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WHOSE SICK JOKE was it to make panties for barely-teenage girls with a picture of a cute feline on the, er, bottom front panel, with the ca...

ALTHOUGH SIMON REYNOLDS has been doing pop music criticism for almost as long as I've been living, I only discovered his writing late la...

MULLIGAN STEW. I have never laughed so hard at a rap song. (The link is to the mp3.) This is not new stuff, but SoCal's Soup The Chemi...

AS JOHN CUSACK'S character Rob Gordon muses, pop music really has screwed up entire generations with its pictures of "heartbreak,...

PARIS AND NICOLE : Non-producing rich brats coasting on family wealth. Paris-and-Nicole-hyping media: Non-producers coasting on footage of n...

THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY: I have this dream about a beautiful artist/writer named Jenny or Jen, who is a white girl, with red hair. I pick her...

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...