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...other day, Dowd went into her ghastly "us-girls-dishing" mode, in which she talked about "guys trapped in their tiresome libidos." Dowd in the us-girls mode sometimes mentions "my girlfriend." I wonder if the Times' op-ed page, which once took itself so seriously, would publish a male columnist who wrote about gals trapped in their tiresome sex drives, and described going shopping with "my boyfriend...
...abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across central Ontario's Elephant Lake yesterday, running the boat at that rapid trolling speed that gives muskies an appetite and the impulse to lunge...
...secession of an entire group of Americans that declares itself a nation--different, cooler, better--through its brands: Maglite, Volvo, Apple. Alternative consumption, if you will. Is it any surprise that this market includes people who, as teenagers, were combing record bins for 12-in., imported Depeche Mode singles--pricey, sure, for just a few minutes of music, but of such higher quality...
...That's fine. But don't forget about writing good songs while you're busy making sure every genre feels included in the conversation. From Blink-182's "Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens...
...wants to bring her MTV audience over, though, and their moms with them. Lewis, says her producer Mary Duffy, intends to be an intergenerational "conduit of information" about hot-button topics like school violence, depression and teen sex--a topic Lewis raised at MTV, in true confessional-host mode, by talking about a temporary vow of celibacy she took. "So many young girls stopped me in the street then and told me they made different choices [about having sex]," she recalls...