Soft-spoken philo-bro: I’m trying to cut back on the caffeine. 300 milligrams a day was feeling risky.
Chatty gay: And how much is in that yerba mate?
Philo-bro: Only 200. It’s about the tapering.
Overheard by the tables in that long hallway in Dillon
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wearing weighted blankets
first semester, i read and wrote and p-setted, claimed dual residency in forbes and ncw so i could eat until my mouth and stomach begged “no more,” got home everyday to lovely humans who never fail to make me laugh and that hasn’t changed since second semester. but second semester, i’m wearing weighted blankets …
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things i could remember
blue cheese root beer jukeboxes servals william howard taft blue footed boobies whale sharks hash slinging slasher triple trapeze john wayne gacy the movie baby geniuses 2015 four loko gold crossfit delta 8 ipod nano (on which I once watched the movie baby geniuses) meat lovers pizza roller skating suspenders my aunt’s birthday squid the…
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Fun Fact: Rocky/Mathey Trivia is Downright Cutthroat
Tensions run high at the Wednesday-night event.
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PRINCETON WINS!: Full Design
This week, the Nass triumphs athletically, fails intellectually, and eats the entire lemon.
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From Sleepers to Sweepers: Princeton Curling’s Unlikely Redemption Arc
A dark horse of college curling finally receives their flowers.
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On Lemons
The lemon was precious, as was every morsel of food that entered one’s house. I was raised to shudder at the mere thought of throwing away anything on my plate, encouraged to catch all the stray grains of kasha and watching my dad soak up every last bit of soup in his plate with the…
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Steep a Pot of Chinese Philosophy: This Princeton Business Owner is Selling Natural Balance
Health, harmony, and history with Paul Shu, owner of Holsome Teas and Herbs.
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First-Person Scooter: Full Design
This week, the Nass surveys a hostile world, finds meaning in the senseless, and explores new ways to heal.
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Escaping the Werewolf: Alex G, Deep Ecology, and Our Increasingly Hostile World
“There are a million wolves hiding in the environmental substrate I’ve called speargrass. The reality is that they’re not even wolves. When they get home in the evening, they take off the wolfskin and look just like us.”
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Corecore and the Logic of Montage
“This genre’s title, corecore, makes a totalizing claim on the thousands of balkanized subgenres and subaesthetics that fleet past the user: only a certain set of objects and clips can be dazecore or college dormcore, but corecore encompasses all such ‘cores,’ all these oddly particular aesthetics.”
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Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman
With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.