Sunday, February 29, 2004

didn't really get anything done today, but that's okay because I'm pretty much wrapped up on the brief. took a nap on Celeste's bed while she talked to her parents downstairs. ate dinner with the housemates. talked to my sister on the phone. might catch her at the black cat tomorrow.
posted by weiss @ 8:24 PM 0 comments

continuing the spring break updates:
nothing terribly intereating, but i've had a great time! meg and I spent the entire day "urban backpacking" with my dad. we intended to wander through neighborhoods and trails between maryland and the kennedy center to catch the free bobby mcfarin show, but only made it to dupont for some beers. i'm exhausted, next up, NYC!
posted by kate @ 7:52 PM 0 comments

returning to the mindless state of boredom
out of all the things I didn't pack, why did my ps1 have to be one of them?
Muncie, Yorktown, and Ball State are still boring as all out. Also, found out I'm only really spending two full days in Arizona. At least it's a slight break from Indiana..
here's what's happened so far:
-Went to watch Peter Cook at BSU for Deaf Awareness Week
-Went to favourite coffee house (which was packed unfortunately due to a concert, and well, it was a bit too chilly to stay outdoors, so couldn't stay for the concert)
-Wandered my friend's dorm trying to find her room (managing to get everywhere without a BSU ID card to get through security)
-Visited my older brother & his 18 year old fiance
-watched a lot of children's programing on the Disney channel
-and found out my mom's boyfriend's daughter has been arrested.. she sent a girl to the hospital..
oh and still no call from the production assistant about the internship...

I think I'm going to go back to reading Why Men Rule by Steven Goldberg.
posted by Erini CS @ 2:52 PM 0 comments

From the APPE:

Number of times "Our neighbours from the North" were brought up as societal ethical role models : 3
Percentage of people who were balding like motherfuckers: 45%
Sessions I went to: 5
Sessions I skipped: 1
Sessions my Catholic friend (who drove my out there) skipped: 3
Time it took debating with him before I remembered that he's an ultra-ultra-Catholic: 20 seconds
Good, ethical conversations I had: 6

Also, just for fun, here are the other undergraduate presentations that won:

"On Granting Moral Status to the Embyo"
"An Argument in Favour of Selflishly-Motivated Service"
"The Shield Association: to Preserve and Improve our Law Enforcement"
"Global Government Through Global Economics: A Practical Guide to a Just World Government"
"A Social Contractarian Approach to Capital Punishment" and
"The Case for Humanitarian Intervention."

I'm not even kidding.

In other news, Happy February 29th! Have a good time, and do something crazy.
posted by sasha @ 2:01 PM 0 comments

Saturday, February 28, 2004

bread
don't refrigerate
don't use metal bowl or spoon for mixing
if air gets in the bag, let it out
day 1 squeeze
day 2 squeeze
day 3 squeeze
day 4 squeeze
day 5squeeze
day 6 add one cup flour 1 cup sugar one cup milk squeeze
day 7 squeeze
day 8 squeeze
day 9squeeze
day 10 in large non--metal bowl combine batter w/ 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk Mix w/ wodden spon. pour 3/4 cup starters into sepatate 1 gal. zip lock bags give the four starters away, MF
to the remaining batter add

1 cup oil i cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla 3 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

2 cup flour 1/2 cup milk 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 large instant vanilla powder 2 tsp cinnamon

in separate bolw, mix 1 tsp cinnamon and 2 tsp sugar and sprinkle into 2 well-greased loaf pans before pouring in the batter. bake at 325 for one hour
yummy
posted by kate @ 6:47 AM 0 comments

Friday, February 27, 2004

Why I Haven't Written More

Sorry Jules. I've been very busy. I feel like I have nothing to talk about.

Though I have started wasting time by reading the GW Law message board. People were arguing about gay marriage. I threw out my argument of "the problem isn't that Massachusetts giving gays and lesbians marriage licenses isn't that it will break down the traditional family but rather that it won't break it down enough." No one picked up. They were too busy talking about how this is/isn't/could/couldn't lead to people marrying Golden Retrievers.

And now they're all onto that new Mel Gibson movie. But hey, as someone once pointed out to me, if George Washington University won't make you anti-Semitic, nothing will.
posted by weiss @ 11:33 PM 0 comments

APPE

The presentation was given. It rocked the ethical house. There were many questions, they were nervously but intelligently answered. Copies of the paper were requested and sent out. Backs were patted all around. It is over. It feels so good. Now I can sleep in peace in my little Sheraton hotel room and go back to being a little weird and out of it. Because really, I have two post-docs less and twenty fewer years than your average ethics confence attendee (but three times as much hair!)
posted by sasha @ 6:23 PM 0 comments

what!
and i wasted the entire happy-go-moinkaly lucky shpadoinklely...dayyyyyy in the fucking mac lab finishing the card for my stupid senior show and it sucks who's getting sloshed tonight john's in i'm hungry this two cups of water for breakfast and toast for lunch thing is bull shit i'm getting me some hearty top ramen for dinner and for the record i am formally boycotting punctuation and linear thought till break is over. shit
posted by kate @ 6:01 PM 0 comments

