Sorry for the delay, but after corresponding with an old friend I’d met up with over Thanksgiving break, I’ve been reminded of the website I’ve been looking for… check it out for cats in the place of beers and Solo cups…
meow
On 11.29.09, In Findings, By Riley
On 11.28.09, In Events, By Riley
Found some new websites, you avid and devoted thacant readers. Check ‘em out!
The first is Bros Like This Site, dot com – great writing and great hating on the lamest demographic around college campuses. Posts include hating hipsters, making girls cry, and banging places that are not a bed, because “you’re a fucking bro – nothing gets in the way of your late night pounding session. Time to improvise.”
The Big Picture - this site features some of the greatest photojournalism on the web, from one of the greatest states in the U.S.
Big Pikch
Finally, Craigslist Couples is a truly hilarious site. Kinda reminds me of hotornot.com, but more of a pop culture phenomenon – go here to check out “odd, mismatched and downright horrifying couples.”
odd, definitely odd
For all you internet aficianados, I have a quest for you – while socializing at the bar the other night, a friend of mine told me of a lolcats spinoff – essentially, in a picture taken at a party, solo cups, beer cans and other receptacles are replaced with photoshopped images of – you guessed it – cats. The URL is something along the lines of brewcats.com… if you find it, please comment, it sounds hilarious.
On 11.27.09, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
It’s been a beautiful November; no snow, fine weather, and plenty of facial hair. Just before Thanksgiving break, I ran into a slew of friends sitting outside, well, outside Friends*. Beautiful day, and everyone was wearing jeans. A dozen of us all in denim. We noticed this, we looked around, nearly everyone else was wearing jeans, too. It was a jeans day. We sat there for about ten minutes shooting the shit, and watched hordes of students walking around. There was an occasional khaki and sweatpants, but for the most part – jeans. They prevail, the ultimate pant.
Which got me to thinking… Some things just win. If there’s a category for it, there’s a winner for it. For pants, jeans. For drinks, beer. Burgers, Whoppers. There are things that go without saying, and jeans are one of them. If you’re putting pants on, you’re putting jeans on – they’re essentially interchangeable.
all jeaned up
And this beautiful November day last week brought me to that realization. Sunny, clear, crisp and cool; perfect jeans weather.
* Just a thing about Friends – I know a lot of the buildings around campus are named after benefactors. Park named after Roy H. Park, Williams after Williams and Hill after some Coach Hill. But was there a “John Friends” or is it supposed to be the “everyman” type of building?
Perhaps this is a story for another post.
On 11.27.09, In Findings, Food & Drink, By Sarah
And as always I don’t feel the need to explain myself for posting op-ed pieces. This one struck me. I have written about this myself (ironically for academic reasons) and come to realize retrospectively (even though I am only 21) that my emotional education means more to me than my academic one ever will. I mean, I know that I don’t take academia too seriously – like I should- but I still know that its important. And we are all going to put the pedal to the metal and make it through this last semester of college. But our emotional education, as David Brooks tells us, continues with us forever. And with our children (some day.) Have you ever thought about this? Its quite fascinating.
On 11.26.09, In Reviews, By Riley
Every week I grab the Ithaca Times, and with each page I turn I am disappointed. You’d think I’d stop grabbing it and just read something more intellectual – something more ‘Cake’ or ‘Ants in the Kool-Aid’ – but no, I grab the Times. With exceptional artwork gracing the cover each week, the random question asked to pedestrians on the commons (“How has Michael Jackson’s death influenced your life?”), and the monopolization of the domain ithaca.com – how could I not grab such an astute publication…
Well that’s all the Ithaca Times really is – the rest is updates about how the Farmer’s Market is over, but events still go on there during the winter. Or that there are so many gorges, ethnic restaurants, and people on welfare around town. We know all this. The paper bores me.
But I get home for Thanksgiving and I pick up the Springfield Union News. Not the noblest of papers, but there are always some interesting stories – human interest stories…
Like Miley Cyrus’ bus driver, you hear about this guy? Somewhere in Virginia, his bus overturned and while he was pinned in some wreckage he had a heart attack and died. Come on Ithaca Times, this isn’t local news… you can report on this too!
