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Untangling “Tanged Up in Blue”
“Tangled Up in Blue” is not Bob Dylan’s most convoluted song; “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” with its references to eleven-dollar bills and hanging around in ink wells, probably wins that title. It is not even the most confusing ballad on Blood on the Tracks; Wendy Lesser is right on in her analysis of “Lily, Rosemary, and…
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The Nass 100
1. The Daily Princetonian (so true though) 2. Your claim that there is a little independent coffee shop back home that is way better than Small World and way cheaper, though this is probably the case. 3. Princeton’s new login system which demands of innocent young minds textual and pictorial identification with the university’s egomaniacal…
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Spawning Season: Full Design
The Nass wakes up and it’s spring again. Time for making movies, holding doors, and generating power.
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Avatarotica 2: The Way of Wetter: Full Design
In the final issue of our forty-fourth volume, the Nass interrogates the illusion of control in the beauty ideal, attempts to translate a scandalous conversation, and cracks open the meanings of “fault.”
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Only Fans – Full Design
This week, the Nass ponders anxiety, cuts rocks, and gets really into chess.
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The Nass 100
1. Graph humor 2. “Does America Have Too Many Nurses or Not Enough?”: _The Slatest_ 3. Visual learners 4. Trail blazers 5. People who are culturally insensitive to my opinions 6. The disgusting cover letter and resume I sent to Secret Necessities, escort service 7. The weird white lady who works at CVS. You know…
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‘Wnna’ Do It?
Although some adults (my parents) don’t even know how to send text messages, it seems that the Finnish foreign minister, Ilkka Kanerva, has become quite the textpert.
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Portrait of the Decadent Youth
I want to tell you about this year; I want to tell you about what’s happened. I want to tell you about what went down in “Gossip Girl” and about what’s real and what’s fake, about how time passes in Princeton, about what mattered.
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Don’t Sweat the Bullshit…and it’s ALL Bullshit
How many times have you heard a friend or acquaintance congratulate herself on her ability to bullshit? … Funny thing: currently, the best-selling book at the U-Store is called On Bullshit.