Media culture-watchers have informed us that cynicism and cold-eyed sarcasm are dead -- which is b.s., as a perusal of the brilliant WTC-themed issue of theonion.com demonstrates.
Nonetheless, even when it was uncool I had a shameful weakness for azure-coloured reminiscences of the innocence of childhood, when stolen first-kisses were those "by which all the others are measured -- and found wanting."
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