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2002 Stories by Robert Lloyd

• Art and Leisure

  published October 17, 2002

  It began when the local brand-name coffeeporium closed for renovations -- they are going to make the cash box bigger, I guess -- and I decided... More >>

• This Ain't No Juilliard!

  published October 10, 2002

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• Time and Cookies

  published September 26, 2002

  I have owned three watches in my life. The best thing about the first was a bucking bronco on the face that appeared to move when you rotated... More >>

• Heroes Dream

  published September 19, 2002

  It isn’t surprising that the first major cultural response to the events of last September 11 was to call out the rock stars, first to a... More >>

• Can I Get a Witness?

  published September 5, 2002

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• The All-Nighter

  published August 22, 2002

  BED. I HAVE NEVER LIKED GOING TO BED -- IN THE SENSE OF GOING TO sleep. The bed as an article of furniture, as a tool, I of course... More >>

• The All-Nighter

  published August 22, 2002

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• A Fan's Notes

  published August 8, 2002

  Illustration by Hadley Hooper KENNETH KOCH, MY FAVORITE LIVING POET (IN A FIELD OF, MORE or less, one), recently became a formerly living... More >>

• Absent Friends

  published July 25, 2002

  The first thing I see when I turn on my computer, and the last thing I see when I turn it off, is a picture of my dead friend Deirdre. (She is... More >>

• Whistling Tunes

  published July 11, 2002

  Photo by Karin Catt NEIL FINN FIRST GOT REALLY FAMOUS AS THE front man of Crowded House, whose gorgeous, quietly anthemic 1987 single "Don't... More >>

• Noses Off

  published July 11, 2002

  As a recognized authority on the subject (recognized, that is, within the confines of these offices), I have been asked to review The Powerpuff... More >>

• Facial

  published June 27, 2002

  I am possibly not the worst-looking guy in the world, but there are certainly moments when I feel the title within my reach. Mornings are... More >>

• The Curse of the Cat Person

  published June 13, 2002

  There are three cats living here now; there have been as many as four, but never less than two since the afternoon, so long ago and so just... More >>

• The Half-life of Tools

  published May 30, 2002

  A few years ago, passing through Eugene, Oregon, where there are many hippies and no sales tax, I bought a used flute -- a thoroughly manly... More >>

• Walking to Larchmont

  published May 16, 2002

  I have lived where I live for a very long time. Embarrassingly long, I sometimes think. I am in a way surprised that you find me still here.... More >>

• Teen Spirit

  published May 2, 2002

  Ben Kweller is 20 years old, looks about 10, and made his major-label debut at 15 in a baby grunge trio called Radish that was the subject of a... More >>

• Bugged

  published May 2, 2002

  The ants are back. A little early this year, and not yet in the expected crowds, but definitely back. Up until a few... More >>

• Boy's Life

  published April 18, 2002

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• The Binge

  published April 4, 2002

  Not so very long ago, around the time I stopped watching television for a living, I began to read again, compulsively. Read books, I mean.... More >>

• Not I, the Jury

  published March 21, 2002

  I receive a jury summons. In the past, I‘ve always claimed financial hardship by virtue of self-employment, and they have been content to leav... More >>

• Hills

  published March 7, 2002

  Aldea Hill, as it was and may still be known to the little children of Encino Village, is where the street I grew up on rises steeply to meet... More >>

• The New Mall

  published February 21, 2002

  Photo by Bill SmithI have before me a picture post card — really I do — dated September 4, 1942. One of those old-fashioned cards, with brig... More >>

• High Fidel

  published January 31, 2002

  With Showtime‘s Fidel, Fidel Castro finally has his biopic. Compañero Che Guevara got his all the way back in 1969 -- a real Twentieth Century Fox ... More >>

• Snowflake-Special

  published January 17, 2002

  Photo by David Zeiger Senior Year is the latest in a spate of teenage institutional documentary series that has included American... More >>

• Not the Real World

  published January 3, 2002

  Photo by Jay Maidment/HBO Though in no sense “best,” the television event of the year was certainly the destruction of the World Trade Cente... More >>