Lollipop Magazine

Garbage Pail – Movies Combinations – Column

September 1, 2000

Movies Combinations: Three Kings and a Baby, The Long Kiss Goodnight of the Living Dead, Father of the Bride of Frankenstein.

Send Lawyers, Lobbyists, Liars and Lapdogs – Fiction

June 1, 2000

A hundred years ago, people sang and danced and told stories in their homes, in church, and on the corner. Today, music is something played by professionals under the contract of record labels which own the “rights” to it.

Garbage Pail – Family Reunions We Hope to Never See – Column

September 1, 1999

Family Reunions: Patrick & Jon Stewart. Mel, William & Debby Gibson. Steve & Rickie Martin. Norm, Ronald & Old MacDonald.

The Other Y2K Problem – Fiction

June 1, 1999

Economists and world leaders are finally waking up to the fact that the horse lodging industry is lagging about 4,000 years behind where it should be.

Garbage Pail – Movie Combinations – Column

April 1, 1999

Movie Combinations: Boogie Nights of the Living Dead. There’s Something about Moll Flanders. Bound to Crash on a Lost Highway.

Rage Against the Cubicle – Fiction

January 1, 1999

Remember, it’s all about one upsmanship when you’re dealing with hipsters. When they’re ironic, you’ve got to be “ironic.”

Movies Inappropriately Renamed by the Canadian Motion Picture Association – Fiction

April 1, 1998

Canadian: Le Revenge Du Jack. American: The Nightmare Before Christmas. Canadian: Les Dents De La Muerte. American: Jaws.

That Ain’t Boston “Tawkin” – Fiction

April 1, 1998

Most actors have no idea how to parlay a true Boston accent to the big or small screen. Here are a few of the more forgettable examples…

An “Interview” With J.D. Salinger – Fiction

March 1, 1998

J.D. Salinger recently agreed to break his 40-year silence, consenting to an interview with the acclaimed literature/music/fashion critic, Jean-Paul Bavard.

Cine-Trash Field Report – Column

December 1, 1997

Empire Records lie waiting for me, the “brain”child of one Allan Moyle, a man responsible for foisting some of the most heavy-handed teensploitation tales ever.