August 11, 2009 – 2:34 PM
New York Times contributor Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an Op-Ed this weekend about the increasingly poor treatment of those suffering from poverty in America, and mentioned Middletown among its examples of local crackdowns on food sharing:
The viciousness of the official animus toward the indigent can be breathtaking. A few years ago, a group called Food Not [...]
August 10, 2009 – 10:13 AM
Hitler is sick of the “Downfall” parody meme and he’s not going to take it anymore, in this Funny or Die send-up of that meme:
At 1:35, a Nazi peon suggests that the trend is a “clever subversion of traditional media”; Hitler retorts that he should take his liberal arts bullshit back to Wesleyan.
[Thanks to Adam [...]
August 5, 2009 – 12:15 PM
If you are female and in Brooklyn this weekend, you can be in the Boy Crisis video for “Fountain of Youth”, to be directed by Jordan Fish ‘06:
We’re looking for female extras for a Boy Crisis video in Williamsburg, all day on SATURDAY AUGUST 8th. If you’re available this evening, there will be a rehearsal [...]
Discerning (and disappointed) Wesleyan soccer fans may have noticed that after the US’s grueling 2-3 loss to Brazil in the FIFA Confederations Cup Final, the stadium’s loudspeakers blasted MGMT’s song “Kids” as team USA picked up their Silver medals. This comes as only a small consolation after we squandered a 2-0 halftime lead against a [...]
The New York Times published an article yesterday about how colleges are reaping funds from the summer season by hosting summer camps, academic programs, and even photo shoots. In the economic downturn, new sources of income have become even more important, even as expensive summer programs might be less popular:
“The overall landscape now is [...]
A solitary reveler starts an infectious dance party to Santigold’s “Unstoppable” at last week’s Sasquatch music festival:
Major trend alert: teenagers are running all over the place, hugging each other willy-nilly! The madness.
Note the demonstration of different hug types at 1:20:
You might remember that a Connecticut middle school banned all physical contact among students a few months ago, to help combat the HUGGING EPIDEMIC before it was known as such.
All this is [...]
Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]
Everyday user-generated mundanity at My Life is Average, for anyone whose life is not totally fucked or rlly good.
Last mention of MGMT on Wesleying EVER. Weezer is still around doing things; here is Rivers Cuomo covering “Kids”, then Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” at a live show:
Kanye Vision: behold the Internet as voice-of-our-generation Kanye West does. [...]
In an apparent effort to appear politically well-rounded after speaking at Wesleyan last May, President Obama delivered the commencement address at Notre Dame University’s graduation ceremony yesterday.
It was controversial for some wingnuts because it’s a Catholic institution and Obama is pro-choice, but it turned out mostly fine except for this minor hitch:
Transcript after the jump:
For [...]
[ May 15, 2009 11:59 PM to May 16, 2009 2:00 AM. ] If you’re going home to New York this weekend, or if you’re looking for a way to get off campus before Senior Week, go check out Wesleyan’s own reggae/dub/funk/soul band Buru Style. They’ll be backing former Soulive singer Toussaint Liberator at the famous Blue Note jazz club.
Buru Style has really taken flight this year and [...]
There’s been an incredible lack of silly videos on this site recently. Here is ponies!
The Michael Bay treatment of ponies.
MGMT won a settlement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative UMP party after threatening to sue them for playing “Kids” at campaign rallies and in online videos without the band’s permission earlier this year .
Which was funny because the UMP is all about cracking down on Internet piracy, and has been pushing harsh legislation against [...]
April 22, 2009 – 12:40 PM
Yes, we already do have gay marriage. However, as with all other states allowing gay marriage except for Vermont, we have it as a result of judicial action rather than legislative action. In the eyes of many people, this makes it less “legitimate” than a decision from our elected officials who represent us more directly.
However, [...]
Film royalty/Wesleyan donor Isabella Rossellini is back with round two of “Green Porno“, her absurdly hilarious (and educational!) vanity project depicting the sexual habits of various animals. Last time it was bugs – this time it’s sea creatures.
I feel like these videos distill everything I learned about evolutionary mating strategies in my Animal Behavior class, [...]
[ April 18, 2009 to April 19, 2009. ] Come watch Nietzsch Factor men’s ultimate compete for a spot at the regional tournament! We won our last tournament undefeated, but this weekend we will be seeing some STIFFER competition. All day Saturday and Sunday, the fields behind Freeman. Bring your friends.
[Editor's note: is that some Frisbee pun I don't know about?]
Now at #13 on the Amazon.com bestseller list, the classic Jane Austen novel seems to be making a comeback. Its new title is: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!”
From the readers’ discussion guide, courtesy the NY Times article:
“Some scholars believe that the zombies were a last-minute [...]
Total tested: 217
HIV: 0 positives
Chlamydia: 0 positives
Gonorrhea: 0 positives
Syphilis: 0 positives
That means that if you were tested on April 9th at Eclectic, you do NOT have any STIs.
Congratulations Wesleyan! Stay safe, stay positive, and keep having fun.
[via Jonathan Short '09, Director of ASHA - AIDS and Sexual Health Awareness]
Excellent human beings Kennedy Odede ‘12 and Jessica Posner ‘09 received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to build a school for girls in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya in which Odede grew up, during a 10-week project this summer.
Kennedy’s awe-inspiring life story was featured in a three-part series in the Argus last semester, [...]
So recently Vermont’s House of Representatives and Senate both voted to pass a bill to legalize gay marriage. In that vote, the House results were 95-52. Governor Jim Douglas, however, vetoed the bill when it got to his office. Today, the House voted 100-49 to override the veto and pass the bill into law (the [...]
The bare essentials of a film about apathetic, over-educated twentysomethings with no goals but many complicated feelings:
[via Cinematical]
Orchard Hills Paintball (located in Lancaster, MA – about an hour and a half from Wes) is a paintball company started by Pauri Pandian ‘08, and is having a grand opening on Saturday.
If you can get a ride and are in the mood to play paintball, make the trip up!
There is both a morning and [...]
Let me start by saying that I think Love Makes a Family is an amazing organization, and feel that for the most part they have made good strategic decisions. One exception I take would be with their initial opposition to the civil unions bill in 2005, and another would be choosing April Fool’s Day [...]
Last October, the CT Supreme Court ruled that “the state has failed to provide sufficient justification for excluding same sex couples from the institution of marriage.”
Today, nearly 6 months later, a bill to codify the ruling passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 30 to 10.
Christine Stuart of CT News Junkie reports:
The [...]
The East Shore Middle School in Milford, CT has decided to instate a “no-touching” policy after a recent incident in which one student was sent to the hospital from being hit in the groin. This bizarre ruling will undoubtedly have some peculiar consequences. Do you think it will help or hinder the students’ interactions? Opinions, [...]
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