Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.
Overheard on Firestone A Floor
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Princeton’s Glass Menagerie
Considering glass buildings and the implications of tourism on Princeton’s campus.
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Yellow Afternoons
“There were always guava and mango, grapefruit and lychee. But, above all, there was always mother.”
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One-Minute Devotions
“I wondered what or who—a simple puzzle, a stakeless one, but one that, in context, made my expectation of strangeness a mystery lived.”
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Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven
“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”
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Climate reporting in the age of “alternative facts”
On the state of environmental reporting under Trump.
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Croc of Gold
“The king of clogs, sultan of slippers, ruler of rubber, the umph in umphibious, the ‘see ya later alligator,’ Guy Fieri’s favorite shoe”