First-Person Scooter

March 5, 2023

Steep a Pot of Chinese Philosophy: This Princeton Business Owner is Selling Natural Balance

Health, harmony, and history with Paul Shu, owner of Holsome Teas and Herbs.

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First-Person Scooter: Full Design

This week, the Nass surveys a hostile world, finds meaning in the senseless, and explores new ways to heal.

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Escaping the Werewolf: Alex G, Deep Ecology, and Our Increasingly Hostile World

“There are a million wolves hiding in the environmental substrate I’ve called speargrass. The reality is that they’re not even wolves. When they get home in the evening, they take off the wolfskin and look just like us.”

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Corecore and the Logic of Montage

“This genre’s title, corecore, makes a totalizing claim on the thousands of balkanized subgenres and subaesthetics that fleet past the user: only a certain set of objects and clips can be dazecore or college dormcore, but corecore encompasses all such ‘cores,’ all these oddly particular aesthetics.”

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Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman

With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.

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Twenty Years On

“I was a swimmer in the night. The moon on my face, I dove off rocks and cliffs. I swim in my dreams and they sound like the breaths of fish past my face.”

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A Sprawling Smallness

“She wanted to relive the memories, the ephemeral emotions of happiness she felt when she was younger – unmolded. She did not account for the fact that she was a different person hoping to feel the sentiments of years ago.”

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Prufrock’s Letters

Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni   1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see … Read More

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Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.

In cheerful defense of shortcuts.

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Carrot Cyanotype

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Verbatim

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Overheard in a disturbingly public area

Lovebird 1: I’ll be your shark

Lovebird 2: I’ll be your grim reaper

Overheard in Feliciano

Zee 1: What IS a chill pill in the real world?

Sagacious RCA: Xanax

Zee 2: Do you need a prescription for that?

Overheard during an Uno game

Man in t-shirt: I feel underdressed for this Uno game

Overheard the night before dean’s date

Eager post-grind celebrant: So is it a strip club or a gay sex thing? Either way I’m down.

Overheard while driving to a hotel

Questionable passenger: I get greedy when I sleep with my grandfather.

Overheard at Terrace

Junior girl: Ugh, werewolves. Last night, I had this 28-year-old guy in my dorm room, from Bumble. Ugh, his facial hair was gross.

Overheard during Sunday morning brunch

Supportive friend: She doesn’t need a mallet, she needs a mullet!

Mullet-reluctant woman: I don’t know if I want a mullet.

Supportive friend: It’s not about what you WANT, it’s about what you NEED.

Overheard during a nourishing breakfast

Grapefruit fan: I like when things explode in my mouth

Overheard at Mochinut

Wary customer: What flavors are th- oh, do you not want to know?

Adventurous customer: Sometimes it's better not to know.

Overheard in Marx class

Preceptor: How, Karl? How the fuck are we supposed to do that?

Overheard on Washington

Friend of Jewish people: I feel like I have a Snapchat streak going with Shabbat right now

Overheard in Whitman dining hall

Infamous prox scanner: “You know, if you look at it, the math of evolution doesn't really work out”

Overheard while walking at night

Nocturnal wanderer: I always have banger ideas, but when it comes to me I'm like “beep bop boop addiction.”

Overheard during sex

Thoughtful lover: You know this is quite Hegelian