Issue 5 - Fall 2004
Journal of the
"Ontology on the go!"

The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society. Every issue is filled with an astonishing mix of poetry, essays, criticism, opinion, deconstruction, humor, essays on museums, dance, home and office décor, household hints, communications, advertising, health and fitness, etiquette, gardening, urban living, culture, Kultcha, film, cars, theater, biographies, profiles, food reviews, internet culture, technology, writing on art, music, fashion, design, architecture, travel, history, software/hardware reviews, politics, business, economics, current events, interviews, cooking, sex, science, and whatever isn't on this list. We find zen in the most un-zen places, poetics where you'd least expect them, and ontology is always on the go here at J LHLS.

Issue 5 - Fall 2004

Table of Contents

Welcome to Issue 5. In our first issue I mentioned that time flies when you're over forty and it seems like I wrote that editorial only yesterday.
Editorial

That being said, in these past few weeks of May, it has been impossible to avoid the story of the seventeen-year emergence of the Cicada. It is their year and the media is letting them have it. I understand the attention. It is a fascinating story.
Cicadas
By William Roper

Let us define bickering as being between a man and a woman. Some activists want to expand the definition to include same-sex arguing, but that would only weaken some of society's most sacred values.
Between a Man and a Woman
By Tom Good

I'm not kidding. This thing is the most amazing cleaning product I've ever tried. In case you haven't seen it, it looks like a white sponge, only lighter and squishier.
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is the shit
By Laurel Sutton

Oh New York City, New York... where do I even begin? You're like Pennsylvania's older, cooler cousin.
New York City News
By Ertel Gray

Not too long ago, I was a 40-something straight screenwriter. Then I awoke one morning to discover that I'd become a hot young gay novelist.
Coming Out
By Allison Burnett

Sequential art jumped the paper to pixel divide like a gazelle. Then, at Plan 9 Publishing, it sort of jumped back.
Paper Freaks in the Digital Age
By Ginger Mayerson

Because balancing a laptop in the bathroom is tricky. Seriously, people still like the feel and smell of a book. It doesn't need batteries, cables, and you never get spammed. Also, there is a big difference between a comic at 72 dpi and a printed page at 600 dpi.
An Interview with David Allen
By Ellen Bauerle, Ginger Mayerson and Laurel Sutton

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I'm just white-knuckling it with the muse. An Interview with Brooke McEldowney The biggest danger facing the U.S. right now is ignorance. Ignorance and apathy. This administration is screwing this country over for years and years to come and so many people have the attitude that it is treasonous to disagree with our government's shady-assed behavior. It's absurd. People are slowly waking up, though. An Interview with Keith Knight