In Memoriam: Micawber

February 15, 2007

Top 23 Ways to Kill Your Lover

We at The Nass are in the business of maintaining our cherished readership’s happiness in all walks of life, and with Valentine’s Day a recent but no less traumatic event of the past, we understand how draining (both emotionally and … Read More

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Schooling from the Jewish Jordan

Tamir Goodman sits at an empty table, waiting for the guests to arrive. Slouched in his chair, Goodman seems like any other Orthodox Jew who would visit Rabbi Eitan and Gitty Webb’s home (the Chabad house on Nassau Street), save … Read More

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My Favorite Things

I like the scent of Princeton, New Jersey and sunset on the golf course behind Forbes. I like the bustle on Nassau Street and the uterine warmth of the Terrace TV room. I like the Dinky’s whistle and the Sunday … Read More

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In Mammoriam

Between Fort Lauderdale and Miami lies the mid-size city of Hollywood, Florida, population 138,412. It’s an unassuming beach-front place in the regional mode. Encompassed are ten or so diners, several miles of coastline, several miles more of T-shirt and puka-shell … Read More

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Micawber’s Reaches THE END

Just walk in Micawber Books, now as it phases out its inventory in preparation to close its doors in March, and you will undoubtedly bear witness to a sad scene, not quite of mourning but of definite melancholy, downtrodden emotion. Yes, of course, the friendly staff is still smiling; Bobbie Fishman, a long-time employee, interestedly asks what I need help finding, but there is a somber air looming over the store: the shelves in the used-book section have been disassembled and piled in orderly disarray, the stacks in the new-books section increasingly reveal empty wood as customers continue to remove the books and buy them at heavily discounted prices.

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Scandalous Studying Abroad

Yeah, I was abroad in London last semester, though I traveled quite a bit, left town most weekends—got around. Amazing. Best semester of my life. And I figured I’d tell a bunch of my stories at once so I don’t … Read More

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The Vagina Dialogues

Before I launch into abstract, quasi-provable thoughts as to why the Vagina Monologues rocks my socks, I’ll put forth two concrete arguments for why this show, opening February 15th, is unique, funny,
and well worth seeing.

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Weekend at Brynie’s

En detail I rather love and admire the female species; it is only en masse that it begins to confuse, frighten, and bewilder me. My opinion on the subject was, however, somewhat flexible until this weekend when, in the course of forty-eight hours, I both visited an all-women’s college and watched a play, “Uncommon Women,” about life at a women’s college.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Dillon Gym

Asian guy: I mean, I know that I AM obsessive compulsive, but... you know, not ASIAN obsessive compulsive.

Overheard in ENG 382

Girl: I don’t like poetry, so that’s why I am here. I’m an English major, but we used to make such fun of mother for being poetical. But I still don’t like poetry. Right?

Overheard in ENG 382

Professor: I want a high suicide rate among my students.

Overheard in Ivy Garden

Frat guy 1: Man, that sucks that initiations are tonight. We have nothing to do.
Frat guy 2: No, it’s okay. We’ll hit the weak clubs tonight, but it’s ok...because we’ll dominate.

Overheard at the WPRB Trustee’s Meeting

WPRB trustee: I listened to Peter Gabriel in high school, and it changed my life.

Overheard at the U-Store

Girl 1: Good luck!
Girl 2: Thanks!
U-Store Employee: It's nice to see friends supporting friends. [pause] That's not how we do it in the hood.

Overheard in GER 521B

Professor Corngold: Hazlitt said that no young man thinks he will ever die... well, we’ll see.

Overheard on TV

Mirage Master: There was only one reason you were expelled: you showed no respect for Pokemon.