Rants and raves deconstructing our culture

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1996 Columns:
Tyler Jane Barley
  • Dolespotting (9/29/96)
  • Smoking books (11/10/96)
  • A real hoot (11/17/96)

    Lisa Black

  • Unreal (8/11/96)
  • From heroin, with love (8/25/96)
  • The myth of the american dream, riff #8 (9/01/96)
  • Keeping it real (9/15/96)
  • Relatively real (10/06/96)

    Todd Foltz

  • Goth Night at Bennigans (8/11/96)
  • Pondering the wonderful thing called marriage (8/18/96)
  • Live nude bears (8/25/96)
  • Riding the "train" of thoughtlessness (9/01/96)
  • The senator made me like boys (9/08/96)
  • Dying by the sword (9/15/96)
  • Staring at third (9/22/96)
  • Searching for utopia in her eyes (9/29/96)
  • Roommates, or why a women-in-prison movie is on theTV (10/06/96)
  • Queuing up for a school of lines (10/20/96)
  • Common cause (10/27/96)
  • Sins of the fathers (11/03/96)
  • Long distance dating crisis #187 (11/10/96)
  • Please, God, I'm too young to be Woody Allen (11/17/96)
  • Bye, Grandma (11/24/96)
  • Not to be a Scrooge, but... (12/22/96)

    Chris Jungle

  • Actor Laureate (8/11/96)
  • NASA's a great marketing company (8/18/96)
  • Drug education, anyone?(8/25/96)
  • Cashing in on the paranoia (9/01/96)
  • Adoption made easy (9/08/96)
  • Pulling a double shift (9/15/96)
  • The nonrated life (9/22/96)
  • Making it real (9/29/96)
  • Bounty hunters! We don't need their scum (10/06/96)
  • The role model bonus (10/20/96)
  • Again with the Cubans (10/27/96)
  • Don't fear the pied piper (11/03/96)
  • It's a holiday (11/10/96)
  • Some evil rises to the top (11/17/96)
  • Too many cooks in the kitchen (11/24/96)
  • Oh, the places we'll go (12/01/96)
  • Acting like a lame duck (12/08/96)
  • Taxing the bonus (12/15/96)
  • A smaller, more intimate world (12/29/96)

    		• Scott Parkinson
  • My First Time (8/11/96)
  • A brief discourse on semantics (8/18/96)
  • Screeds to Bill (8/18/96)
  • Tyranny (9/01/96)
  • Atomic monkeys are dangerous (9/08/96)
  • A very taxing rant (9/22/96)
  • Flugelling and I (9/29/96)

    Jon Worley

  • Hanging with the Bobster (8/11/96)
  • Stuffing the American Dream (8/18/96)
  • Spare change (8/25/96)
  • Driven to drink (9/01/96)
  • Fear, bitterness and hatred (9/08/96)
  • Some things should be obvious (9/15/96)
  • The autumnal equinox (9/22/96)
  • Head hunted (9/29/96)
  • St. Pete--It's not just for dead people any more (10/06/96)
  • Wishing for a liberal media (10/20/96)
  • About that riot thing (10/27/96)
  • Voting isn't a spectator sport (11/03/96)
  • Florida is your future (11/10/96)
  • Color blinded (11/17/96)
  • Terminal boredom (11/24/96)
  • Getting along (12/01/96)
  • Consumer conundrum (12/08/96)
  • Sticker chic (12/15/96)
  • Virgins, morons and a little dirty water (12/22/96)
  • Home for the holidays (12/29/96)

    Matt Worley

  • Let's all go to the lobby (8/11/96)
  • Unbridled optimism (8/18/96)
  • Get out of jail free card (8/25/96)
  • It's all about me, man (9/01/96)
  • The MTV generation (9/08/96)
  • Marriage realities (9/15/96)
  • Playing the game (9/22/96)
  • Moving, part XVIII (9/29/96)
  • Bargain basement (10/06/96)
  • No one lives happily ever after anymore (10/20/96)
  • Is all this really necessary? (10/27/96)
  • Glancing blows (11/03/96)
  • Nostalgia part one: baseball cards and arcade games (11/10/96)
  • Nostalgia part two: Star Wars figures and Legos (11/17/96)
  • Don't get too close to my fantasy (11/24/96)
  • Inspiration (12/01/96)
  • We know what you need (12/08/96)
  • There's a message in here somewhere (12/15/96)
  • Things I learned last year (12/29/96)

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