You hear a sharp, metallic crunch. Peeling your face from the van's back window, you start spitting slivers and pebbles of teeth, and scream for a friend: 'John?! John!'

Do I miss him? It's a question I'm bound to ask again, but perhaps, yes. Bromances only go so far. Rarely do friendships endure after high school, settling in our own ways like Pangaea drifting apart'mdash;similar contours but different climate.

School administrators met for the first University Planning and Budget Group this semester and discussed CSUN's fiscal direction for the upcoming year.

'Choke' represents the love story of our times: despondent, selfish, and cynically optimistic. There's a line said by Sam Rockwell's character to the bizarrely attractive love interest, Kelly Macdonald, that sums up our voyeuristic and one-track ideals: 'I can't fuck you because I like you.'

Located on the flattest American desert 90 miles north of Reno, Nev., a temporary community gathers for Burning Man. They thrive for seven days on art and psychedelia'mdash;and the guy in a chicken suit could either be a pauper or founder of Google.

California has its share of abstract expressionists: Dennis Beall, George Miyasaki, James Kelley; all of which are remarkable, but none emanate dramatic bones such as Hans Burkhardt (1904-1994).

J.J. Abrams is that science-fiction-loving, all-knowing nerd on the weird end of the neighborhood block. The type of guy who archived a bug collection and sold us into manga; the type of guy that continually fantasizes about the tech-saturated future we're inevitably nearing.

Twenty minutes into my daily drive it starts happening again. Sweat slithers down my armpit hairs like an icicle in a turning season, enlarging the dark spots under my arms with wet lines reaching my hip.

In a country where a holy figure is public enemy number one, and earthquake survivors can't re-reproduce after losing their only child, it's no wonder Benetton saw the opportunity as another ad campaign.