Vibe Crafter

March 20, 2022

Inside Princeton’s Underground Student-Run Restaurant

A prix-fixe, a poached pear, and a labor of love.

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Vibe Crafter: Full Design

This week the Nass learns the lingo of NBA internet fandom, reflects on terror in public transit, and explores the secret world of dorm fine dining.

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To See Something And Say Something

“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”

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Something Real Fishy: Friendship, Twitter, and the Limits of the Dictionary

A personal take on the dialect of NBA internet fandom.

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Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From

“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”

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Ex Post Facto

“…I’ve become a spy for mankind.”

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If a Princeton Student Transferred Schools but Kept the Princeton Ego

Speculative fiction with a dash of entitlement.

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Cartoons, Caption Contest, & Art

Some cartoons for your Sunday pleasure.

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Overheard at Forbes

Fantasy Romance novel enthusiast: I actually have another fairy porn book waiting at Frist!

Overheard in Whitman

Focused student: I try to always be thinking about either boobs or the Buffalo Bills.

Overheard on the way home

Lonely friend 1: Why do you think I'm sad?

Lonely friend 2: (pause) Because you're not loved.

Overheard at Wu

Straight male bottom: "Do you know him? He's, like, one of the 30 gay guys here, you must know him."

Overheard during a witch-hunt reading

Witch 1: "Physical impotence was the counterpart of moral impotence." What does that mean?

Witch 2: Viagra is a moral shot to the dick.

Overheard in Lockart

Feminist radical: What does it matter if I'm capitalist or not in the face of period cramps.

Overheard at lunch

Revolutionary: orgies are definitely anti-capitalist.

Overheard in 1901

English student struggling with auto-biographical midterm project: Perhaps I should just cut my mother out.

Overheard over greasy, greasy pizza

Anthro major: Yeah, maybe I need to get back into wanting to be rich.

Overheard at a concert in Brooklyn

Girl: It’s annoying because he’s really into crypto, but he’s really bad at it.

Overheard on the subway

Guy: We'll cross that bridge when we burn it.

Overheard in a family group chat

Quant finance dude: I feel like the truest version of myself in black leather.

Overheard on a road trip

Driver reading a sign: Oh look, Syracuse!

Shotgun: Nope. Secaucus.

Overheard over Tarot

Scholar: You know the fool uses to be a bad card because it represented poverty and the fool was a peasant–

Woke friend: And then they realized that's classist?

Overheard at 2D

Girl, incredulous: You think I would have raw sex with someone whose last name I don’t know?!