04 July 2008

Freak-a-boo

Faceless spectators keep popping up at high-profile events.


12 May 2008

Motion movement motivation

Sometimes you find motivation in the strangest of places and forms. As we all plunge into finals week full-force, might I again pass along this Nike commercial as one of the sweetest spots on the power of hard work and all that. It is just a cinematographic gem. Plus, it seems, if you do the dirty work, you get the rewards.

Get ready, poli sci test: Glory is mine!

24 April 2008

Bloglove

TICKLE CITY is taking the blogging world by storm!

Oh what's up, Midweek Award Watch.

17 April 2008

MTV called...

...they want their juicy reality show back!
LT was nearly featured on this latest hit, The Paper, until they realized that the real scoop was on the yearbook staff and they just left quickly. Out the backdoor.

16 April 2008

A girl's worst nightmare

So yeah, trying to be all classy or whatever I finally break out the spring dress; hell, it's finally supposed to reach into the 70's today (70? What!?!?) and basically the entire campus is acting like the sun burst through the heavens and drops of sunshine and warmth are just falling from the sky. If only the wind would die down?

But anyways, I'm feelin' good, and then I see it. Is...is that girl wearing the same dress as me? No way.

Yep. It happened. So, who wore it better?

I guess this kind of thing would never happen if I were as killer as The Sartorialist lasses and laddies!

15 April 2008

14 April 2008

01 April 2008

Vanilla ice

Guilty admissions:

#87 Outdoor Performance Clothes
#80 The Idea of Soccer (have you seen Cristiano Ronaldo?)
#78 Multilingual Children
#70 Study Abroad
#30 Wrigley Field
#22 Having Two Last Names

The college girl wardrobe staple

I heard from a certain Bloch-Wehba girl via another Bloch-Wehba girl that all EDIT: SOROS-TITUTES own a pair of these shorts. Soro- from the Latin soror meaning sister, -stitutes from the Greek meaning streetwalker. Then both LBW and I realized we are proud owners, and quickly shunned the stereotype. HBW, it seems the phenomenon extends beyond Greek Row.

30 March 2008

Spring breakers


http://www.pisceandelusions.org/

7:46 pm, EST: The sun gently dips below the horizon, the restaurant crowd bursts into applause.

Sound effects for the sound effects

The Dirty G is doing it so right with music line-ups this week:

Electronic for electronicheads on Friday evening with Dan Deacon; intelligent "beats, rhymes, and life" and odes to the Northwest ([MelzerLi]! [NiehHami]!) with the Blue Scholars on Saturday, a little pre-Disco warm-up.

"Sick!"

I've also heard good things about Bon Iver, who's scheduled for Wednesday evening.

Currently running a high M.I.A. fever, and of course can never get enough Cat Power.

"Growl."

23 March 2008

Six-word memoirs

I heard a story about this on NPR a while ago, and since then I've spent a lot of time wondering how I would sum up my life in six words. One of my favorites is by Stephen Colbert: "Well, I thought it was funny."

I'm really into the discussion of what constitutes "memoir"; it always brings me back to junior year English and reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the discussion on truth the novel provoked. Can exaggerated, subjective, even fictionalized "truth" be "truer" than a factual recounting of events? Blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction, where does memoir fall, as a genre? Vladimir Nabokov's works also brings this question to light, especially in his autobiography Speak, Memory in which he plays with memory, time, color and truth as malleable, tactile entities, all collaged together.

My turn?

Grow wings. Buzz around. ______ ______

That's about how far I am in life right now.

Before I fill in the blanks?

A modest mission

Sometimes I come across things I think are remarkable, and want to pass them along to others. Ideas, people, stories, sites, blogs, etc. that fill conversations, thoughts, and daydreams. Here's a pool of those things, be what they may--serious, frivolous, pointed, pointless.

Sound and resound.