To be an echo

2009-06-08T12:19:00.000-07:00

My blog fell in the forest and no one was around to hear it.

Freak-a-boo

2008-07-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

Faceless spectators keep popping up at high-profile events.

Motion movement motivation

2008-05-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

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!

The man, the myth, the legend

2008-05-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

Stephen Briscoe Saved My Life: Grinnell College edition

Bloglove

2008-04-24T10:53:00.003-07:00

TICKLE CITY is taking the blogging world by storm!

Oh what's up, Midweek Award Watch.

MTV called...

2008-04-17T09:21:00.000-07:00

...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.

A girl's worst nightmare

2008-04-16T08:35:00.000-07:00

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!

Regarding "Stuff White People Like"

2008-04-15T19:12:00.000-07:00

Some reasoning behind why people love this site.

Code Blue

2008-04-14T10:36:00.000-07:00

Is the semi-colon dead?

Vanilla ice

2008-04-01T20:24:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-01T19:55:00.000-07:00

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.

Spring breakers

2008-03-30T04:42:00.001-07:00

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

2008-03-30T04:28:00.000-07:00

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."

Six-word memoirs

2008-03-23T17:40:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-23T17:37:00.000-07:00

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.