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Fall 2004
Special Supplement: Labor Day 2004
Less A Job Than An Adventure: Confessions of a Telemarketer
Chances are pretty slim that anyone you know has been killed in a terrorist
attack, but you and everyone you know has been interrupted, inconvenienced,
and even downright harassed by telemarketers. Telemarketers like me.
By Milton Fazoo
Thought into Action: Lawrence Goodwyn on Democratic Movements
Democratic
movements are surprisingly rare in history, since the vast level
of organization and open lines of communication that
must be built for
real democratic action to occur are daunting.
By Hayden Childs
The Minutemen: Put It In Simple Words
Working men are pissed.
By Leonard Pierce
Interview: Paul Lussier
“I had no idea what it truly meant
to take the perspective of the working man, the common woman, the
black, the native American Indian, the fey,
feminized aide de camp to George Washington — what it really meant to
bring these people to the story of the American Revolution.”
By Robert Birnbaum
Feeling Like a Tool: Demons and the Working Girl on
“Buffy”
Leave it to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to give us a major TV character dealing
with recognizable service-industry work in all of its brain-numbing
detail.
By Elisabeth
Orr
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Letter from the Editor
In a sense, I am the editor of this beyond-pointless publication, but in a larger, and certainly more seminal sense, I am the editor of your puny lives, noting the kernels of goodness and cruelly excising with the blue pencil of my mind the far more plentiful dross.
BY MCCHESNEY DUNTZ
These are people who died, died Ray Charles
By John James
Elvin Jones
By Phil Nugent
Steve Lacy
By Austin Swinburn
Robert Quine
By Matt Baab & Hayden Childs
Ronald Reagan
By Tom Block
Ronald Reagan
By Phil Nugent
Adriana La Cerva
By Scott Von Doviak
The Ties That Bind
American marriage in crisis
BY GREG T. HOUGH
Fresh off the Boat
The first-ever High Hat Interactive Crossword
BY JOE BOUCHER
Fate and Desire at Naptime
Tom Perrotta's Little Children
BY JOHN JAMES
Man, Superman & Policeman
The comic-noir of Powers
BY LEONARD PIERCE
More Than a Master of Everyday Horror
The films of Michael Haneke
BY BRONWYN JONES
Not a Miracle But a Machine Gun
The case for Dogville
BY GARY MAIRS
Beware of Dogville
The case against …
BY PHIL NUGENT
The Bottom Shelf
Bad Trips
BY SCOTT VON DOVIAK
Music to Nap By
Blonde Redhead’s Misery Is a Butterfly
BY ALLISON BYRNES
Jagged, Sustained and Honking
Basic (aural) training with Lee Hyla
BY STEVE HICKEN
Bozos, Boogies, Beaners, Zips and Berserkers
The four or five funny guys of the Firesign Theatre
BY LEONARD PIERCE
Point of Reckoning
The dreamscapes of R.E.M.’s best album
BY MICHAEL TOMCZYSZYN
The Tale of the Tape
Lessons from a cassette collection
BY ANDY WILSON
Bastard Night
Parenting in the Age of Irony with the WB's Tuesday lineup
BY SHAUNA MCKENNA
Glad Tidings
“The Sopranos” Season Five
BY TOM BLOCK
Cautionary Tales from TV Land, Part 1
“The Ben Stiller Show”
BY CHRISTOPHER
ROBERSON
Cautionary Tales from TV Land, Part 2
“Freaks & Geeks”
BY DAVID ROTHSCHILD
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