Wait a minute!
Julia, are you saying that my blogs aren't interesting? Might I suggest the procrastination game posted in the wee hours of thursday morning?
posted by meg @ 5:00 PM 0 comments

Dammit, someone post something interesting on the blog! I'm getting to the point where I actually have to write my spanish paper for lack of interesting distractions.
posted by julia @ 12:58 PM 0 comments

Funky Flibbertigibbet

The mac lab stunk today; everyone who entered, commented on how much it stunk. "Oh man, I haven't taken a shower in days, My clothes are months old and my socks stink." I didn't say anything though. Instead, two other people volunteered their own putrid feet as the cause of the skankiness. Score!
posted by meg @ 7:05 PM 0 comments

Here's a good article about the obvious movie. Have a good time during your break in Goshen. I'd suggest you come visit me, but it would just end up with me being bitter, overworked, and unpleasant. I'll see you all soon enough.
posted by weiss @ 5:55 PM 0 comments

"Recrudescent;" it does have a use! (semicolens? I still don't know how to use them)

"As I imagine the possibility of a recrudescent winter, I have found myself unable to enjoy the wonderful weather and am therefore curled up in front of my computer in the corner of my living room next to the wall where the phone line connects. Fucking poo."
posted by meg @ 4:39 PM 0 comments

Shit! People are going to be pissed with me!

Just so everybody knows, I made a mistake in The Communicator today. Student tickets for Carthaginians are $10 for students, except for Thursday and SUNDAY when they are $7! (Friday admission is still $10.)
posted by D-Bo @ 4:14 PM 0 comments

sminglitwangilatoramifieredededmmpaowh
and then sometimes i eat some some crack for rugglets and it went poof
posted by kate @ 3:39 PM 0 comments

Funny you should mention it...

I just got back from a critic's screening of The Passion of the Christ in downtown London at the Odeon (the movie doesn't open here for another month or so). We were handed this folder with production notes in it which quote Mel Gibson as saying, "My ultimate hope is that this story's message of tremendous courage and sacrifice might inspire tolerance, love, and forgiveness." It also says it took seven hours each day to put on James Caviezel's incredibly gory make-up every day. And it shows. For most of the film, Jesus becomes little more than a gory lump that leaves bloody smears all over the place as it gets dragged from one torture chamber to another. He is the ultimate object of redemptive violence.

Its hard not to see this particular take on Jesus as a reflection on the omnipresent violence in our society. By isolating the most action-packed 12 hours of Jesus life, Gibson has created an Xtreme Jesus that fits well along side every other Xtreme product being peddled these days. Jesus's life and teachings are marginal, fragmented into flashbacks that give little context to the horror we see on the screen, let alone a coherent vision of "tolerance, love, and forgiveness." The vicious anger and condemnation we see from the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin seems unwarranted to the point of absurdity and there is no hint of the radical Jesus that threatened the power of the Jewish and Roman authorities.

Though Gibson may have been trying to get beyond the romantic, sterile, and even saccarine portrayals of the crucifiction so common in Jesus movies, he ended up with a portrait of Jesus that is just as dangerous. We end up with a neatly packaged divine scapegoat sent by God to be beaten, punched, kicked, scourged, whipped, gouged and battered for our sins. A bloody sacrifice and nothing more.
posted by Unknown @ 10:07 AM 0 comments

Jesus Christ!

It's absolutely ridiculous! It makes my stomach twist. When people talk about "The Passion of The Christ", you'd swear that they thought it was actually the Son of Man on the silver screen instead of Mel. Fucking ridiculous.
posted by meg @ 2:21 AM 0 comments

Charlie Charlie Smells like poo; Charlie Charlie Just like you.
oh man, this game rules!
(I made it)
posted by meg @ 2:11 AM 0 comments

"I mean, I feel like..."

"Untrained in logical analysis, ill-equipped to develop and construct formal arguments about issues, unused to mining texts for deposits of factual material, the students fell back to what they could truly call their own: what they felt about things. When feelings and attitudes are the main referents of argument, to attack any position is automatically to insult its holder, even to assail his or her perceived 'rights'."

-Robert Hughes, "A Culture of Complaint"

That's right MFs, next time you hear another fucking millennial start a sentance with "I feel..." now you know who to blame it on.

Joel Fath "feels like shit"

I feel happy because we had pizza, doughnuts, pineapple soda, and Lotsa Cola. Es Bueno.

Charlie Charlie, Chuck Chuck Chuck
Went to bed with three wee ducks.

Charlie Charlie went to sleep;
Three wee ducks began to weep.

When the sun did greet the morn,
Three wee ducks they all were gone.

-Greta, "The Cartheginians"

Is there a light in the darkroom?

