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Moodswing: Acclimation Processnew

Is there a way to prepare for making out with movie stars?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Hollis Gillespie  |  10-01-2008  |  Comedy

Blisternew

With all due deference, the intention of tonight's festivities is to raise some $5,000 for a team of bicyclists riding the 165-mile stretch from Miami to Key West in the name of philanthropy.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  10-01-2008  |  Comedy

Ask a Mexican: What is an Anchor Baby?new

In popular parlance, it's a term used by Know Nothings to deride the children of immigrants whom relatives can use to sponsor visas and other government goodies. Though the Know Nothings would love to have you believe only illegal Mexicans are capable of having anchor babies, cases like yours have been occurring since the days of Virginia Dare.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  09-30-2008  |  Comedy

Blister: The Sequel to Migrationnew

Crazy genius Doug Rhodehamel has spontaneously emitted another one of his turn-the-household-item-of-your-choice-into-a-creature installations, this one under the name of Migration 2.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-18-2008  |  Comedy

Hop On the Busnew

The Ghetto Science Department of Transportation has designated H.O.V. (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes for the church buses.
Jackson Free Press  |  Sue Doh Nem  |  09-18-2008  |  Comedy

Ask a Mexican: More Shameless Self-Promotion (Buy Gustavo's New Book!)new

In honor of and to shamelessly promote my muy caliente libro (which deals with America's Gomorrah, the Reconquista and John Wayne!), I'm answering historical questions this week.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  09-16-2008  |  Comedy

Blisternew

“Abandon hope all ye who enter here” is not scrawled in blood on the side of the Waverly condo at Lake Eola, but as the glass door swings open, surely the desperate handprint smudges of failed exits prior can’t be a good sign.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-12-2008  |  Comedy

What's Up With All the Weird Names?new

What's up with all the weird-ass names — OK, "nontraditional" names — people are giving their kids these days? We no longer even blink when we're introduced to toddlers, teens or 20-somethings named Kaelyne, Mackenzie, or Fontina, despite the cheesy connotations.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte)  |  John Grooms  |  09-11-2008  |  Comedy

Moodswing: Cathedral Ceilingnew

There's always more than one way to let the light in.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Hollis Gillespie  |  09-10-2008  |  Comedy

Ask a Mexican: Legal Mexicans Who Can Become American Citizens But Don'tnew

"What would you calculate to be the percentage of illegal Mexicans in the United States who actually want the whole enchilada of American goodness, with all its obligations, rights and privileges, when those privileges seem to be reduced nowadays to taking it in the ass from the American government in the name of some shady interest God-knows-where?"
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  09-09-2008  |  Comedy

Blisternew

Is this the beginning or is it the end? Splashed up like a barnacled seashell on the vacant coast of Bar-BQ-Bar’s early-Wednesday-night liquor drip, a few – very few – thoughts come to mind.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-05-2008  |  Comedy

Blisternew

It’s been three days of drippy inertia and descending barometric pressure and Roy and I, and just about anybody else presently craving Vitamin D, are all chewing away at our collective last nerve in hopes that Fay will go away.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-04-2008  |  Comedy

What Every Boston Freshman Should Knownew

Freshmen, check your egos at the state line and listen up — things are not always as advertised.
Boston Phoenix  |  Clif Garboden  |  09-04-2008  |  Comedy

A Bathroom Tour of Bostonnew

You've seen the "Doors of Dublin" poster. The Phoenix offers an local alternative for dorm-room art.
Boston Phoenix  |  k. bonami and G. Turner  |  09-04-2008  |  Comedy

Moodswing: Bad Wordsnew

The things we leave behind.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Hollis Gillespie  |  09-03-2008  |  Comedy

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