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  • January 14, 2025
    Mark Zuckerberg Makes Meta More Masculine
    by John Warner and Kevin Guilfoile
  • August 8, 2022
    Beyond “American Pie”: Interpreting Symbolism and Allegory in the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Pop Songs: “Brandy” by Looking Glass
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • May 22, 2018
    Jordan Peterson’s Now That’s What I Call Music!
    by John Warner and Kevin Guilfoile
  • June 19, 2003
    Done in Pen, Again: More Poems by New York Times Puzzle Editor Will Shortz
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • February 4, 2002
    Cat-Hating, Tobacco-Smoking Anarchists Need Not Apply: Housing Requests and Offers for Anti-World Economic Forum Demonstrators
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • December 10, 2001
    Actual Pull Quotes from Bob Greene’s Nationally Syndicated Newspaper Column
    by Dave Reidy and Kevin Guilfoile
  • August 15, 2001
    Crossing Over
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • May 10, 2001
    Norse Legends Reference Pages.
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • February 22, 2001
    Art Test
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • January 12, 2001
    Beyond “American Pie”: Interpreting Symbolism and Allegory in the Other Songs of Don McLean
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • October 19, 2000
    VH-1’s Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll, Adjusted for Not Sucking by Dan, a Viacom Intern, With Minimal Input From Dan’s Older Brother Jim, Whose Girlfriend Just Broke Up With Him Over the Phone
    by Kevin Guilfoile
  • October 12, 2000
    Mary Astor Spit Peanuts: The First in a Series of Fictional Anecdotes and Stories Featuring Abbott and Costello
    by Kevin Guilfoile
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