Archive for January 18th, 2010
A Late Tonight Show? A No-No for Coco
How did I react to Conan O’ Brien getting backstabbed by NBC? Well, here’s a little back-story. Conan and Andy Richter pretty much laid the foundation for my late-night insomnia when I was just hitting my teens and realized that hours exist between midnight and 7:00 a.m. on weeknights. I followed “Late Night” in the [...]
The Bore of “Eli”
APOCALYPSE: Gritty action-packed film lacks well-crafted dialogue and relatable characters.
Baby It’s Moderately Cold Outside
One night near the end of fall quarter, I was dead asleep in bed and then suddenly I was awake. The night was silent, my roommate slept on peacefully across the room, and here I was sweating and awake for no apparent reason. Then I realized that it was December but felt like a hot [...]
What Do You Do At 11:11?
The world was an excruciatingly terrifying place when I was nine. Not only did I have to deal with imagined monsters under my bed, but I also was forced to endure my superstitious aunt’s outlandish admonishments. For instance:
“If you don’t finish all your rice, you’ll get a pimple for every grain left in your bowl.”
I [...]
Single? Ready To Mingle? How To Calm Your Nerves To Finally Do It!
In the age of e-mail, IMs and Facebook, what’s a guy with a crush to do? Talking to a cute girl is never easy, but luckily the Internet has made it somewhat less difficult. So, take the wimpy way out and do it via the web!
Step 1: Make Contact
So there’s this girl, right? Yeah, she’s [...]
Grrrrrl Power: The Reason We Love and Hate Feminist Power Anthems
Hidden in the depths of our iTunes are songs we never like to admit to listening, but we believe it’s time to turn up the volume and confess: We love Girl Power anthems.
We sometimes play them secretly through our headphones or scoff along with the rest of our friends when those overplayed tunes are amplified [...]
Terrible Tween Television
On the deck of a luxurious cruise liner, a party scene is being played out: Regal ice sculptures line the tables, caviar is served and the sounds of a string quartet fill the air. The scene is part of the tale of a missing jewel and a forbidden romance between an upper-class girl and a [...]
Intimate Inquiries
Dear Sandy,
There’s this boy in my econ class. He often tutors me and he recently started inviting me to his house to study. I have developed a huge crush on him over the course of the quarter.
I print out pictures of him on Facebook, cut out his face and put it on pictures of Robert [...]
