Salamandastron

February 17, 2011

Redwall Falls

Anyone who was recently a nine-year-old boy shed at least a mouse-sized tear last week, when Brian Jacques passed away at age 71. He was the author of the Redwall series, which was, in the pre-Potter era, the best set of chunky addictive novels a kid could get a hold of.

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The Yoga Elite

Yoga Above feels like a perfect reflection of Princeton’s unique character: the blending of college town taste with the style and exclusivity of affluence. The result is a donation yoga studio with deluxe décor and an amazing location that serves a clientele that is stunningly homogeneous.

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Limbo Kings

In classic Radiohead fashion, the quirky quartet have kept quite mum in the face of an absolute tsunami of questions about The King and his Limbs. To sort out the shit from shinola, I’m gonna get right into it and do my honest best to clear up some of the main questions surrounding the release.

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The Cape

Recently I went to a reading by the Russian-American writer Gary Shteyngart at Labyrinth. He was reading from his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, a widely praised satirical novel about the very near future. Shteyngart is a young … Read More

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Chicago on TV

The Chicago of the last twenty years has tended to stay out of the limelight, unless it is cast as an oasis for bros through the filter of Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma), or functions as the setting for Gotham in The Dark Knight. This is where The Chicago Code steps in, and with the city’s future at the ballot next week, it is rather timely.

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Prose Poem

Editor’s Note: What follows is composed from features published in The New Yorker between September and December 2010. No alterations beyond rearrangement were made to the texts, excepting those that ensured gender, tense and number agreement.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Murray Dodge:

Cookie Enthusiast: I think I would kill everyone here if it meant I would receive the freshest cookies.

Overheard in Firestone:

Freshman girl: Oh! A senior! I bet he’s hard at work on his essay right now!

Overheard in the U-Store:

Girl: I need, like, all of these treats for later.
Boy: You disgust me.

Overheard on Ivy email list:

Sophomore: Second, I would like to point out that someone actually poured a cup of urine on me.

Overheard in the Wa:

Bro: I can get all this candy?
Cashier: Yes.
Bro: For just this money?
Cashier: Yes.
Bro: Incredible.

Overheard on McCosh Walk:

Mother of prospective student: This would be a good place to meet a husband.
Girl: I know, it’s high on my list.

Overheard at Late Meal:

Argyle sweater: So you’re into quaaludes?

Overheard in Terrace:

Terran #1: Can I borrow your phone?
Terran #2: Naw dog my pants are too tight.

Overheard outside Frist:

Chinese tourist, in Chinese: Where are the tigers? Where is Einstein’s office? Where is the math department?

Overheard in HIS precept:

Student: I wanted to take this course because I saw that it covered [King] Louis Philippe and I want to better understand my familial background.