The Rod's Three-Year Anniversary: Has it been three years already? Oh my. Anyway, help Bus Station John as his gaggle of alterna-queer fans celebrate the birthday of this club night, which has spawned many imitators over the last few years. The music is late 70's/early 80's retro-homo rarities; the scene is Converse shoes, angular haircuts, and cologne-free; and the time of your life is tonight. (Although we secretly hope Castro clones will show up......

We just got this new purse, and we're just so happy -- looking over at it we can see that we've managed to shove in two magazines, a catalog, a VHS tape, a library book and all our usual pursey crap. The fact that we can tote a hardback book and still look cute might herald in a new era of online reserve consumption, or at least get us to drag around more of our......