Ari Samsky



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Arrivederci, Baby

Ari Samsky

Wanna Bum me a Cigarette — Feb 26, 2004

The last episode of Sex and the City was totally awesome, and I should know because I watched it.

Erotomania and Castration Anxiety in USG President M. Margolin

Ari Samsky

The Politics Issue — Feb 19, 2004

Although I will perhaps be labeled as crude and sensational, I should like to turn the light of psychoanalysis on Mr. M. Margolin, the president of the Undergraduate Student Government.

Irony and Tonic

Ari Samsky

REBUS VENTURI! — May 5, 2005

The Roman emperor Heliogabalus relied on a series of unusual devices to inscribe himself in the portions of popular history devoted to eccentrics, serial killers, and the sexually voracious. At times he fit into each of these categories, frequently all three. He most famously designed a hollow bronze bull in ...

Free Live What?

Ari Samsky

OBAMA WINS!!! — Nov 7, 2008

The writer Gene Wolfe possesses many gifts; he bears an almost equal number of maddening, irritating flaws. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his 1984 experimental mystery novel Free Live Free