 | Bunnies and Bongs What's the best thing about being a music writer? The freebies! An amusing cover story chronicles the best and worst in promotional doo-dads, from exploding snow globes to bongs from the Happiest Place on Earth. |
 | The Hairy Primate's Guide to Women Having trouble keeping your woman happy? Forget Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. This precise and potent primer will help you navigate the gray area between Sensitive Guy and Hairy Primate without driving yourself crazy. Memorize it. |
 | Just Another Day At The Office They're tough jobs, but somebody's gotta do them -- corpse beautification, roach extermination, and trauma clean-up, that is. Fasten your gag reflex for an inside look at some of the world's most morbid occupations. |
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Sink your primitive-male chompers into an excellent love guide. Take a tour of the world's most morbid occupations. Explore the loopy legal complications of child custody and death row innocence. Learn how the Internet will revolutionize commerce. Watch the world go insane. And more! [10 articles]
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Read why three out of four reviewers recommend Air Force One to their readers who chew popcorn. Plus: recent soundtracks get their due; Aaron Spelling goes mad over Mod; and critics hash it out over When the Cat's Away, Mrs. Brown, Good Burger, Picture Perfect, and Spawn. [17 articles]
Music
Doo-dads, schmoo-dads -- why on earth do bands send trinkets to reviewers? Also: ruminations on recent work by Karl Wallkinger, Ronnie Milsap, Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead, David Byrne, and the inimitable Wu-Tang Clan. [14 articles]
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Worm makes some sorry-ass attempts at haiku. Plus: reviews of a graphic novel by Erika Lopez, a comic book by Evan Dorkin, poetry collections by Beth Lisick and Justin Chin, Joystick Nation by J.C. Herz, Leslie Epstein's Pandaemonium, J.P.S. Brown's The Outfit, and two new works about the wonderful world of toilets. [8 articles]
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