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Don't ask why, but today I Googled the term "breast milk ice cream." This took me to a page of a breastfeeding forum where the...

YESTERDAY WAS AN INTERESTING DAY. First, in the morning I had to think about what snacks to buy for the kids. (I work at a ...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A REDNECK WHEN .... ... your lawn is your garage and your bathroom. The owner of the car and tub, Sarah , (aka Stormy)...

sometimes you meet your twin it’s like looking in a mirror but just like your reflection and you maybe twins aren’t meant to come togethe...

YOU HAVE TO LOVE synchronicity. Friday, 10:33 a.m: I’m watching The Buddy Holly Story on VH-1. Buddy’s mom is telling him over dinner, “w...

WHO IS THIS MAN and what is my connection to him? Where to start? 1981:  Hall and Oates release a song called “ Private Eyes .” (Am I w...

I saw a fascinating Montel show about couples who are romantic, yet asexual. This is cool, since I go through some quite asexual periods mys...

MY FIRST POST to The Conversation, the discussion forum at the online home of the Chicago alt-media/art/activism collective, Lumpen , encap...

I'm intrigued by the idea of hipster parenting. (Like "alternadad" Neal Pollack , for example. ) I wrote the following a coup...

IN THE FEBRUARY 8 love-'n'-sex-themed issue of NewCity, “Marcy K” bared her soul and shared her small problem -- or rather, her t...

I'M PROBABLY THE biggest fan of Hall and Oates on this planet ( Oates especially), and I know they’re old -old-school, but -- c’mon. H...

"DO YOU LIKE REALISM?” the guy said to me when I poked my head through the door of the tiny but plushly appointed art studio . The ...

SEEING THAT TRUTH is stranger than fiction, I tend not to spend much time on the latter any more. But in its own way fiction still can be p...

WHETHER THEY COME FROM the unconscious, the spirit realm, or both, or neither, it's an amazing process -- and all the more so for its my...

POETRY IS THE one form of entertainment loaded with hoards of mediocres completely unconscious of the fact that they are supposed to be ent...

ONCE UPON A TIME -- on May 26, 2000, to be precise--I received a most intriguing e-mail from an "E Aguilar."* The subject line re...

THE THING THAT'S so cool about growing old as a Gen-Xer is that for several years now, VH-1 has been replaying our entire youth for us...

but I'm so tired of the Super Bowl Shuffle gettin all the play in the wake of the Bears victory, while the sweetest '85 Bears char...

  AND MUSIC BY MUSICIANS is the new punk rock. Yes! So I have proclaimed it,  and so shall it be. While googling the term "art a...