-Ben Beachy

"I am the carrot of life,
those who eat of me will not go blind.
And if you eat of my orangeness
you shall see forever, you shall see forever.
And I will be a baby carrot,
and I will be a baby carrot,
and I will be a baby carrot on the la-ast day"

Ah yes...sleeeeep
posted by meg @ 12:08 AM 0 comments

"If amethysts could sing...they would sound like Judy Collins."

posted by meg @ 10:48 PM 0 comments

HERE
Oooh me, me!!
posted by julia @ 7:55 PM 0 comments

the joy of travel
so here I find myself sitting in Kidron, OH with nothing to do and bored outta my mind! the joy of admission travel... why am i here?
posted by dlt @ 6:55 PM 0 comments

Break

After I get back from my ethics conference it's all G-Town, baby.
posted by sasha @ 5:14 PM 0 comments

The two sides of Mr. Robin Wenger









posted by sasha @ 3:39 PM 0 comments

who is actually aboard the USS Shoup?
Alburn Binkley, erin bontrager, Tim Nafziger, meg schrock, Jesse Miller, ajh, sara, Christina Cruz, laura reist, hallie pritts, johnez fo-sheezy, Soooo Nosely Sausage, andrea milne, Ben Beachy, Valerie Amstutz, Emily Rodgers, hideat tewolde, kate schrock, Adam Derstine, Sarah Shirk, paul horst, lauren metcalf, celeste grace, sean kauffman, mary beechy, sarah phend, sasha, Erini Ypparila, eric diener meyer, katie Hochstedle, joel fath, tasara redekopp, Lo Tigre Mulleto, wanabanana banana, mike shank, julia hershberger, friend, Ross Bay, Landon Yoder, Katie O'Hara, eric kanagy, Sondra Eby, and Derek Bontreger
posted by kate @ 9:46 PM

Robin, this is for you.
posted by Erini CS @ 9:03 PM 0 comments

I Love Meg!

Everybody, Meg has agreed to pick me up from the train station in Elkhart on Tuesday morning, March 9 becaue she's just that cool. Please kiss or hug her when you see her next, as appropriate.

Dude, I can't wait to see you guys (esp. Meg)! Mostly because y'all are so great, but also because by that time I will be done with all this work.
posted by weiss @ 6:55 PM 0 comments

thank you daddy
my new toy came in the mail today... it's a iPaq Pocket PC. I definately feel spoiled since I merely mentioned it and then dad just gave it to me, but really don't care. Been having fun making themes for it... also installed Sega games... just another distraction from my edumacation...
posted by Erini CS @ 5:20 PM 0 comments

"You blew a good thing."

What David Letterman whispered into Harvey Pekar's ear after his last appearance on "Late Night."
posted by D-Bo @ 2:34 AM 0 comments

i'm 57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
alternate score: 70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
who was it that didn't know what a brew thru was? haven't y'all ever been to the beach?
posted by kate @ 2:00 AM 0 comments

Four more chances

If you haven't had a chance to support your local (starving) theater, you still have four more chances: this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. See what one of our biggest fans (aka Eric Diener Meyer's mom) had to say:

To all the good folks at New World Players:
It was a great show the other evening - I'm still thinking about it, and all the levels at which it touched me.  Thanks for bringing this kind of theatre to Goshen.
Brenda Meyer
posted by D-Bo @ 1:51 AM 0 comments

Yo, it's on.
By Bonnie Britton, Indy Star

"Lonesome Jim," an independent feature directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Liv Tyler ("The Lord of the Rings" films) and Casey Affleck ("American Pie 2"), starts pre-production in the northern Indiana city of Goshen on Monday.

The low-budget movie, a comedy-drama about a dysfunctional family, was written by James C. Strouse, formerly of Goshen and now a New York fiction writer.

"Lonesome Jim" is described as a man (Affleck) who returns to his Indiana hometown after failing on his own in New York. While living with his parents, he's faced with "crippling family obligations."

Because a winter setting is required for the film, shooting is expected to begin the second week of March and conclude by the first week in April.

Buscemi, currently seen in "Big Fish" and as a semi-regular on "The Sopranos" on HBO, is producing with Manhattan-based Plum Pictures.

Got resumé?
posted by sasha @ 12:19 AM 0 comments

Kratz 4 Panty Night

posted by meg @ 10:27 PM 0 comments

What they're protesting in Lancaster these days
Watch Elizabeth Bontrager's dad doing his best as a voice for the voiceless (or at least those who refuse to use their voice for religious reasons).
posted by Unknown @ 3:48 PM 0 comments

Shapiro are cool. And they're all so young, that's the weird part. The guitar player is like, 18. I told them to drop out of school and work on making it as musicians. They're better the Ben Folds, and he did it.

But now that I've blown off the weekend, I'm going to be very very busy. Very busy. So I won't be posting much. But I'm writing now to let Katie know that when you graduate they send you a card asking how you want your name on your diploma and what year you want to be associated with for reunions. You get to pick. It's pretty cool.
posted by weiss @ 2:22 PM 0 comments

Who's going to come eat with me in the Fraker at 2pm? Anyone? Anyone?
posted by julia @ 12:55 PM 0 comments

From the News Desk of The Guardian:

Doctors alert Australia to perils of Barbie pill. Its side-effects include an artificial tan, increased libido and weight loss.

US soldier on frontline in battle for refugee status. Family moved to Canada after private refused to fight in 'dehumanising' Iraq war.

