Mysterious airline disappearance, stolen passports, Muslim country... all points to Arabs, but you can't say that these days. And the in...

The first half of this post will be general observations, and the second half personal stories to flesh things out. Because females are mo...

An earlier post looked at how kids these days have only their nuclear family to socialize with, especially the ever-present parents. A firs...

Exactly what the title says. From August 1982. Even nudie mags had cool design back then.

Another way to see how child-like popular culture has become is to look at portrayals of romance, courtship, and so on. Adults might have ...

More detail on the love of all things paradoxical, incongruous, irreverent, and off-beat during the '80s. Note the lack of super-extreme...

I've been puzzling over what other cultural  links  might be shared among the Indo-Europeans and Caucasus peoples. Language is the usual...

Camp, meaning the exaggerated ridiculousness for comic effect, can come in naive or deliberate forms (using Sontag's terms). Naive, when...

This afternoon I dropped by the local hipster barber shop, and began chatting with the girl cutting my hair. The conversation got around to ...