Balls Dropped

February 22, 2024

A Yoga Ashram, Donna Tart’s The Secret History, and Discobitch’s C’est Beau la Bourgeoisie

In high school I once wore my Pitbulls for Obama t-shirt (turned muscle tank) — which depicts three pitbulls, a speech bubble attached to one of them, saying “we don’t need no stinking lipstick”…

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Balls Dropped: Full Design

In the first issue of Volume 48, the Nass is more back than ever, reading, listening to country music, and getting away from it all.

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Letter from the editor

You can read Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note if you want but only on Genius Lyrics for some reason and only while 50jitsteppa offers up a studio performance of his track “I Know” in a concurrently playing video. It’s sort … Read More

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New Year, New Me / I Was Cutting My Fingernails and Eavesdropping

An essay and a poem grappling with spirituality and the self in the wake of the new year

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Sorry About the Air Conditioners Being Off: Townes Van Zandt, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Aesthetic Signatures of Heat

A Nass writer sweats through readings of some outlaw country tunes and a splatter horror classic

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A Summer Education in Hawaii

I’m thrilled to be a witness after many uneventful years in suburbia.

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Fruit Flies

The end product is a picture with many suns that capture the real in infinitely many instances. Yet it represents nothing of reality.

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Of Friendship, Sex, and Bacon

How to conceal, expose, and generally deal with the high stakes of early February

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Terrace

Gay man: Gay twins scare the shit out of me.

Overheard on a bus traversing Sicily

Former HUM student: I want to embrace the Russian tradition of suffering.

Overheard in East Asian Library

Promiscuous Freshman Bottom: Because when it's uncut the tip has a little tang to it.

Overheard near New South

Athlete, talking to a group of childless parents: That writing class…most important moment of your life, probably.

Overheard in Tower

Fed-up frosh: If all the men here are assholes, they might as well be 6-foot assholes.

Overheard on the street

Well-meaning white girl: “I’ve never felt more, like, not around white people. Not bad, just different.”

Overheard in Roma

Frosh: “Where do you report a bully in college?”

Overheard whilst stretching

Pretentious yoga enthusiast: I feel like if you have issues they're not of the mermaid variety.

Overheard outside Ivy

WASP-y Ivy Member: The WASPs are up to something…

Overheard in Tiger Tea Room

Cloister Bro: Do you ever try to figure out if a guy is sexist before you date him?
Cloister Bro's Female Friend: If they're still talking to me after seeing "feminist" in my Twitter bio that's a good sign.

Overheard in Whitman Courtyard

Disgruntled south campus resident: Every walk in Princeton is 3 minutes too long.

Overheard in Murray Dodge

Student, talking to a potential English major: “Try the starving artist thing for a while, and if it doesn’t work out, you can always be a consultant!”

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