Hell of news cycle. In other news, my grandmother is unwell. Let's think of her.
posted by sasha @ 10:56 PM 0 comments

Just so everyone is informed
That cute little boy that we call "Ross" and the kick-ass-cool girl I call Erin Zaleski (or wife of Ross's best friend Ben Erb), were, at the time that picture was taken, not ONLY Teens of the Month but ALSO student counsil presidents. Can we say "success monopoly"...? (This coming from the bitter salutatorian who graduated 8th in her class, paritially because of those two.) Just kidding, though. Comforting elbow hugs all around!

posted by julia @ 9:14 PM 0 comments

Damn, looks like my four years in the belly of the beast have taken their toll (at least linguistically): according to this test, I am "66% Dixie. A definitive Southern score!"
posted by sasha @ 8:44 PM 0 comments

as ross would say in a truly ross voice:
"snaps for the cast of carthagininans" and then snap some.

by the way, ben, you make a great puff
posted by kate @ 8:19 PM 0 comments

misunderstood:

I am excited, or would be if duane wasn't screwing us all over. That's what part 1 was about.

Part 2 was about the possibility of other things being exciting as well. I would never try to quell anyones excitement, just add to it.

part 3 is about jim strouse, who really gets me excited.

part 4 is that my last name is Meyer.
posted by eric @ 6:54 PM 0 comments

fuckers:

1: no you may not have real life experience. if i allowed you to have real experiences everyone else would want them and then i would be lonely. i don't want to be lonely. i want people to listen to me and love me. even in march. ah march, how i love you.

2: if steve doesn't want you on the weekends, I'll bet there would be some other good places to get some real life experience in communication and the arts. maybe some local places even. maybe even places that need your help more than steve fucking buscemi.

3: Jim Strouse cartoons rock!
posted by eric @ 11:57 AM 0 comments

In True Schrock Form
As it usually happens with those of us who have spent our college years the middle social echelon, I spend last evening wandering from party to party being either thoroughly bored or making a giant ass of myself. However, the excitement of the evening took place hours before the festivities began when Sara and I made a stellar batch of 28 "kenyan" samosas. The preparation of the hour and a half long meal would have been excitement enough if I hadn't decided to up the ante by sticking two of my fingers in the boiling hot vat of oil where the samosas where supposed to go. After having spent the night in wrapped in gauze and in critical condition, both fingers are doing much better but remain bright red from mid-finger to the tip and are still tender to the touch. Oh God, the typing, the typing, it's me death, oh the pain, the pain...ha ha, I can still type, nothing will stop me from typing on my computer, it's mine, and I love it and we will have many babies together. MINE!!!

p.s. fuck you steve buchemilienimineevee, how the hell am I supposed to give up from 10-8 for a whole fucking month if I plan to fucking graduate, I hate you, I want you, I hate you, damn you STEVE!! I hate you. ARrrggg, I'm so torn. I could have been involved with an independed film production company, my dream, my desire, the perfect job, I would have fucking sone anything for you, I hate you steve, but, God, I'd love to be a part of your fucking film. just let me be a camera intern and a graduate, that's all I ask.

p.p.s. Isn't "aposer" a funny non-word
posted by meg @ 10:15 AM 0 comments

Report from Settlers of Catan Tournament

So I went to the Settlers of Catan Tournament in Palmyra, placing 17th out of 28 competitors. It was about the most fun I've had for $5 in a really long time. Though I guess it was more than just $5 because I'll have to kick in a few bucks for Harvard House's snacks tomorrow.

Jeff, "Team DC's" star player managed to come in fourth, but was unable to secure any of the three coveted trophies for the event.

But now I'm at home. My parents have gone to bed. I'm staying up because my little sister just called and said she's on her way home. I'm sleepy because of my new vice: chamomile tea with lots of milk.
posted by weiss @ 11:14 PM 0 comments

answer
i guess that answers that question.
posted by eric @ 5:47 PM 0 comments

style
is this a new css style trend that will end after a relatively pointless poll involving sailors, or did someone forget to close their strong tag?
posted by eric @ 4:18 PM 0 comments

Say my name, bitch!

So I don't go out. Guilherme doesn't pick up when I call his phone so I decide to stay in. We're going to Lancaster early tomorrow morning for a Settlers tournament anyway. And while I'm packing Free Speech Radio News is on, and I realize that it's the last day for the pledge drive. So I call in and give them $35, money I maybe should have saved for visiting all of you, but hey, I need to be able to vote in station elections. It was good that I called in during FSRN because we need to show that we support radical news programs especially now as some folks are making claims about white radicals taking over the station. Take a look at some pictures of those white radicals. Where does Marc Fisher get off?

