Touch and go

So you'd like a taste of what's inside? Well, go ahead, no one's looking. Stick your finger in Shorty's rice pudding - still warm from the pot - at Mom's Diner. (Shorty's the cook.) There's always a word of friendly advice and a positive outlook here, and even the criminals appreciate the good service.

If you fall in love when you're traveling, pay attention to whom you trust, and where you go. You have to be careful of Death in Belize, but the beaches there are very, very pretty, and the people, good-looking and kind.

Workers, unite! See the beauty of utopia in The Triumph of the Prague Workers' Councils - Tatiana Malevich's masterwork in collage. The artwork's whereabouts remains shrouded in mystery, but Elaine and Jessica, revolutionaries and amateur detectives, are sure to uncover it (somewhere in Paris) if they don't kill each other first.

A Darvon, two Xanax, two Valiums, and some Chardonnay. Shula's got to look that combo up in the drug hotline handbook to know how it'll mess you up. Speaking of which, after all those Close Calls, why aren't you dead yet? Don't you hate it when your younger brother has a girlfriend, and your older brother too, and everyone asks you why you don't have one, but really they know? It's hard, and the Mixed Signals your brother's college roommate keeps sending don't help. Do they?