Russian Issue

November 11, 2004

Young Moscow

It is typical summer weather in Moscow.

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PUP’s Into The Woods

Something about last week—Tuesday night, Wednesday noon—made me want to see the Princeton University Players’ production of Into the Woods.

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Faking “The Real Thing”

Once a long time ago, on a dampish isle some miles off the coast of France, C. S. Lewis wrote, “Flippancy is the armor against God’s Grace.”

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The O.C. Returns

The big story to come out of this election was pretty boring.

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When Times Get Shitty, Culture Gets Good

It’s four more years, and if history’s taught us anything, it’s that you can gas a lot of people in four years.

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Winter in America

Thirty years ago, Gil Scott-Heron, a black poet and songwriter, wrote the song “Winter in America.”

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A Mindy City

It has been two days since we declared war on the relationship between Joe and his girlfriend, and the battle is going well.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Ellipse

Cottage Guy: We have two traditions at Cottage: the naked lap, and throwing people in the fountain.
Ivy guy: You forgot the new one: sign-ins.

Overheard in Fine Hall

Math professor: Here's an example of an economic problem involving two goods...let's say, guns and beer. Economists are always talking about guns and beer.
Student: That's guns and butter.
Professor: Who cares about butter?

Overheard at an election party hosted by a certain campus group whose name rhymes with “Glory”

Guy 1: Oh man! We're so winning this election! Look, even black people are marching around with Bush/Cheney signs.
Guy 2: Yeah, because they probably can't read them.

Overheard in Rocky Dining Hall

Guy: So yeah, my roommate's always complaining to me about his girl problems, as I have something remotely comforting or helpful to say. I sit there like a guy on welfare having to hear about someone else's financial problems; you think I wanna hear this? I mean...have you see some of the monsters I've brought home at night?