Erik Brooks: Harts Pass No. 129
Wild times in Winthrop last Saturday night as the Atomic Bombshells rocked the Barn. Through the Harts Pass "lens" America's Burlesque revival gets a little more kid friendly :)
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Rainbow Food Photography is Not Entirely Appetizing
[ By Delana in Art& Photography & Video. ] Would you eat purple lettuce? How about green bacon or multi-colored pasta? Photographer Henry Hargreaves has put some of our favorite foods into an...
View ArticleChet Haase: Fat
My jeans are much tighter than this time last year.Maybe I’ve been drinking far too much beer.And too much dessert didn’t help, it seems clear:I’m think that I’m getting fat.The problem is that I just...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Basketball: Knights Let Second-Half Lead Slip...
Skylar Tsutsui had a season-best 14 points, but Carleton College women’s basketball team could not maintain a second half lead and lost, 58-47, to visiting Gustavus Adolphus College. Akemi Arzouman...
View ArticleChet Haase: When I am King... II: The Book
It's out. It's here. It's the one you've been waiting for, even if you didn't know it.It's the second, it's the sequel, it's the one that the first was published in anticipation of, even if it didn't...
View ArticleKelly O'Brien '12: "Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent...
““Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” - Jack Kerouac
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Turtles And Titanics
At a dinner party, a woman was in conversation withGeorge Bernard Shaw:Woman: “Surely, Mr Shaw, the theory of evolutioncannot be correct. Everyone knows that the world is balanced on the back of a...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Rock Meets Bone
My heart left home…I was bad, bare, alone…I found myself thereWhere rock meets bone.I went out on the roadWith another load, hopingNever to be known….ICouldn’t forget, but I couldTry not to...
View ArticleChet Haase: Depend on the Kindleness of Strangers
The Kindle version of When I am King... II: More Reasons to Put Me in Charge is now available on Amazon (the hardcopy version was already available).In an odd twist, the Kindle version is apparently...
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Imagine Nations: 15 Peaceful John Lennon Memorials
[ By Steve in Art& Sculpture & Craft. ] Imagine a world without memorials to the late John Lennon, it isn’t hard to do. The fact there ARE commemorative tributes to the former Beatle and peace...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday,...
Note: toilet paper rolls should not be used as a substitute for a menorah. You’ll just have one crazy night, and the fire department will likely be involved. Not a Hanukkah miracle.Fuck You, Pelicans...
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: Japan’s year 2033 problem
Japan last reformed its lunisolar calendar in 1844, before adopting the Gregorian calendar in 1873, complete with an educational program and explanatory material, as documented by Matt and by Stefan...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: December 10-16, 2012.
What are you getting me for Hanukkah, Amar’e?Monday: Atlanta Hawks at Miami Heat (4:30 PM PST on League Pass)You’ve heard about the Heat. You’ve taken the Knicks into consideration. You’ve even given...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: December 21: T.G.I.F.T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I.
T.G.I.F.T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I2012-12-21 falls on a Friday, which revises the famousslogan to: “Thank God it’s Friday, the end of the world as we know it”…..fitting for any Friday…really.
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Identity politics
The author of this op-ed piece is Calestous Juma, professor of international development at Harvard Kennedy School. His examples are primarily from Kenya, but it's easy to apply his ideas to Nigeria....
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
12-8-2012Abbe Hills East. 71 minutes. 10 miles.Chilly, sunny, and nice. Felt pretty good! Out in 36:45, back in 34:30.
View Article