There’s this from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: an obituary for Dr. Frank M. Berger, 94 and creator of the mood-alterer Miltown (and whose very name sounds like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reference if you say it fast).
In the years after World War II (cue documentary music), Berger and his fellow chemists “synthesized a series [...]

Dave Wielenga, in “Staff Infection,” wrote of that strange and annoying subsect of men who don’t just dig Bruce Springsteen but diiiiiiig Bruce Springsteen. Dave has a name for them: Wendys. “Those 40-to-60-year-old guys with their denim outfits, their jutting lower lips and their certainty that Bruce alone understands them, and vice-versa. Like silly little [...]