Daisy Chain
On Feb. 28, 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H drew an estimated 125 million viewers in the U.S., the largest American audience for any program ever. Seventy-seven percent of the country’s households had a television on and tuned to CBS. The City of Los Angeles officially named the day “M*A*S*H Day.”
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A flooding of vision
Travel writing must negotiate the chasm between moving forward in narration and wallowing in the moment of description. Nowhere is this tension between time and space more lucid than in actual moments of travel, when scenes recede by the side of the road too quickly to be described. Traveling is a process of watching then, and, as I quickly realized, of being watched, because the gaze is like touch: by looking upon the other, they too can be looking upon you.
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Financial planning
A wise man once said that money won’t buy you happiness; however, it was an even wiser man who reasoned that being poor won’t buy you shit. As a college student, I think I’d have to agree with that second guy.
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Dining and whining at Quad
A reader recently asked me why I’ve never written an article about the food at Quad. I told them that it would be much too easy; it would be akin to Bobby Fisher stopping to play a game of checkers or Oscar Wilde taking a moment from producing his biting social commentary to laugh at a retarded kid. Make fun of Quad? Ha! Why don’t I poke fun at Steve Larson or ridicule Jen Krohn while I’m at it!? Why don’t I just make farting noises and run into poles!?
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Letters to the Editor
Still unconvinced on Iraq
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random rants
Stating your intent year-round
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