Pif Magazine ~ No. 22

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ISSN: 1094-2726

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This Issue

Embrace Your Inner Grease-Monkey
commentary by Joan Radell
Women aren't supposed to know cars. When Joan squats down to follow the line of a jet-black fender, or admire some beautiful bodywork, men look at her as though she's from another planet. Read more in "I Was a Female Motorhead."

Kick Up Your Heels and Drive
by Ysabel de la Rosa
Driving is just another form of dancing to some - yet to others it is an accident waiting to happen. Read more in "Flamenco Driving."

No. 22 - March 1999

As I See It

Ho-Hum, the Presidential Race has Begun.
by Daryl Lease
Taking aim at "The Unremarkable Suspects," Daryl Lease decides that if the current pool of candidates is the best this nation has to offer, he'd rather watch cartoons...

Stranger Than Fiction

How I Never Learned to Drive
by Stefene Russell
Stefene reflects on learning to drive - and decides she's much safer walking...

Book Lovers

"Truck : On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup, and Other Post-Technological Adventures"
by John Jerome
reviewed by Rachel Barenblat
As the book jacket proclaims, "it's more than a mechanic's memoir: it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe." Jerome is curmudgeonly in the best New England intellectual tradition, but he's also astonishingly down to earth...

"66 Galaxie"
poetry by m loncar
reviewed by Miriam O'Neal
I'm not going to say a thing about "all that post modern tv scrap culture generation x bullshit" ... I will say that m loncar has found a way to project the surface of late twentieth century American pop culture in a kind of holograph that spins us forward at a rapid rate on verbal wheels...

"Going Native"
novel by Stephen Wright
reviewed by James Brundage
Going Native possesses both the crude, offensive, and blaring nature to hold the interest of a Stephen King fan as well as sufficient ironic wit, intelligence, and bizarre brilliance to keep those of us who finished Don DeLillo's Underworld interested....

Poetry

"'80 Pontiac"
by Jake de Peuter

"Point of Reference / Newberry County"
by KayDay

"Tragedy Drives A Sedan"
by Sharon Preiss

"Plastic Pearls"
by Linda McCauley Freeman

"How I Am Going To Die"
by Patty Mooney

"Women in Fast Cars"
by Danna Botwick

"Resistance"
by C.E. Chaffin

Macro-Fiction

"Garlands"
by Armand Gloriosa

Sound Bites

Music Reviews
by Jill Hill and Carey Potash

Find out why all the girls go crazy for xylophone players and three-eyed lizards, with Tuatara's "Trading With The Enemy"; the "Hourly, Daily" sounds of You Am I hold one reviewer captive; Everlast's too-hip-for-you attitude might be why "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues;" while Seal wraps the full emotional depth of his voice around "Human Being."

Remote Control

Film Reviews
reviews by Nick Burton
Nick takes a dark and disturbing ride through the sex and wreckage that is David Cronenberg's "Crash, takes to the open road with Richard T. Sarafian's full-speed cult-classic, "Vanishing Point," finds Steven Spielberg's road-rage masterpiece a "Duel"ling good ride, and cruises along as Wim Wenders's "Kings of the Road" barrel down that pot-holed highway of life.

Zine-o-Rama

The Not-So-Wide World of Car 'Zines
by Gayle O'Brien
There seems to be a disturbing number of the zines who can't talk about cars without plopping in photos of a few good "pieces of ass." Fortunately, our reviewer stepped over the dropped axels and monkey-grease to find a few honest-to-goodness sites worth checking out.

Last Word

Our Readers Spout Off
Ever wonder what some of our readers think of us? Now's your chance to find out.

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