The Question That I Get Asked the Most...

Well, it happens a lot. Enough that I would remark upon it.

“Erik,” People ask, “What's in right now? What’s out? How can I tell the difference?”

Well, I answer, that’s a complicated question and to answer it, we're going to have to go all the way back to the Treaty of Kent. Fashions can come and go. People and ideas transition in and out of favor. What causes this? Do the Illuminati really dictate our passions and moods in chambers secured far below the Supreme Court, the Hague, the Vatican and AOL Time Warner Headquarters? (That’s right, in the chamber, AOL has not been dropped from the name.)

In a word? Yes. Here is the latest list.

Read it. Breathe it. Live it. Or that chip they’ve implanted in the back of your neck might just start that incessant buzzing again. And I know we don't want that, do we?

In	Out
Basketball	Hockey
"Bubble" Butt	"Washboard" Abs
Quakers	Buddhists
Baretta AL-391	Smith & Wesson 317 Kit Gun
Vulnerability	Stoicism
Panini	Pastrami
Kinsey	Masters and Johnson
Scotch	Cigarettes
Tharsis Ridge	Key Largo
Paxil	Ambien
Camus	Sartre
Twin Peaks Reruns	Desperate Housewives
Venn Diagrams	Matrix Grids
Marketing for the NFL	Analysis for the FBI
Malaysia	Burma
Meeting for Happy Hour	Cell Phones
Planet Dan	Drudge Report
Barack Obama	John Edwards
Ryan Adams	Toby Keith
Alexander Hamilton	Noam Chomsky
Aubergine	Bisque
Bisexuals	Metrosexuals
Succotash	Chili
Christian Bale	Renee Zellweger