Winter formals are a comin’…

December 8, 2005

A Change Would Do You Good

Let’s play some free association. I say “Viv.” You say…“coffee.” Wrong. I say “Viv.” You say…“Sheryl Crow.” Right! About a week ago, I ventured to Café Viv for the first time in quite a while, softly singing “Soak Up the … Read More

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Caracas on my Mind

With angular features and shoulders broad enough to match his considerable height, Gabriel Heiber, 19, embodies the youthful energy of his idyllic surroundings at Bucknell University. He speaks quickly with darting gestures, unconsciously borrowed from his time spent in the … Read More

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The Reappearance of Simple Words

La Rambla of Barcelona is like a mile-long circus. Thousands of people speaking 20 different languages come and go on the promenade at all hours of the day, stopping to admire street performers dressed as mermaids, Roman statues, and harlequins … Read More

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Death and Diet, Morals and Morsels, Sin and Sirloin

Thanksgiving is always a good time to accent one’s moral superiority at the dinner table. I’m in a grumpy, stressed out state of mind, so here’s my beef…

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All Depressed with Nowhere to Go

Princeton is not conducive to good mental health….If you enter freshman year with problems, then you’re up the proverbial shit creek, and University Health Services is not going to throw you a paddle.

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Syriana

There’s a moment in Stephen Gaghan’s new film when, if you don’t already believe it to be the truth, you will be convinced of how evil and misguided our vice president is. Bob Barnes (George Clooney) has been captured, and … Read More

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Another Lonely Day

Wonderland Salvage is the first Intime production I’ve seen that boasts a “This show may not be appropriate for children under 16” sign by the box-office. As I discovered, this warning is not without reason. The show is dark and … Read More

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Too Hip for Their Own Good

Is Canada the new Seattle? Not quite, or maybe just not yet. But with the recent deluge of artsy, eighties-looking, super-hip indie bands from America’s neighbor (The Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene) our definition of cool has … Read More

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Russian to Aesthetics

“TRUST but verify,” goes the Old Russian proverb, and such a maxim can apply to the Guggenheim’s current “RUSSIA!” exhibit, which seems to require further probing – further verification – to find the reason for the obvious compensation attempted by using all capital letters and an exclamation point in its title.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Wilcox

Girl: While I'm drunk I shouldn't slide on my belly, because that's how you get pink eye.

Overheard on the bus to Avenue Q

Senior Girl: I always give hickeys because my teeth are really sharp. It's not like they're love bites, it's that I'm hungry.

Overheard during an intermission of Cabaret

Girl: I've got an idea! How about I pretend to fall in the kickline in the beginning of Act II?
Director: I've got an idea! How about you go douche with a nuclear weapon.

Overheard in Scully

Roommate 1: So the coconut cost $1.50?
Roommate 2: Yeah, and it's like a dinner for two. Man, that's what I'd eat if I were a hobo. [Pause] A hobo with power tools.

Overheard through email

Public Safety Officer: I would like you to make contact with me about a pending investigation.
Guy: "Contact."

Overheard at Commencement Fair

Colonial Male 1: So...would you bang Nala?
Colonial Male 2: [Short pause] The lion? Yeah, definitely.