But anyway, they promise to say my name on the radio. I call Ang over and make her listen with me, but it goes on for a while without any luck. I yell at the radio some, but that doesn't work. Finally they do say it, but they mispronounce the last name in the usual way. They also refer to me as someone who is "involved with the community." I swear I'm not making that up. Maybe because I refered to DC Justice & Unity by name. But how couldn't I? Dude, Darby is so cute.
posted by weiss @ 11:07 PM 0 comments

feelgood picture of the day:


posted by sasha @ 4:29 PM 0 comments

boffee clog update!
link now...

posted by joel @ 4:08 PM 0 comments

Q: What's creepier than an ordinary creepy dream?
A: A creepy boy-girl-boy three-way sex dream involving people who don't really even know each other in real life.
Q: Wow! That's pretty creepy. What's a lot less creepy than that?
A: Dreaming that you transferred to a law school in the Florida Keys.
posted by weiss @ 3:11 PM 0 comments

Past and Future Cuban SSTers

First of all, I would like to say that I realize that this is the worst idea ever, but I think it would be fun anyway. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights comes out next week and I think it would be fun to get a group together sometime to go see it. Whether the movie looks good or not is irrelevant to me; I kind of feel obligated to see it just because I lived in Cuba--and more specifically, Havana--for a very short time. (And I realize that it was actually filmed in Puerto Rico, but it would be interesting to at least see how they portray Havana.) If people are interested, we should do it; if not, then I'll just order it on NetFlix when it comes out.
posted by D-Bo @ 2:16 PM 0 comments

Movie Still Frame

Dude, we sooo rocked back then.

p.s. celeste is the one with the pony tail, hadley is the one in the back, kate has the super cool old navy vest on, and I'm the one with the floppy-moppy poo hair.
posted by meg @ 1:28 PM 0 comments

In the news

My day has arrived. When I got to Merit, the alternative high school where I work, yesterday I found I had made it onto the much acclaimed "Merit in the News" bulletin board next to articles from local papers about the program, and Hadley's wedding annoucement (Hadley Lehman Bachman, who grew up with me, Kate, Meg, and Magdalen Hess, got married this summer and now lives in cape verde. She told me about the job at Merit.)

Anyway, I felt very honored that they put up the picture from the South Bend Tribune. And it's a good picture, unlike the ones from Model UN where I look drunk. I love me some Bolivarian Revolution, and some Flor de Cana.



http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/02/17/local.20040217-sbt-MARS-A1-Cup_of_justice.sto

When I tried to find a picture of Hadley on the web, my search was fruitless. Guess she needs to go to more Sojourners poetry readings.
posted by celestial @ 8:57 AM 0 comments

Breaking the 5000 barrier

It's official, AdBusters now has more than 5000 preorders for its black spot sneaker and you don't have to choose between the lesser of sweatshop shoe evils anymore. Isn't it ironic?
posted by Unknown @ 5:17 AM 0 comments

The Ushering Position
To gain the position of "usher," one must call after a certain "eric d m."

The Ushering Position

posted by meg @ 12:10 AM 0 comments

Meeee toooo!

How does one go about acquiring an ushering position?

(Hmmm...I wonder what exactly the "ushering position" would look like?)
posted by julia @ 9:20 PM 0 comments

Mi Casita is closed...I went to El Camino Royale #4 with Katie instead
Score, I'm going to see Carthiginians ons Sunday as an usher. I rule!!
posted by meg @ 7:38 PM 0 comments

ken ay git a oi oi fer consumerism? oi oi!
http://www.cafeshops.com/shoup
there isn't much/anything there yet, so e-mail me and i'll send you the password 'n' stuff if you have some designs you wanna sell, oi oi
posted by kate @ 2:06 PM 0 comments

Mothe Fuckers
The time has come on this hallowed day-before-friday in the year of our lord jesus christ who is up in heaven looking down for all good men (and women) to come to the call of your country. DOLLAR BEER DOLLAR TACO night!!! ring-a-ling the cave (533-0151) if you need a carriage, for I wilt not imbibe the spirits this eve due to a drought in the chedda' 6:45 MF!!!!
posted by meg @ 2:00 PM 0 comments

I've sold my soul to Ben & Jerry's.

Last night I purchased my fourth pint of B & J's ice cream for the week. Not only that, but Thursday night I found myself eating their coffee ice cream, browsing through their Web site and contemplating for a half hour what new flavor I could suggest they start making.

In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural, just as healthy as I can be, but at night I'm a junk food junkie; good lord have pity on me.
posted by D-Bo @ 11:04 AM 0 comments

Somday I'm gonna be famous
(but it's because I can sing)

I sang this on my bike ride to school today:

To God be the glory,
Great things he hath done;
So loved he the world
That he gave us the sun.
Come out from the shadows,
Come frolic, have fun!
Enjoy the warm weather;
Thank God spring has come!

Last night after the Record, I made up an angry song about tampons; it's a little less lyrical:

I hate you fucking tampons of death!!!
you fucking vagina eaters
your rayon sucks, your dioxides suck
and you suck suck suck suck suck

chorus:
Fucking-vaginia-eaters-of-death
fucking-vagina-eaters-of-death

You're made with cottton from the field
it's got pestasides, kill the earth, kill me
your cotton sucks, your dioxides suck
and you suck suck suck suck suck

Funny that: I didn't finish composing that before I got home, I actually stayed awake in bed for a while finishing it. It's amazing how gone your mind is at 4:00 in the fucking morning
posted by meg @ 10:05 AM 0 comments

Want a great way to not fall asleep?

Erini, you should just join The Record staff. Guaranteed sleepless nights, at least once a week!

