Goodnight Sweet Annex

March 2, 2006

A Fictitious Love

I have always had a penchant for falling in love with fictional men. Usually they were from books, sometimes from movies and, occasionally, they captured my affections in cartoon form (much could be said for the Beast from Beauty and … Read More

by Cailey Hall on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

Oh the Places You’ll Go!

Go to www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy. Click anywhere to start, and you will soon find yourself immersed in the idyllic, monotone world of Fly Guy, a middle-aged balding man whose destiny you hold at your fingertips. The opening shot of Fly Guy’s universe … Read More

by Freddie Lafemina on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

The Death of the Annex and its Ascension

Out of all the streets in the world stretching from Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg to Lombard Street in San Francisco, I have spent the most time traversing Witherspoon and Nassau here in my hometown of Princeton, watching the dynamic of businesses, the ebb and flow of success and decline.

by Max Kenneth on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

The Worst Movies of 2005

Everyone – myself included – has written pieces about the Oscars. I will certainly be watching, and I will certainly be rooting for the Disgruntled Shepherd movie this Sunday night. But this Saturday, there is another important awards show in … Read More

by Justin P.B. Gerald on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood

Two nights before Fences opens, I saw director Roger Q. Mason ‘08 in rehearsal at Theater Intime. He stood onstage, reading and gesturing for a missing actor over the top of his script. The wooden set was unpainted, and the … Read More

by Sarah Outhwaite on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

Three Takes on a Warehouse

A-Fiber Mannequins wasn’t very well marked. I guess it didn’t need to be; people don’t often go walking down the street looking for a mannequin warehouse. Especially not in that part of Brooklyn, which seemed to support a convenience store, a sub shop, two barbers and not much else.

by Carey Jones on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

The Vagina Homicides

“Killing the Angel in the House,” wrote Virginia Woolf, “is part of the occupation of a woman writer.” This particular epithet had come to encapsulate the Victorian stereotype of sexual frigidity, otherworldly purity, and picture-perfect domesticity which was the ego-ideal for a century of unhappy women. Joyce Carol Oates has taken Woolf’s literary dictum to the next level: her Angels are not themselves killed; they themselves kill.

by Hal Parker on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

Verbatim

Overheard on AIM

White Guy #1 (in reference to Guy #2's application for membership at Guy #1's yacht club): "I should try and blackball you, just for fun... like telling the membership committee you actually don't know how to sail or something like that."
White Guy #2: "Or tell them I'm black."