Humor, Music | Read More

Interview with Russ Masterson

In 2004, Russ Masterson went on a fast. It wasn’t a fast from sugar or alcohol or the internet or cell phones. He fasted the old-fashioned way. For forty days, Russ Masterson didn’t eat food. Russ chronicles that fast in 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul, an e-book...

July 5th, 2011 | Burnside Sells Out | Read More

Day 27

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul by Russ Masterson, a Burnside contributor. The book is being released by Tyndale today in a digital-only format through Amazon. — Day 27 155 pounds. I can now see day 40. Half of me loves...

July 1st, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

Karen Spears Zacharias, CNN, and the Internet Wringer

A month and a half ago, a friend sent me a .pdf of Go the F**k to Sleep. I thought it was fairly funny because it conveyed the universal frustrations of parents in a delightfully inappropriate manner. I didn’t think it was particularly innovative, since McSweeney’s Baby Be of Use series...

June 28th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

An Semi-Insider’s Guide to the “Blue Like Jazz” Film

The last explicitly Christian film I saw was 12 years ago. (I do not count The Passion of the Christ.) I was working in a small medical supply sales office, along with a few other Christians. One Friday, they invited me to The Omega Code‘s opening. We have to show Hollywood we support Christian...

June 9th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Film | Read More

The Pale King

I’m not telling you to read David Foster Wallace’s newly-released posthumous novel The Pale King. I haven’t read it yet. In fact, I haven’t read The Infinite Jest (though it’s being shipped to me as I write). I’ve read a few of Wallace’s magazine articles, his...

April 1st, 2011 | Arts, Books, Featured | Read More

Editorial Notes

Burnsiders, It’s been a while since I’ve said hello, and I apologize for that. I thought I’d give an update on what’s been going on around here. I’ll make it a numbered list, because that’s always nice and easy. 1. Three of Burnside’s editors, along with a good...

March 7th, 2011 | Editorial, Featured, Letters from the Editor | Read More

I Will Miss Brian Jacques

A few days ago, Brian Jacques passed away. I learned about this today. A few years ago, I wrote a review of a recent entry in Brian Jacques’ Redwall series, Rakkety Tam. I wanted to see how my childhood influences held up, years on. I’m ashamed of this review now, because it’s nitpicky,...

February 9th, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

Portland as a Laughingstock

The first episode of IFC’s Portlandia airs this Friday at 10:30. Fortunately, because networks are getting better and better at airing their programs on the internet (and following what IFC did last year with The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret), Portlandia is available to watch,...

January 18th, 2011 | Featured, The Idiot Box | Read More

Interview with Alex James of Dolorean

(Editor’s Note: Dolorean’s latest album, The Unfazed, is out today. Go and get it NOW.) After I decided I wanted to write for a living, the first piece I wrote was a review for Violence in Snowy Fields, an Americana-tinged album by Dolorean, a band based in Portland. When we launched...

January 18th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Music | Read More