Lollipop Magazine

Cine-Trash – Showgirls – Column

December 1, 1996

To call Showgirls “bad” is like calling Ted Bundy “moody.”

Coroner’s Corner – Column

December 1, 1996

If you enjoy powerful drama jammed with tons o’ stars, check out Sleepers – a well-crafted tale of four young boys sent to Juvie Hall.

Fame – Fiction

December 1, 1996

I’ve wanted to be an actor, a rock star, a writer, and/or a director depending on the level of grandeur I was on. Or how much Star Search I’d been watching.

Guide To the Boston Area’s Used Record Stores – Column

December 1, 1996

The following is a guided tour (though, unlike other city tours, you don’t get to see or feed any ducks) of the Boston area’s used record stores.

How to Terrify Your Girlfriend, Pt. 117 – Fiction

December 1, 1996

Time to find out if she’s with you, or just another sculpture of gorgeous flesh you’re passing through on the road to wherever the hell it is you’re going.

Idi the Gourmet – Fiction

December 1, 1996

It’s been twenty years since the world’s collective conscience was shocked by the horrific antics of Idi Amin. Now THERE was an Evil Dictator.

March of the Lemmings – Fiction

December 1, 1996

The first few strains of The Macarena conjure up repellent images of faceless millions gyrating about like people attempting sign language after free-basing.

Muffled Screams – Fiction

December 1, 1996

We borrowed the car of our hapless distribution guy, a putz puttering his way through life in a 1990 Hyundai that was about as muffled as Courtney Love’s mouth

The Culture Bunker – 23 Short Columns About Filling Magazine Space – Fiction

December 1, 1996

While you’re reading this sentence, Cubans are rummaging through your closets and loosening the buttons on your favorite shirt just to fuck with you.

The Third Eye – Kabbalah – Column

December 1, 1996

As untraceable as the origin of the Tarot, Kabbalah (Cabalah, Qabala) is an ancient Jewish mysticism based on the hidden meaning in the Hebrew Bible, the Torah.