Also: Isn't this just the sort of thing to break your heart?
A reprint:

Poetry Corner: Hallie is Dancing
by Aaron Liechty

In the fall night the smell
of oak and maple
lies heavy. leaves gather between the steel tracks
that run south out of sight, and in the brick chapel
that stands near the rails, jacob is wrestling
with God. downstairs
in the lab, ayo is typing
rahul is printing out graphic design
nearby, in gray d, jesse is spilling warm cider
and rachel is walking in leaves
tonight.

adam and kristina are earnestly seeking
truth (under leaves)
tim and lalo are falling (from the trees)
and someone is shaking behind Yoder hall
someone is shaking with mental disease
but hallie is dancing out by the fountain
hallie is dancing with luke tonight

a girl in a dark room is silently drawing
a hunched man sleeping in a winter night
and hallie is dancing out by the fountain
hallie is dancing with Luke tonight

the only music is out by the fountain
sweet swing music in the amber light
and Hallie is dancing
out by the fountain
hallie is dancing
with luke tonight.

I love you all. Goodnight.
posted by sasha @ 3:39 AM 0 comments

what gets me through record night?
an entire bag of grapes and six packets of crushed saltines.
posted by kate @ 3:00 AM 0 comments

stuck
so i'm revising, but I'm not sure where to go from here. any comments?

Millennial Mennonite Goes to College
-apologies to Julia Kasdorf, David Wright and the rest

I do not dance; I sing bar songs that I learned
from my Dominican host family and down at the Courthouse Pub.
I wash my feet in the shower and wish I could go back to bed.
I only clean up disasters when I can get out of class to do it,
and pray that supper will be provided.
I eat the Lords Supper every chance I get: Triscuits with Brie and a Stroh's
because I can't afford the wafers or wine but you're bringing the cheese.
I suffer for the cause like Keanu Reeves and Felix Manz
because The Man wont let me drink on campus and
quizzes me over the reading every Wednesday.
I don't have a recipe for Borscht or the time to make it.
I drink another Stroh's and know I will never be perfect as Lebowski is perfect,
as White Russians and Nihilism are perfect.

My heavenly father is dead or napping but The Dude abides forever.
posted by eric @ 2:34 AM 0 comments

youins, read now...

fair trade @ gc & fair trade blog @ gc

hey ya'll. so, here's a little project i want input on. part of my work this semester is continuing the information stream regarding the gospel of fair trade coffee. as you can see the college has signed on, granting the project webspace. in the coming months a website in addition to the blog explaining fair trade and offering more information about the recent media trip to el salvador will be posted. plans are for a flash site and a text-only site.

i want your ideas as to how we can best use this space to talk about fair trade coffee, globally and locally. as articles are released from our media team i will post them on the blog with photos. i would encourage you all to e-mail me links to articles you come across in your web browsing.

i envision the blog as a space where students can be kept up-to-date on the progress of the new coffee shop being planned for the infill.

here is a visual breakdown of the file structure i am considering...

goshen.edu

• /fairtradecoffee




• /blog




• /photos (limited number of images)


• /published articles


• /online discussions




• /interactive flash page (general information about fair trade)




• /movie currently in production (everblue media)


• /flash photo gallery


• /text explaining the coffee process and answers question "why f.t.c.?"




• /text only page (mirror of flash page w/o the flash; quick download)




• /photo gallery (similar to tim boshart's)


• /text explaining the coffee process and answers question "why f.t.c.?"

roar! i don't like how this rendered. list tags. bah. help...

any input is welcome. anyone wanting to play around with styles and colorings let me know. i am currently in the design stage of choosing colors and thinking about the look of the www.goshen.edu/fairtradecoffee, and want suggestions and ideas.

this project, although austensibly being organized by myself, should reflect a broader range of ideas than just my own. as the college commits to installing a new coffee shop and considers the fair trade question, let us use this blog and webpage to further the education of persons on campus and in our community.

sigue adelante



posted by joel @ 2:29 PM 0 comments

In Other News
Howard Dean announces he's quitting the race and his loyal bloggers respond at a rate of 7 comments per minute in the first hour.

I wonder what the record is for comments per minute.
posted by Unknown @ 1:36 PM 0 comments

Carthaginians

Just a reminder that the New World Players season starts this week. Come see Carthaginians this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well as next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Since you're a student, you get a discount! Come see Ben Friesen, Nicole Miazgowicz, Robin Wenger, PR's Rachel Lapp and me attempt Northern Irish accents. You also get to see Friesen in drag, Wenger with a mullet and me with some Skanky McNasty hair. (For more information, look for posters around campus or go to www.newworldplayers.org/.)

