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JAMES PARKER

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Taken under

A close look at the ‘dismal trade’
Blessed are the undertakers, for they take care of it.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 23, 2007

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Sexual Halen

The little Dutch boys who could
Good news from the literary delivery room: the ignoble genre of rock biography has just given birth to its first genuine comedy.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 23, 2007

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Till rust do us part

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that an artificial-intelligence researcher at the University of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, has predicted that, by 2050, robot-human marriage will be legal in the state of Massachusetts.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 17, 2007

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A hello to arms

In a New Hampshire tourney, our reporter takes arm wrestling down to its basics: power, triceps, and Kahlua beach balls
“Get psyched! Get PISSED!”
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 17, 2007

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The pursuit of perfection

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that a Lexus parked on the grounds of an English stately home was “sexually attacked” by a peacock
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 12, 2007

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Heart to heart

David Grubin looks at our most important muscle
We don’t hear too much any more from the people who think heart transplants are a bad idea.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 09, 2007

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Sexual dismay in the Milky Way

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that two professors from the University of Pennsylvania have concluded that men are currently happier than women
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2007

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Difficult people

Tom Perrotta keeps his characters company through the bumps and bumbles of American life
As a reader of fiction, at this point in life I’m sort of in my late Imperial phase — a sensationalist, easily distracted, with a vulgar appetite for brilliance.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2007

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The Cult

Born into This | Roadrunner
Let’s be viral.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 01, 2007

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I now pronounce you man and wi-fi

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading about the Bosnian man who began an adulterous affair in an Internet chat room, only to discover that the woman to whom he was chatting was his own wife.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 26, 2007

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''Great Journeys''

From Marco Polo to Twain and Shackleton, with a bit of Pico Iyer
Now that the jungle is withdrawing, and the wilderness is tenanted, the brief of the travel writer has altered somewhat.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 24, 2007

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Smells like mean spirit

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that the Minneapolis airport bathroom in which GOP senator Larry Craig was arrested on June 11 has become a tourist attraction
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 19, 2007

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Angels in America

If the world’s saintliest woman can have doubts about God, surely the world’s most cynical man can also question his non-belief?
The publication this month of the selected correspondence of Mother Teresa has revealed that, for many years, the Saint of Calcutta entertained significant doubts about the existence of God.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 19, 2007

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Pipe-hittin’ kitten, emblem of the new Britain

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon seeing a photograph of the troubled English rock star Pete Doherty apparently administering a dose of crack to his pet cat
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 12, 2007

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Wings of desire

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that in-flight entertainment is exposing children to images of an increasingly violent and sexual nature.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 05, 2007

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Bull market

Flipping Out  on Bravo, plus Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge and Meerkat Manor
Jeff Lewis is real, baby.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 04, 2007

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Ashes to ashes

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning of the Russian man whose penis was set on fire by his ex-wife as he sat naked in front of the TV, drinking vodka
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 29, 2007

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In search of Kerouac

‘Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?’ . . . Lowell?!
Ashare drops me off, frantic Matt Ashare from my paper, swilling coffee in a ceramic mug at the wheel of his sulky-blue Saturn Ion and ranting about dogfighting.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 29, 2007

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Kundalini conjuror

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that Britney Spears may recently have spent the night with the heavy-metal illusionist Criss “Mindfreak” Angel
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 23, 2007

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Bouncers tell all

Tales from behind the velvet rope
A young man of my acquaintance, a callow pube of a London club-goer, got himself bounced not long ago from an establishment on the King’s Road.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 22, 2007
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