Letter from the Editors 2/25
Dear Readers,
How pleased we are to have you! Come, come. Feel our warm, papery embrace. It is cozy in here, whether you use our pages for pleasure, insulation, or as toilet paper.
The Story of Suk-ho Peel
Author’s Note: Around 90% of the text of this story is taken verbatim from Wikipedia articles on various famous Princeton alumni, after Kenneth Goldsmith’s lecture and seminar “Uncreative Writing.” If you are curious to know from which alumnus certain details might originate, simply search the text in quotes with the search terms Wikipedia and/or Princeton […]
How to Fake it in America
This review will be biased. It will be biased for two reasons. One: there are few things in the world I would rather do than Bryan Greenberg. Two: I’m from New York. These are important biases because Greenberg plays the protagonist, Ben Epstein, a jeans folder at Barney’s. And although the show’s title is _How […]
Attacks and Coordinations
A little after eight o’clock on Friday night, I received my ticket for the Spring Dance Festival and fought my way through the throng of latecomers into the last available seat, slyly offered up by the crabby woman at the front desk. The Berlind Theater was packed throughout the weekend, which was, as far as […]
Out and Devout
Andrew Sullivan, a senior editor for _The New Republic_, knew his audience. He did not come to proselytize; the crowd at McCosh 50, he well understood, needed little convincing that gay rights deserve support. Instead, he led us between left and right, alerting us to the political arguments which have shaped the gay rights movement. […]
Can You Make Friends on the Internet?
You: Hey
You: How’s it going?
You: Oh…that’s your penis.
> You disconnected.
Politics and Street Art
The following was adapted from an excerpt of a Word document that may one day, by the grace of David Simon and the Holy Ghost, become a thesis. Amen. Graffiti, also referred to as street art or guerrila art, depending on an artist’s C.V. and willingness to make money, is not a new phenomenon. Handprints […]
Three Poems
__There Lived a Red-Haired Man__
There lived a red-haired man
Who had no eyes or ears.
The Movies, Today
__WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS__
Having been cryogenically frozen at the end of _Wall Street_, Kirk “Michael” Douglas has returned to wreak havok on this new, technologically advanced century with ’80s know-how and slick suspenders. As any movie buff would know, this premise is a direct rip-off of _Jason X_, the one where Jason kills people on a space ship instead of next to a lake.
