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• “This place is dead anyway, man.”

• British Knight sneakers

• Quality television

• Chef Paul Prudhomme’s pole vaulting days

• Wicker

• My metabolism

• The Women’s Liberation Movement

• Ronald Reagan’s memory

• The little Arkansas girl described in the chain letter I neglected to forward to 50 people, causing her untimely death

• Princess Diana

• The ferret in my trousers

• Hall & Oates

• Any foreigner dumb enough to fuck with Bruce Willis in any of the Die Hard movies

• Anna Nicole Smith’s husband

• The art of ventriloquism

• My hopes of winning the lottery

• People without HMO coverage

• Rudy Huxtable’s fish

• The Ropers

• Puffy paint

• Mr. Potato Head’s pipe

• Bernie (from Weekend at Bernie’s)

• Maude Flanders

• The colors teal and mauve

• My left testicle (from misuse)

• Piracy (Arrgh! It be a travesty!)

• Crystal Pepsi

• That midget from Kid Rock

• Disco (again)

• Latin

• Optimus Prime (temporarily)

• My roommate (soon)

• Chivalry

Saturday Night Live

• Common sense

• A growing number of my hair follicles

• The old lady who swallowed a fly

• Acid-washed jeans

• Stryper’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bid

• Jell-O Pudding Pops

• The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin (wait a week or two)

• The radio star

• Any meal ever put in front of Rosie O’Donnell

• Gary Coleman’s pituitary gland

• Bazooka Joe’s depth perception

• The Jordache pony

• Bob Hope (almost)

• That guy in my trunk

• Metallica’s dignity

• Michael Landon

• The obligatory tit shot in PG movies

• Bob Dole’s hand

• Mary Todd Lincoln

• My pet rock

• Napster

• This joke