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1998 Stories by Dave Shulman

• The Information Hersheyhighway

  published November 19, 1998

  Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote that each of us has one true freedom: the freedom to decide how we feel about... More >>

• Zany Romantic November Valentine Triptych

  published November 12, 1998

  Whether of stone or of gold, whether bleeding or cold, from their bottoms to their cockles to the homes where they is, we find it in them to... More >>

• Halloween Costume Ideas

  published November 5, 1998

  Every holiday has its optimal costumes. Christmas is pajamas and a robe, Groundhog Day a suit and tie, Yom Kippur a dark, propellerless beanie. As... More >>

• 80's October Surprise Nostalgia

  published October 15, 1998

  Once upon a time there was a man named Multinational Corporate Interests who liked to play with dolls. His favorite doll looked like a geriatric... More >>

• Fireflys and Fruit Flys

  published October 8, 1998

  Happy birthday, Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890-August 19, 1977). Who would've guessed that 108 years later (and lacking a DNA-binding domain) you'd... More >>

• Hot Nice Lunch Forever

  published October 1, 1998

  One day I had a real nice lunch. And went shopping. Actually the shopping was first, then the lunch. Both were real nice. My name is... More >>

• Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

  published September 24, 1998

  : "Sanity today appears to rest largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world - the interpersonal world, and the realm of human... More >>

• Nature Without Man

  published September 17, 1998

  Eventually at some point sooner or later after all is said and done when push comes to shove when it comes right down to the bottom line at the... More >>

• On Tension and Transparency

  published September 10, 1998

  A number of Warner Bros. cartoons from the middle of the century made use of portable black-hole decals that could be applied to convenient... More >>

• Testing; one, two three

  published September 3, 1998

  Kids, do your chain-smoking parents get all liquored up after work, chase you into your bedroom and pistol-whip you half to death?! Well, now you... More >>

• The Consonance of Fowl

  published August 27, 1998

  Hatched cute and fuzzy, competitively bred for sacrifice to the gods Sanders, Ryckebosch and Zacky Farms, how well do you know your... More >>

• Prices are Effective

  published August 13, 1998

  8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, through 11 p.m. Tuesday, August 4, 1998. Boneless skinless chicken breasts Randall Farms Moist & Tender 1.99 lb. limit... More >>

• Night Lite

  published August 6, 1998

  Some of you might remember: Before the second coming of Reagan (Bush) and His New World Hors d'Oeuvres, people used to come home from work while... More >>

• Revelations

  published July 23, 1998

  When the door opens, the light comes on. Real Fridge Cam Openings ( More >>

• Phil Hartman 1948-1998

  published June 11, 1998

  Writer/designer/comedian/actor Phil Hartman died at home in his sleep early last Thursday morning from two bullets to the head and one to the... More >>