Nick: As we left things last week, Joe and I were nearing the top of what we hoped was Baldy mountain. The sun was setting, Joe’s girlfriend Kari was calling the police, Chris Ross and Rich Park were preparing a rescue mission, and we were on the brink of collapse. Go to article

®TMark’s first act of corporate sabotage was a prank so poetic, so universally appealing that people assume it’s an urban legend, like the Nieman-Marcus recipe story, or the one about the guy whose kidneys got ripped off by a prostitute while he was passed out in the hotel bathtub. Go to article

How does one order an amorphous mass of impressions into a rational reality? Naming. What is that angular blob? A chair. What is that flat blob? The wall. Of course, naming does not begin or end with the wall, or the name attached to it, or the amorphous mass or potential set of amorphous masses which might be named chairs. Go to article

TSL: Hey, Mikey.

Mikey: Are you doing my Chinese symbols? To make fun of me? You fucks.

TSL: The interview has already started. Go to interview

Last semester Comedy Central’s game show Win Ben Stein’s Money came to Pomona in search of contestants, and Sagehens flocked to try out for the show. Who is Ben Stein and what is his show all about? Go to article

Having grown up a lover of Bloom County, Pogo, and The Far Side–having grown up at all–I must admit I had a soft spot in my heart for the art of comics before I heard Art Spiegelman’s Comix 101 lecture at CMC’s Athenaeum on Tuesday. Go to article

Have YOU ever heard of us? We aren’t affiliated with any label you’ve ever heard of, we don’t have hordes of good-looking babes shouting our names, and we’ve never even had a concert (unless you count wandering around Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley with a guitar belting out our odd lyrics a concert). Go to article

The Rock: The Rock Says...The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment By David Tuohy Arts & Features Editor Professional wrestling, as cultural phenomenon, or symptom, occupies a space unlike any other. Its extraordinary television ratings, its formidable merchandising industry, and, most recently, its unexpected dominance on bookshelves all testify to the scope and immediacy of its effect on America. Go to article

Mick Foley: Have a Nice Day -- A Tale of Blood and Sweat Socks By David Roth Managing Editor So I guess I won the WWF book sweepstakes this week: David Tuohy got stuck with a book by a relentlessly self-aggrandizing narcissist with a tendency to forget to wear a shirt, choke women (dude!), and spout glib witticisms such as "know your role." And I get five hundred pages of earnest biography from a schlub from Long Island named Mick Foley who somehow went on to become the WWF champion, however briefly. Go to article

There are certain questions that challenge the very structure and foundation of our society, our discursive monoculture and the grounded center of political ontology. These questions include, but are not limited to, the following: How does one make ethical decisions in modernity? How many licks does it take, etc? Go to article

Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong. After the tragic death of keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in ‘96 and the departure of long time bassist D’Arcy, the Pumpkins released their fifth album, entitled Machina: The Machines of God on February 29. Go to article

Major labels have always cultivated talents they can’t market. They’ve figured out that they need to nurture some bands which do not turn astronomical or instant profits. Holding on to more than just the latest crop of teen superstars singing all sugar and no substance is one of the ways that music makes progress. Go to article