Interview with a smoker
Having worked in a small town grocery store this past summer I learned that the average cash out for tobacco products was $1,000 a day,…
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Sex and the campus
The advertising and marketing executives are always looking for untapped markets, and so it is with dating. We are always looking for people we haven’t…
How to throw a solid Halloween party
When it comes to Halloween, it’s not the most exciting time for adults. Children are excited as they get to collect massive amount of candy,…
Reflecting our collective fears
Halloween is a time of year that is surrounded by darkness, fear and celebration. Witches, ghosts, bats and vampires are all popular images that symbolize…
Real-life witches that don’t celebrate Halloween?
When you think of Wicca, do you imagine a really weird pseudo-religion that involves creepy ladies surrounding a bubbling cauldron, tossing in human eyeballs and…
No Shalloween for me
When searching for Halloween costumes for myself and my teenaged daughter, the vast majority of costumes I find in stores and online for women and…
From Dracula to Twilight
Today, vampires are sissies compared to what they used to be. I love classic vampire flicks, Bela Lugosi as Dracula or the rodent like Count…
One person’s terrorist…
As the old cliché goes: “one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.” This implies that certain values are ultimately subjective, which is a lesson…
I don’t have tattoos
While I’m constantly admiring the tattoos of others, I don’t think I would ever get one for myself. If I am correct in my belief…
Ink as inspiration
I ended up getting my snake tattoo in kind of a funny way. I had doodled out the design while bored in some useless class…