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radio meets video

Sarah — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:31:04 +0000

Check out this lovely new thing from the nytimes.

having trouble sleeping?

Sarah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:20:04 +0000

Try this.

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.

america’s family turns 20

Sarah — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:34:38 +0000

Tonight on Fox the Simpsons will air their 450th episode, “The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!” I actually just set my DV-R to it. First there is an episode that makes no big deal about it, then an hour long “documentary” -if you will- by the one and only Morgan Spurlock. You know him because he chose to eat McDonalds for an entire month proving to the world that we are shit heads in the way that we eat (please, eat better.) He says that “the world may end in 2012, but this show won’t,” Spurlock seems like just the character to make this kind of film.

Officially its the longest running show in prime-time history. It first appeared on the Tracy Ullman show in 1987, pre-my-existence, as a series of shorts. The Simpsons has won 25 Emmy Awards, we all saw The Simpsons Movie in 2007 and don’t forget that the Oxford English Dictionary included D’oh! as a word. The show has, kind of, changed the world and changed television and the way we watch (write) it. Something like this only comes along every twenty years or so.

Point being is, check it out! I love cultural phenomenons- they are my favorite thing, literally. And when something is as easy to be a part of as a television show, you can’t help but watch.

Counter Tops

Riley — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:07:08 +0000

It was about a year ago that I was leaving the sixteen-degree wind and snow of New England for Los Angeles. There was a beautiful pool at the end of my building, a convenience store stocked with beer a stumble away, and the first week welcomed us with a heat wave of eighty- and ninety-degree afternoons. These were obvious perks of the ICLA program. The apartments were nicer than any students deserve, and there was just something about those counters.

They were about waist-high (for someone who stands six foot two), with white tiles and a large counter space below it. Remember the pull-out cutting board? We didn’t find ours until April! Social gatherings centered around these counters. Bottles of rum, pens, cell phones, keys and old copies of the Ithacan’t were common.

Looking through old cell phone pictures from the past year, I’ve been reminded of the fun we had around the counters.

similar colors about the counter

truly, a work of art

These creations atop the counter are the result of tinkering, malt liquor, and wonder, really.

Three cheers, this new year, to an unsung hero of Los Angeles – the Oakwood Apartment countertops!

Artsy

Riley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:00 +0000

Fall Break has come and gone. But it was a great time for us to stray away from campus and create or find our own art. Let’s see what’s been done in the Thursday and Friday we students have stretched into a five-day bender…

Medium: Chalk on Iron

I found this angry chalk monster on the metal bridge on E. Clinton Street. If you’re leaving the police station after paying an exorbitant ticket for having a party at your apartment, or coming home from the Commons, keep your eyes open.

Medium: Spray Paint on Wood

Don’t know what this means or why it was created. “Chee Dung” it says, with the former word’s letters taking the shape of a pile of the latter word. Looks homemade, though. Rock on!

Medium: Paint on Cement

Junior TV-R major Anthony Palma sent me this “fresh” graffiti straight from East Brunswick, New Jersey. If you can’t read it, I’ll help you decode; NF&ES^>TZ@,{ *.

Medium: Caution Tape on Wood and Air

The least conventional art I came across was Thursday night, when I enter a Grandview basement to find Nate Scull meandering a spider web of caution tape. Cheers to you Scull.

Fall Break is a mere two days off from classes, not even enough time to warrant my five-hour drive back home. Thanksgiving break is just over four weeks away, and oh, the art we’ll come across with nine days away from campus.

Gazing

Riley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Some websites are just awesome, like this one, and this one. And, luckily, it’s the weekend. So when you get back to your apartment tonight (insert: drunk, high, etc.) check these out.

If not, the visualizer is always a safe option.

Cheers!

one of our very own

Sarah — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:50:41 +0000

pg 24 of this week's new yoker

If it’s not clear enough for you, one of our own contributors won himself every season of Curb Your Enthusiasm on DVD. Mr. Michael Sokol is in the running for world’s biggest Larry David Fan.

Congratulations!

now THIS i cannot handle

Sarah — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:28:40 +0000

I am not trying to take Fed’s idea of making a remote out of a gun. In fact I did not even think of this idea- a tremendous human being sent this one to me.

Going along with the new Harry Potter theme park that is being developed in Orlando, FL– we now have this.

the wand

It is a wand that functions as a remote control for your television. There are no buttons on this guy, you just flick your wrist in the common motions of up, down, back and forth, sideways, over, sideways, under, clockwise, counter and down. (Whatever.) I am sure once kinks get worked out, it will be mass produced? Maybe we have a future of funny remotes to look forward to. Fed’s gun is a prime/hilarious choice, but like this one- I prefer the less violent. Check it out.

what do YOU think?…..

Sarah — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:09:15 +0000

Yo La Tengo- their new record, Popular Songs, is incredible. You can audio sample it here.

Al Fraken free hands the map of the US.

Sarah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:13:30 +0000

in his genius SNL days

Its super crazy!