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Graffic Traffic – More Comics About Buildings And Food – Column

June 1, 1997

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Deadbeats: New In Town reprint the early issues of their comics. Elvira at least has the goofy camp, if not the cleavage.

Garbage Pail – Sample Questions from The Punker Aptitude Test – Column

June 1, 1997

If Bad Religion’s tour bus driving West at 69 mph, and collided with Def Leppard who were traveling East in a train going 92 mph, the resulting sound would be:

Garbage Pail – Scene Splicing – Column

June 1, 1997

Scene Splicing: Panterosmith. Sly and the Family Stone Temple Pilots. Ani DiFrankie Goes To Hollywood.

What The Hell Is Ska? – Column

June 1, 1997

Ska originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a hybrid of the island music with the American music that was trickling into the islands.

The Third Eye – True Astrology – Column

June 1, 1997

Astrology is technical; a Natal Chart print-out is a circular geometrical nightmare of angles, arcs and glyphs (astrological symbols for planets and signs).

In For a Fin – Five fun things for under five dollars – Column

June 1, 1997

Yes, they have no bananas. But the naturally fresh folks at Garden Botanica do have fun sponges in every other fruit shape you might like to bite into.

A Guide to Selecting the Proper Dive Bar – Column

June 1, 1997

Enjoy these post-collegiate dark days. They only happen once, so you might as well make a big Bacchanalian production out of them.

Coroner’s Corner – A Public Service Announcement – Column

June 1, 1997

Money hungry distributors are now packaging the worst-ever horror films in tacky boxes with holograms and/or naked women to attract the no-brain jamboree.

Videosyncrasy – 101 Video Nights – Column

May 1, 1997

I braved the winter cold to rent the evening’s video, trying to do so in such a way as to somehow win her heart, which I finally did. Here’s how…

Sarre-Chasm – May Flowers Killed My Dog – Column

May 1, 1997

The Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. : The Lost ’77 Mixes – I don’t know quite how lucid Thunders and Nolan were at the time, but they sure fake it well.