But people love giving him press. And people love him! He’s been in movies none of which are my favorite. I’ve always hated Zoolander (no matter what, you cannot convince me.)  Although I do love the Royal Tenenbaums, who doesn’t love Wes Anderson?!

The New York Times is almost-kind-of profiling him because of this new independent movie he made called “Greenberg“. I do not know what it is about. I did see the trailer quite a few months ago on apple trailers. I remember being unimpressed by it. Who knows, maybe we’ll all be surprised?

My spring break is just as great as driving to Miami. I am sitting on my couch listening to ‘From the Beginning’ Wilco. I have five extra days to complete my Chicago Public Radio application. I am reading uncontrollable amounts for class. And it’s rainy, which means lazy schneeging. Tonight my parentals and I are going to see Alice in Wonderland (more to come on that.) All is well here. Plus, how can we top last year’s spring break? I don’t know about ya’ll but I drove from Los Angeles to Vancouver and back last year. If you have the time (and money) go out and do something crazy! If not, enjoy whatever. I’m spending time writing, reading and music dorkin’…so the usual.

This could get ugly.

Keep up. Or don’t.

Happy Spring Break.

Conan with "intern"

What will this tour consist of? The tour website promises a “night full of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence.” Interesting that music is listed before comedy, reminding us of Conan’s stellar performance on the last episode of the Tonight Show where he played “Freebird.”

Conan will not be banking any money from this tour. His reason for doing it is to keep his writers and staffers employed. “What a guy,” is all I can say.

Cartoonist Roz Chast has been a staff cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1979. She likes to list things alphabetically to help her fall asleep at night. With all the anecdotes, I’ve never heard of this one. As much as I’d like to try it out, I hope I don’t have to.

No Parking 10am-3pm Mon-Fri

However, invisible people are apparently allowed to stand whenever they want.

Portrait of 149

“Where did this come from?” I asked Rob – who lives there, spilling some Beast foam on his Adidas.

“It’s a site called rasturbation.com” I didn’t hear it right. “Like masturbation, but with an ‘R’,” he tells me.

“Ohh.”

You just upload a picture and choose how big you want it. This one is 10×10 – all you’ve got to do is staple or tape all the pages together and voila – you’ve got your portrait. And it’s cheaper than a poster, that is, if you print it on campus. Just try not to get caught rasturbating in the computer lab.

So of course when I get on to my computer I enter rasturbation.com into my browser, assuming this seemingly new-age artform is hosted by some bohemians creating a website based on some wordplay (who does that anyways?) Turns out, the aforementioned site doesn’t exist, and the correct spelling is rasterbation.com, and the tiled artform has been around for years. (Almost makes me think of the museum scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.)

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This might become pretty popular. It might even replace tapestries as the most common piece of room decor and also as the most flammable textile to be hung from a wall.

Was born in 1910 in Dobson, North Carolina

Attended N.C. State, majoring in Business Administration and writing for the school paper, the Technician

Moved to Ithaca in 1942 to take a job (The building next to Viva Taqueria is named after Park).

Began a Communications Consortium, controlling seven television stations, seven AM and seven FM radio stations, as well as a number of publications.

At one time, Forbes listed Park as one of the forty richest men in the U.S.

Park sat on the Board of Trustees at Ithaca College for a number of years and the school was named after him in 1989.

His likeness can be seen in the lobby of the school – near the coffee kiosk towards the stairs.

Park himself

But take a closer look, down at the wrists.

double-wristing

A watch on each hand. Take Forbes’ word for it – the man was wealthy. But philanthropic, too. Since 1997, The Park Foundation has left over $12 million in scholarships to help over 170 students.

Johnson

This museum has a few permanent collections of art, as well as constantly-changing contemporary collections. But the main attraction at the Johnson is the view. High up on Libe Slope, the fifth floor of the museum offers incredible views of Ithaca and the surrounding areas. The lake, downtown, the hills, and surrounding campuses are spectacular yet humbling.

Cayuga

Being Cornell, though, I thought some of the art would be elitist, high-brow, somewhat snooty and incomprehensible for someone not well-versed in the field of art history. I went to the top floor for the view, but when I scoped out some of the displays, all I saw was this:

bubble bubble

I thought you could pick one of those up at the Commons – don’t know why you’d have to go to a museum to see it.

Then, there was this naked chick:

Exhibition(ist) A

Get some clothes on, hippy.

Turns out that the famed Johnson Museum is no exception to the liberal lifestyle that is nearly normalized in Ithaca. Anyways, if anyone knows of some REAL museums in the area, let me know.