McGraw-Hill, 2001 By: Michael Zivick Jesus Christ, George Carlin, General George S. Patton and the privates of several Presidents may seem like odd bedfellows (or bookfellows, in this case), [ … ]
Subtlety makes most scents for that aura of cleanliness
Jes Alexander, Special to the Chronicle Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Home fragrances probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but I fear the industry has run amok. This [ … ]
Sorry, Martha. Housekeeping’s not my idea of ‘reality’
Jes Alexander, Special to The Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2005 My friend Alison e-mailed me a few weeks before Martha Stewart left prison and forwarded me an application to be [ … ]
Sorry, Martha. Housekeeping's not my idea of 'reality'
Jes Alexander, Special to The Chronicle Saturday, March 5, 2005 My friend Alison e-mailed me a few weeks before Martha Stewart left prison and forwarded me an application to be [ … ]
Do I look thinner?
It has been a while, since health organizations and the government have been trying to implement measures to drop considerably the number of obese people in the UK. A survey [ … ]
Monkeyman
Whatever happened to the monkey man? I remember the short-lived hysteria he plagued upon the people of India, bounding from rooftop to rooftop terrorizing the threadbare villages, resulting in the [ … ]
Turn and Cough It Up
The Dismembered Black Knight’s immortal punchline, “’Tis but a flesh wound,” really rounds into form when you’re living without health insurance. Since I can’t even afford antibiotics to battle the [ … ]
It’s All in a Name
Men are taught very young that what women really want is tall, dark and handsome. Well, as a 5-foot 6-inch redhead shaped like a bowling pin, I find those qualifications [ … ]
Ice-Fishing: One Man’s Pursuit of Manliness
There are two groups of people in Northern Minnesota – those that hunt, fish, and own snow-mobiles, and those that do not. The ones that belong to the first camp [ … ]
Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: The Revolutionary Potential of Art
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” -William S. Burroughs In a recent article, Serbian filmmaker [ … ]