Popular Culture
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Roll out the red carpet for this issue because it’s spilling over like a starlet’s decolletage at the Golden Globes, stuffed with pleasing prose, promotable poetry, and attractive artwork. “The Sensuality of the StoreMore Console Table” inverts conventional wisdom about sex tips and furniture assembly, “Properly Bracing Yourself, as Well as Your Loved Ones, for Hurricane Impact ” offers helpful advice for coping with severe weather, and “The Fuckable Prometheus” paints a grim picture of family dynamics following the invention of sex robots.”No Comment” follows Managing Editor Kelly Anneken as she searches for the elusive Star Whackers, and “Smack-Talk of the Town” examines the battle for the souls of young-adult fiction readers.
So put down that airport bestseller, silence your iPhone, and tear yourself away from downloading pornography so you can enjoy every moment of this commercial-free presentation of Hobo Pancakes!
With cultural sincerity,
The Hobo Pancakes Team
“Whacking With the Stars”
by Kelly Anneken, managing editor
“An Open Letter to the Marlboro Gold Pack in My Left Front Pocket”
“An Open Letter to Facebook”
by Geoff Watkinson
“Ripping the Headlines”
by Paul Lander
“Bank Robbery Stuns Sesame Street”
by Colleen Wilson
“A Fuckable Prometheus”
by Ivan Hernandez
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is off this month, to prepare for holidays at the Vatican. The romantic advice column “Ask Papa Ratzi” will return in the next issue.
“Breaking from the Blerd”
by OJ Patterson
“Him, Her, Us”
by Lucille Belucci
“If Brian Wilson and Diana Ross Switched Places”
by Michael Fowler
“Dear Daughter”
by Shanyn Wright
“An Essay From the Asylum”
by William Counsellor
“Autocorrect”
by Camille Griep
“Properly Bracing Yourself, as Well as Your Loved Ones, for Hurricane Impact”
by Chris Krueger
“Weather or Not”
by Peter Lingard
Chronicles of Higher Education
“Baby Lambs”
by Emil DeAndreis
“The Sensuality of the StoreMore Console Table”
by Lily Dodge
“Elderquake”
by David Breitkopf
“The Shopping Cart Museum”
by Kate LaDew
“The Executioner’s Son”
by Kris Baranovic
“Negative Side Effects May Include”
by Michael Chaney
“Why I’m Choosing Heterosexuality”
by Michael Fowler
“Why Do You Hit Me When I’m Exercising Next to the Road?”
by Paul Handley
“Psycho Wars”
by Tim Chorney
“My Attachment to Staples”
by Tim Bass
“Quite Literally”
by Kristi Woodard
“The Late Unpleasantness Between the Generations”
by Arthur Heifetz
“I Love My Job”
by Audra Ralls
“Reclaiming the Beautiful Swan”
by Isa Hopkins, editor-at-large
“Where To Find Marilyn Monroe At Your Local Mall”
by Andrea Laurion