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  • Hopping Mad

    By on March 30, 2005

    Walking toward my Unitarian church on Easter morning, I struck up a conversation with an older gentleman who was headed my direction. He was, like...

  • Heavy Lifting

    By on March 23, 2005

    There are two things I hate about writing this column. The first is that I almost always end up writing it on a Sunday night....

  • Fag Bashing

    By on March 16, 2005

    The word lingered on my brain for about 30 seconds: fags. I mulled it for a second, was a little surprised to see it, and...

  • Bubbling Over

    By on March 9, 2005

    On the way home from work this evening, I stopped at the Kmart on Fourth for some cotton balls. I like shopping at the Kmart...

  • Condom-Free Porn

    By on February 16, 2005

    I have this porno flick that was made in 1983. I'm not going to tell you the title. Let's just say it's 55 minutes of...

  • Pluck Off

    By on February 9, 2005

    I don't know what came over me the night, somewhere in the throes of adolescence, that I let my friends put make-up on me. I...

  • Old Pipes

    By on February 2, 2005

    Though she's being nice about it, our downstairs lesbian neighbor has informed us through a series of handwritten notes Scotch-taped to our door that our...

  • Absent Recognition

    By on January 26, 2005

    This past year was groundbreaking for gays in black journalism. From black churches supporting or opposing gay marriage to the alarming rise in HIV infection...

  • Identity Krises

    By on January 26, 2005

    Until my senior year in college, I was half the person I am today. I don't mean that this was the point at which I...

  • Fantasy Island

    By on January 12, 2005

    My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...

  • Busted!

    By on January 5, 2005

    Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...

  • You Shouldn't Have

    By on December 15, 2004

    A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...

  • Equal Opportunity

    By on December 8, 2004

    Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...

  • Suit Your Shelf

    By on December 1, 2004

    There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...

  • First Class

    By on November 17, 2004

    In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...