The Metabolism Of A Consumer

Between The Two Poles Of Whole-truth And Half-truth Is Slung The Chancy Hammock In Which We All Rock.

As A General Rule, Fans And Idols Should Always Be Kept At Arm's Length, The Length Of The Arm To Be Proportionate To The Degree Of Sheer Idolatry Involved. Don't Take A Beatle To Lunch. Don't Wait Up To See If The Easter Bunny Is Real. Just Enjoy The Egg Hunt.

The Notion That The Great Artist Requires A Great Patron Has Been Around Since The Pharaohs. That The Born Patron Also Needs An Artist To Patronize Is A Less-studied Phenomenon.

The Rich Plankton Of Pop Heroes And Pop Villains On Which We Americans Are Accustomed To Feed, The Daily Media Soup Of Sports Figures, Ax Murderers, Politicians, And Rock Singers, The Ever-running River Of Celebs, Heavies, And Oddballs That We Use To Spice Up Our Own Relatively Humdrum Lives Has Of Late Become A Very Watery Gruel. Where Have All The Good Guys And Bad Guys Gone? Why Does Everyone Out There Look So Gray?

We Are On A Sexual Binge In This Country. ... One Consequence Of This Binge Is That While People Now Get Into Bed More Readily And A Lot More Naturally Than They Once Did, What Happens There Often Seems Less Important.