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Steeltown was headbanger heaven. Heavy metal devotees stomped the streets of my hometown in their mustard-yellow Kodiak boots, fingering their long, ratty hair behind their ears exactly like Wayne Campbell, the jackets of their Canadian tuxedos ...
Did you have that stupid idea in high school too? That on prom night or graduation, you and your two or three hippie or punk or goth friends (the only ones you had) would go, all right, but wear tuxedos (if you were girls) or drag (if you were ...
I haven"t cared about the Oscars since 1992's Silence of the Lambs sweep. Like, I presume, 99 percent of Takimag readers, I won"t be tuning in on Feb. 26, when one of the broadcast's "highlights," we"re informed, will be the ...
The most "Valentine's Day" thing I"m doing this Valentine's Day is publishing this Valentine's Day column. Of sorts. Regulars know I"m not much of a romantic. Freud said that "love and work" are "all there is," and ...
Americans left and right are, understandably, only interested in "Canadian initiatives," ("worthwhile" or otherwise) when these can be whittled into pointed sticks with which to poke their domestic opponents. So ever since Trump's ...
"She made a show about how single career women could still have fulfilling lives, with the help of the powerful TV executive she was married to." My Facebook friend Tom Forsythe, besides being one helluva Muhammad cartoonist, is also ...
Women rarely fail to let me down. There's a Roz Chast cartoon showing one lady shouting at another: "The price of Kleenex WAS SO 47 cents in 1963!" That sentence approximates roughly 86% of the "conversations" I"ve had with (or ...
Frank Sinatra's Secret Service code name was "Napoleon." Before you can finish asking, "Why did he need one?" you"ll remember: JFK was practically a member of the Rat Pack, one of the few men for whom über-alpha Sinatra ...
Star Wars makes you stupid. Star Trek makes you smart. Yes, both fandoms pursue cosplay, compulsive crap collection, and other life-wasters. But whereas Star Wars is a masturbatory end-in-itself, some Trekkers have at least pivoted their passion ...
If I"d known, as a teenager, that Lake Superior State University existed, maybe I"d have bothered getting a degree after all. For one thing, these guys usher in spring by burning a giant snowman. (It was "a Snow Ayatollah Khomeini ...
On the topic of "noteworthy accomplishments," here's an ironic one: With How the Scots Invented the Modern World, author Arthur Herman somehow wrote a book that is tedious in direct reverse proportion to its subject"that is (as the ...
"I lost my whole family in Auschwitz. Seriously: I waited in the gift shop for hours…" "Joan Rivers Taki's particularly hydrophobic commenters will greet with disbelief the news that, as it turns out, I"m only 2 percent ...
