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...threatening threes: the third year for The Feelies. Each January I pause, in my shamble toward senility, to honor some of the people, things and events I?ve written about in the previous 12 months. With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines...
...rock, or "art wave." "I hate that," protests guitarist and lead singer Alex Kapranos. "People always call us arty. What the hell does that mean? It's not like we got a band together as some kind of conceptual abstract sound sculpture. We got together to make a pop band." Maybe, but they did gain notoriety through their own arty happenings. In the spirit of Andy Warhol's Factory, the band occupied the top floors of an abandoned Glasgow art-deco warehouse dubbed "the Chateau." They would host events, playing to a word-of-mouth crowd, while others used...
...parents who really need their child to take the animal, is there any hope? Maybe. Morgan Whittaker feels her responsibility to her cats--and her besieged dad--keenly. She inherited three cats at the age of 16, and now they live at home with Pop. "For next year," she says, "my top priorities are an apartment and a roommate who likes cats...
...primary chemical in charge of that function is nitric oxide. It's a vascular traffic cop, activating the muscles that control the expansion and contraction of blood vessels. If the mind is in the mood--or when you pop a nitric-oxide-boosting drug such as Viagra or Levitra--the body responds. Men tend to be more focused on genital stimulation than women, so they are more likely to perceive an increased blood flow to the genitals as arousal, while women may be unaware of it. That may be one reason why trials of Viagra on women have been disappointing...
...linguistic distinction between S&M and SM may seem tiny, but the pop-culture, peep-show version of S&M has little to do with the real lives of those who practice SM (which is why sexologists who study sadomasochism have now also adopted the shorter abbreviation). S&M is Madonna in kinky outfits, Anne Rice chapters that run to the louche--even a recent Dannon ad featuring a woman in a French-maid uniform. Such S&M imagery has become so common that our astonishment at Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of leather and pain 20 years ago now seems...