I said, "Pretend you've got no money," and she just laughed and said, "Oh, you're so funny!"

Thursday, cigarette #3

All the talk of class (no, being a science major is not your "class background") calls to mind the last century's greatest meditation on class differences, now available in Archie Comics form.

Better than "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates, you ask? Even better.

All joking aside, Oasis and Blur might be more fun on Friday night and Thom Yorke might be more eloquent on the inherent rootlessness of being a space alien, but far better for a pop song to make loveless sex sound like hell, capture the sweetness and seediness of adolescent sexuality, or finally give voice to the tragedy of having a friend who keeps smoking all your cigarettes again.