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Editor’s Note
Bridge to somewhere
The new bridge sparkled in the way only concrete does, a flat kind of matte-bright that stripped the finish off the sun, giving the hulking concrete span a clear coat appropriate for the mome
Fables of the Deconstruction
Good riddance
This was the year that I finally gave up on pop culture. No, that’s not exactly right.
Message to the People
We’re still in Kansas, Toto!
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but I’m asking readers to make one for 2009. Stay engaged! That’s it. It might be harder than you think.
Summary of My Discontent
A Christmas fable
Once, in the land then known as the United States of America in the year 2008, there was a crisis of communication.
Yep, I’m Gay
Milk’s wagon is rolling away
When I was 16, Lyman T. Johnson told me, “Don’t let the wagon roll down the hill.”
Editor’s Note
Endorsement: The shave
Farrell Stephens was terrified the first time he shaved a man’s face with a straight razor.
Fables of the Deconstruction
Who are you?
When I was in college, I was introduced to a theory that the early success of the Beatles was due, in no small part, to the fact that their songs were loaded with pronouns.




