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 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.

Why Techno? – Column

December 1, 1996

The first musicians banged rocks together, sticks together, bones together. Later, someone had the revelation that you could bang different things together.

End-of-year List – Column

December 1, 1996

I shall make a list of 25 records spanning the history of rock music that, without which, I would shortly be found naked, curled into a fetal position.

My Top Ten List – Column

December 1, 1996

Steel Miners – All Hopped Up: Six scuzzy nuggets that fly by in two minute garage bursts. It’s coarse, crude, mean, and hands down the best record of 1996.

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