Language and adult material may not be suitable for children.
posted by D-Bo @ 12:21 PM 0 comments

Shapiro

So my second cousin Joel is coming up from EMU on Sunday. His friends have a gig at The Warehouse Theatre. Check them out. They're pretty interesting. I'm excited to catch up with Joel.

posted by weiss @ 11:55 AM 0 comments

this is just to say

I have heard
that the movie
directed by steve buscemi

and which
they were maybe
going to film in goshen

is happening
in goshen
in march.

would you like some coffee? photocopies? there are some things that are worth a "w".
posted by eric @ 11:35 AM 0 comments

The people have spoken



Also: just for the kenags, this.
posted by sasha @ 10:59 AM 0 comments

Oh goody goody goody! I saw an un-named chapel scanner lady (coughecky coughorst) actually running (coughwhichmustbetoughconsideringthesizeofstickshehasshovedupher coughass) across campus to report the busy-bodied students she caught skipping a well intentioned reflection chapel because those hard-working students probably had some library reading they needed to get done or something. heh heh, fortunately i saw the capture iin action and stuck out the other door, wee hee hee!

wow kate, that's great.
omg, the last 12 e-mails i've sent have been to people who's names start with "j"
and to no one person more than 5 times. crazy.
posted by kate @ 9:55 AM 0 comments

Vote early and often
Uh, in case you didn't notice you can vote as many times as you want in the poll. And yes, I voted three times just to test the loophole thoroughly...
posted by Unknown @ 7:10 PM 0 comments

bah, sleep
So.. I've got an EEG on Thursday.. and well, they're only allowing me 4 hours of sleep before hand.. and no caffiene.. anyone have any ideas on things to waste my night away on?? I've already rejected a Star Wars marathon..not that I don't like the flicks, but my goal is to stay awake.. movies = sleepy erini. Also, I refuse to spend that time studying.. if anyone has a video game system that they'd be willing to let me borrow, you'd be my hero.
posted by Erini CS @ 5:06 PM 0 comments

Coffee

I usually avoid this stuff, but I needed to get some work done this afternoon. I have to admit, I think I'm really getting what's going on in Civil Procedure.

But hey yeah, it was great to get to see all of you guys. Y'all are fuckin' fantastic and I am fully reminded of that now that I'm back. Though people here do go on dates and worry about when to call or when they should worry about not being called, which is amusing. But y'all are much cuter.

Anyone who I didn't see, or didn't see as much of as I should have, I am sorry. However, keep hope alive! I will be back in Goshen for the week that follows your spring break, as I mentioned to many of you. During that time I promise that I will make a greater effort to hang out with everyone who I didn't see enough of this past weekend.
posted by weiss @ 4:14 PM 0 comments

First off: Girls eating sandwiches!

Next:

The Whos down in Whoville liked this country a lot,
But the Grinch in the White House, he really did not.
He didn't arrive by the will of the Whos,
But stole the election he really did lose.
Vowed to "rule from the middle," then installed his regime.
(Did this really happen or is it a bad dream?)

Didn't listen to voters, just friends he was pleasin'
Now, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason.
It could be his heart wasn't working just right.
It could be, perhaps, that he wasn't too bright.
But no doubt the most likely reason of all,
Is that both brain and heart were two sizes too small.
In times of great turmoil, this was the bad news,
To have a big gummint that ignores its Whos.

There's more. Check it out

Finally: Conservative blogs can suck my ass
posted by sasha @ 1:29 AM 0 comments

POST TURTLE
So here is this nice little contribution that I got today form a certain GC faculty member... enjoy!
While suturing a laceration on the hand of a 70-year-old Texas rancher (whose hand had caught in a gate while working cattle), a doctor and the old man were talking about George W. Bush being in the White House. The old Texan said, "Well, ya know, Bush is a 'post turtle'."

Not knowing what the old man meant, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old man said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle." The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, he can't get anything done while he's up there, and you just want to help the poor stupid bastard get down."
posted by dlt @ 7:45 PM 0 comments

Goshen College Sapometer predicts March 10 as first day of spring;
Punxsutawney Phil protests, then joins efforts.

Also known as: "Ben Friesen makes an ass out of himself while people freeze nuts off; shits and giggles had by all."
posted by sasha @ 3:39 PM 0 comments

OMG FIRE!
it's ass cold
so you should come to rubber
'cause there's a fire
in a good sorta way
at 8pm
t'nite
rock on
fire on
and bring something to eat or drink, you know, something to keep you all toasty like inside
posted by kate @ 5:58 PM 0 comments

Comments son finito.

Sailors, however, are just getting started.
posted by sasha @ 1:49 PM 0 comments

posted by kate @ 10:58 AM 0 comments

Questions for a music major
Can somebody please define for me (in musical terms and related to the infamous Charles Sanders Peirce) what it means to "stress the primacy of continuity in phenomena." I'm at a loss.
posted by meg @ 9:23 PM 0 comments

gone.
we were debating if the comments were a good thing or not, so we decided to try them out until there were any major objections, then we'd remove them, so they're gone now... bitch :)

in other news:
this weather is amazing! if your not out making snow angels or bike riding or snowboarding or taking a walk with that special valenitine of yours or whatever, you are missing out, damn that's fine sun... bitch...
on the other hand, if you are not doing any of the above, then your nipples probably don't hurt like mine do, damn it's cold
oh yeah, happy valentines day
posted by kate @ 4:40 PM 0 comments

How the hell do you sell a shirt with an animated gif on it?

