Beware these words when they come out of a professor’s mouth. They THINK they’re making things easier for you, but nine times out of ten, they’re making your life more difficult. Case in point: My comm studies prof told us he wanted to “save us some money on coursepacks” and decided to not have a ...

Mark always used to talk about how everything would be all right if he were an ice cream vendor. But I note a couple of flaws in his logic: 1. The Music. You have to listen to the most obnoxious sound on the face of the earth: Essentially a giant, really loud music box directly ...

So on my final day, I was reminded today of yet another reason I don’t want to work at Blockbuster anymore: I constantly run into people I have no desire whatsoever to see. Like an ex. And her boyfriend. Who were being cutesy with each other in line. This was not Laura. Laura is THE ...

I just saw the Indigo Girls performing…on Headline News… I thought for a minute it was corporate synergy gone berserk, but they record for Epic, which is a Sony subsidiary. Anyone wanna explain this to me?

I really hate the exhaustion that school brings on. It’s one thing to work your ass off 40 hours a week, but I could never be a lawyer or an investment banker or a grad student or some other profession where you have to work ungodly hours and are expected to do fantastic work on ...

So I went and saw Patty Griffin at the Park West tonight, and she was excellent. The show was fairly low-key (she didn’t even have a drummer), which I normally don’t like, but I let her and Aimee Mann get away with because they’ve got such fucking gorgeous voices you actually want spare arrangements live. ...

So I was flipping through channels, and I came upon a Sheryl Crow concert on VH1, so naturally I watched it. The show immediately following, however, is what got my attention. It’s called the RedEye. It’s a like combination of Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Beavis and Butt-Head, and some fairly powerful hallucinogens. ...

The following was sitting in my inbox when I got back from class: “To All Concerned: A contractor will be burning the prairie grasses surrounding the lagoon beginning at 1:00 p.m. today, April 17, 2002. This is an annual maintenance procedure administered by Facilities Management. While this procedure will produce some smoke, there is no ...

So I have to find two subletters for the summer and a person for the year, and I’m thinking back to last summer, when I lived with Rumya and Aparna, who subsided on nothing but weed and chili powder. I’m specifically thinking of the time I came home from working at Blockbuster on a friday ...

My mother has offered me $1000 to stop swearing. I think the main reason she offered me such a large chunk of change is she knows there’s no way in hell I’d ever take it. I have sworn like a drunken sailor who used to be a truck driver driving through New York City since ...