FONTANA: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Well ladies and gentlemen, if you’re reading this then that means you’ve made it! That’s right, folks. We are now standing in what might appear to be, perhaps the greatest invention since elfster.com, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the reason I was born, the stupendous, the horrendous, that awkward-half-week-before-final-examinations-and-your-inevitable-death-blurgh. Well, we’ve sort of made […]
WHITING: A Twinkie eulogy
Hostess Brands are going out of business? What? Latest news is that after a crippling weeklong labor strike, the prolific baked good mogul is shutting down. This means it might be the end for everyone’s favorite nonperishable, cream-filled cupcakes, unless some capitalist Leviathan with a lick of courage comes to the buyout rescue. This also […]
KAWACHI: Never too old
Until 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, I will be in constant anticipation. When “The Hobbit” finally begins on the theater screen before me, my childhood will be rekindled. I first read “The Hobbit” in fourth grade, about 10 years ago. And ever since then, I’ve been obsessed with Tolkien’s world. I remember going to […]
WHITING: Status update
I left Facebook this weekend in the name of Finals Week self-improvement. And I was overjoyedy to learn that the same day I dyeactivated, The New York Times’ Roger Cohen (my future employer) posted an op-ed about over-sharing on social media, to which The New Yorker’s Richard Brody (and I rather like him, too) wrote a […]
OOMMEN: Happy Holidays?
December is a month of festivity. Streets are lit, everything is peppermint or pumpkin flavored, bodies of water turn into ice rinks and stores try to out do each other with creative gift baskets and bargains. However, while the Back Bay and other nicer parts of Boston come alive during the winter months, the atmosphere […]
