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158 Popular Culture Review Karith A. Meyers is currently a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge. Her master's thesis focuses on gender relations in the Goth subculture and research interests include gangs, family law, and terrorism. Arthur Saniotis is a lecturer and visiting research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include ritual, performance, the anthropology of religion, peace and conflict studies, and medical anthropology. Mel Seesholtz is tenured in the English Department at Penn State Abington College, and also teaches in the American Studies and Science, Technology, and Society programs. He has authored articles on American counterculture and TV talk shows and is currently finishing a book on same-sex marriage. H. Peter Steeves is an associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University, where he specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology. His books include Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry (1998), Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (1999), and The Things Themselves: Essays in Applied Phenomenology (2005). Kevin Stueve was a German major at Southeast Missouri State University. He graduated in 2002 after studying one year at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He now teaches English in Germany. Dina Titus has been a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 1977. She authored Bombs in the Backyard and numerous articles on atomic history and culture. She has been the Nevada State Senate Minority Leader since 1992, and enjoys a good vodka martini with her husband, historian Thomas C. Wright, who helped research this article.