I eated the purple one: Archive

“Everyone in Bobb gets swine…”

– freshmen overheard in McTrib

Oct 29th

“When you run out of toilet paper, clean dishes, garbage bags and the like,...”

– a fun piece of writing from the Weekly, who, in the middle of the quarter, is inexplicably fixated on the trials and travails of living off-campus.

Oct 29th

Legend tripping

Legend tripping, also known as “ostension,” is a name recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent practice (containing elements of a rite of passage) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting.

Oct 25th

Urban Exploration

Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities. Urban exploration is also commonly referred to as infiltration, although some people consider infiltration to be more closely associated with the exploration of active or inhabited sites. It may also be referred to as “draining”...

Oct 25th

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Evil Clown Anton Chekhov

Oct 23rd

“You know I’m down with it… I love that show. I wish I could be on...”

– Snoop Dogg on why he referenced True Blood in “Gangsta Luv”

Oct 22nd

People who say that without frats there would be no social scene whatsoever at Northwestern are like the people who say that without government regulation the economy would collapse and cease to function.

Oct 21st

On Dali The Brand

claytoncubitt: “About 30 years ago Dali was still forced to go out and more or less hustle his pictures to pay his hotel bills. One evening, drinking in the St. Regis bar in New York, he ran into a machinery manufacturer from Cleveland, A. Reynolds Morse. Their minds met and Mr. Morse bought a Dali on the spot for a piddling sum, a thousand dollars or so. He also said, as Dali tells it, “Any...

Oct 20th

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Dow 10,000: So Fucking What? →

claytoncubitt: (“No one mentions here that this is a carrot-and-stick story — the stick being that ordinary people have been robbed of the interest they should be getting in CDs and ordinary bank savings accounts by the various bailout programs and lending guarantees, which have brought the cost of capital down to nothing for the big banks, and punished those people who have been doing the right...

Oct 19th

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The London Beer Flood of 1814 →

Oct 19th

Pshaw report

Out: me disliking The Office without a rationale 5 minutes ago: me disliking 30 Rock without a rationale In: me disliking Glee without a rationale

Oct 19th

Oct 18th

M: Be aggressive. If he doesn't go, you go. Out here, it's kill or be killed.

J: Dude, chill out. We're not in Colombia.

Oct 16th

Skank Boot Evokes Rage →

claytoncubitt: “We needed the $3k barrier to entry. NEEDED. But thanks to bootleggers and overly ambitious ladies for whom “holiday clothing” was invented, those lovely dames who think lace “goes with” sequins, confident daughters who received exactly the right amount of love from their parents and “love their job,” “look good in hats” and wear hosiery in red and green, thanks to them and their...

Oct 16th

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Oct 16th

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Oct 15th

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“So which one of them gets the M, which one gets the V, and which one gets the P?...”

– LL, on the breakdown of glory for a theoretical shared team MVP award between the Mariners’ Ichiro, Felix Hernandez and Franklin Gutierrez. There’s a lot of repressed sexuality towards a certain center fielder in the Mariners blogosphere.

Oct 15th

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

– Hunter Thompson, whose Hells Angels is the best for-class reading I’ve ever done.

Oct 13th