Rosie Demario

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Stop Snoring Pillows

| August 21, 2012

Have you tried everything to help stop snoring, but nothing seems to work? Worry no more, find here how to stop snoring. Researchers have come up with a pillow that has been claimed to stop the sleeper from snoring during the night. There are benefits to having the pillow that helps a person to stop [...]

Opera Catty? Say It Ain’t So!

| July 10, 2012

Opera gossip is particularly harsh, as a minor bulletin board opera school user found out very quickly. Silence is golden, and speaking out can mean the death of a career. Knowing none of this, the new member, seeking to amuse the polity, posted what in the days of Walter Winchell was known as a “blind [...]

Conservative Clothing – It Comes And Goes

| July 4, 2012

WHEN a child first thinks of living to see the century turn, he always does some arithmetic to figure out how old he will be when it happens. I was in the second grade when I did my calculations: 2,000 take away 1936 equals 64. I stared at the figure, trying to imagine myself at [...]

Desktop Publishing, Zines and Other Stories

| June 3, 2012

In the age of desktop publishing, anyone with a point of view and enough RAM is a potential mogul, but in the world of subculture magazines, only the hip survive. It follows then that a slew of West Coast fashion and lifestyle journals, weighted with slick fonts and award-winning graphics, and catering to literate, 20-something [...]

People Love To Know About People

| May 22, 2012

(A Classic essay by Andrew Ferguson) I am one of those folks Barbra Streisand sang about so dramatically, the people who read People. Each Tuesday my issues arrives, under my wife’s name, and I gobble it up like a giant eclair, in private, in wolfish gulps. Having done so I do not feel, pace Barbra, [...]

Can Biographies Be Kept Gossip Free?

| March 15, 2012

Life has only occasionally set me down among biographers. Once, sharing an office with a future eminent Man of Letters, I fell into discussion with the Mol about his biography-in-progress of a minor artistic figure known to be homosexual, but not to have had many regular relationships. Later, this came up in conversation with a [...]

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