Or this guy in the UK (England) – while camping with his wife, he strangled her. What’s incredible is that he was found innocent for her death because he attacked her during a nightmare. “Sophisticated tests” conducted by sleep experts rule that the man is insane and suffers from automatism – a sleep disorder “where his mind has no control over his body.”
Sometimes I do things where my mind has no control over my body. Although, it often involves beer. That’s neither here nor there…
But anyways – back to hating on the Ithaca Times… where is your story on this crazy British guy? After the strangulation, he called 999 (apparently that’s the British 911 – let’s hope I’m never entailed in an emergency in the UK), and he told police that his wife was dead and that she wasn’t responding – he didn’t even know what he had done. This is good news.
On 11.26.09, In Findings, Food & Drink, By Sarah
Just a little Thanksgiving fun. It’s a contest to see how many different kinds of foods and random substances can be made into the shape of a turkey. Check out the slide show at the bottom of the page.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving, turkey, family and delicious day!
On 11.24.09, In Events, By Riley
The third Wednesday of November marks the biggest drinking night of the year, largely due to the mass of college students and graduates returning home to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families.
In my pre-legal-drinking-age heyday, this night was marked by 40s snuck into my parents living room, and a sunglasses/bread and water hangover on Turkey Day.
But now, I’ll go to the bars – something I’ve done regularly in Ithaca, but I’m a newbie to in Springfield. And based on my recent viewing of the local news, I might remain a newbie to the Springfield bar scene.
SpringField
Springfield has been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the U.S. So bad that a Facebook group, “Enough Violence in Springfield,” has been created. I’m not black, excessively strong, or well-versed in acting ‘urban.’ I don’t feel comfortable dealing with hippies and druggies hanging around the Ithaca Commons, or Stardust asking me for a cigarette outside Moonshadows. I don’t think I’m ready for gang members or low-life urbanites scheming on college kids home for the holiday.
Looks like I’ll stay in the suburbs, maybe some 40s…
On 11.22.09, In Findings, Food & Drink, By Sarah
“…nearly 53 billion land animals are slaughtered every year for human consumption.”
This is not me trying to make anyone feel guilty for enjoying their Thanksgiving. And this is not me trying to encourage you to do something that you don’t want to do. This is me bringing up a subject that I find interesting and is becoming news more and more each day. Also, I love the op-ed page.
On 11.22.09, In Findings, By Sarah
I am sure that you’ve heard Oprah has decided to end her daily afternoon talk show. The last show will be September 9, 2011. So don’t become to upset too soon. You still have almost two full years to sponge it all it. Oprah has been on television for 25 years and has made billions of dollars. Now she is buying a cable channel and starting a network, OWN the Oprah Winfrey Network. Media Decoder, the wonderful New York Times television blog has been all over this story like stink on a monkey. There is this, and of course…
“I love it enough to know when its time to say goodbye.”
The target audience, whatever it may be, of this blog might not appreciate an Oprah story, but its a pretty big deal. Even Gail Collins has something to say. She is the purpose for this here post. You won’t be disappointed.
On 11.19.09, In Rants, Uncategorized, By Jordan
Did any of you see that table in Park yesterday promoting ICTV’s new show, Almost College?
I caught these people tabling and they were also hanging up posters showcasing of all the show’s characters, an intriguing little marketing trick. I walked over and they were giving out condoms and pong balls with the show’s logo on it and drawing my attention to their upcoming premiere, tonight at 9 on ICTV, also streaming live at ictv.org
I know that a lot of us don’t care much for ICTV. We aren’t really aware of them or the content they produce. These condoms and pong balls, shameless self promotion, but what does it mean? What is this show about? Either way it pulls you in, so do those catchy posters.
Tonight at 9 on ICTV (Channel 16), or streaming live at ictv.org
All I’m saying is it caught my attention. I want to see what happens, so have others I’ve talked too. I think tonight I will be tuning in
I think you should join me.