Like, is it random which words you get printed on the computer screen? or did they some how figure out a way to put animated gifs on t-shirts. this is very disturbing. I want an animated gif t-shirt. and I am painting right now, in case anybody cares to save me from the horrible monotony of creation.
posted by meg @ 4:35 PM 0 comments

Rundown: Concert was great. Mirror was great. Science Olympiad—also great. Conducting workshop=awesome. 'Comments' feature on a page where everybody just blogs their comments already: awful. I'm putting a new poll up about it (Jo-Ann Brant won the last one by 43.2% over Johnny D's 38.6%), but I'm pretty sure this is going to have to go. In the meantime, check out the shirt! Only $15... and "Makes a great gift for conservative parents to give to their misunderstood loved one's!"

cheers,
smd
posted by sasha @ 4:24 PM 0 comments

This just in:
In an attempt to cross culture boundaries and expand communication skills, Meg Schrock, a senior at Goshen College, joined an expedition team heading towards an ruthless and chronically inebriated culture called College Party: Mirror House. In an attempt to assimilate with the foreign culture, she adopted traditional garb and applied ceremonial face paint. She also removed her glasses which are considered taboo by the foreign culture. The evening took a turn for a worse when Schrock, unable to recognize herself, attempted to begin a conversation with her reflection in the mirror-wall. Authorities attribute the confusion to the loss of glasses and chemicals seeping into the brain via imbibed substances and leakage from the massive amounts of makeup.

posted by meg @ 2:29 PM 0 comments

posted by meg @ 2:26 PM 0 comments

i'm pretty sure this is illegal, but thanks to david housman:
here's a list of GC students by their first name?
and by their phone?
posted by kate @ 11:34 AM 0 comments

My crotch

I thought it was just that I had been really forgetful lately (after all, I am pretty stressed); but in reality these U.S. Polo pants that I'm now wearing has a zipper that slowly unzips on its own.
posted by D-Bo @ 1:22 AM 0 comments

Goshen!

Okay I am in Goshen now. Anyone planning on sleeping in Celeste's bed tonight, be warned, I will beat you around the ankles and wrists with a stick until you leave.
posted by weiss @ 3:59 PM 0 comments

Re: Noose & tie

Cocky answer #1: There's a difference?
Cocky answer #2: Neither, it was a tie!

Orchestra concert tonight, y'all. Plan on seeing you all there.
posted by sasha @ 12:50 PM

Sarah Kate and Ashley: Where are you, fools? Y'all were all like, "Let's leave at 5am!" And I was like, "If you show up at my house before 5:30am I'm gonna throw things at you and go back to bed." So they were going to be here at 5:30. And where are they now? No where to be seen, that's where. Fools.
posted by weiss @ 5:39 AM 0 comments

Eating at Steak 'n Shake alone at 5 A.M.

So, the past three nights my bedtime has been 4:30 A.M., 4:30 A.M. and 5:30 A.M. because of my crazy schedule. Last night I needed an extra boost to continue working--even though I didn't have that much more to do--so, I rode uptown at about 4:30 looking for food. Of course no place was open (not even Taco Bell) so I went out to Steak 'n Shake and, at 4:45 A.M., I ate eggs and bacon and sausage and two pancakes with syrup and orange juice. It was a pathetic sight, but it was satisfying and gave me the energy I needed to continue. It is now almost 2 on Friday morning and I have a five-pager that's due at 9 (haven't started yet), but I just finished my two chalupa clubs and I'm eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's so I'm ready to go. The question remains: Why am I blogging instead of being productive? I do not know.
posted by D-Bo @ 1:40 AM 0 comments

got bored with the penguin...

posted by Erini CS @ 9:50 AM 0 comments

Season Tickets!
Yay! You were just asking yourself how you were going to get into all those New World Players shows at a reduced price, and now there's a way! Thank God and Eric Kanagy, they are available just in time for the first show of the 2004 season!

Season Tickets: for four shows...
Regular (Fridays or Saturdays): $55 Adults, $35 Students and Seniors
Matinee (Thursdays or Sundays): $45 Adults, $25 Students and Seniors

This is a great price for 4 shows, especially compared to the show-by-show prices, which would add up to quite a bit more.

I have to sell 20 of these by next thursday, by the way... I'll be taking orders by phone (534-3425), email (emeyer@newworldplayers.org or ericam@goshen.edu) and even at the Union (probably on Monday). Let your friends know so they can get in on the cheapness as well.
posted by eric @ 1:18 AM 0 comments

Not much of a day, but I feel I should report anyway. I got called on today in Civil Procedure, which sucked because I hadn't read the McKenna problem very carefully, but didn't suck because I understood the choice-of-law principles behind it. I managed to get off one good laugh from the class by replying, "Um... yes," to a very long and convoluted question. It was, happily, the right answer.

The day was largely boring I suppose because it involved lots of working ahead so I can miss Monday class and see you all. I'll be rolling into town around 4 or 5, first priority probably being catching my sister at the radio station.

Oh, I guess the other interesting thing is that I asked a lot of people who had been to India about whether they too thought that street violence isn't a big threat in various Indian slums, despite the immense poverty. Michael Albert thinks so. They all said that they felt very safe. I then asked them why. They mentioned a lot of different things, but all of them mentioned that there aren't any guns. Which, while I didn't push them on it, doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you read the police blotter, only a handful of the muggings in DC involve a gun. Most don't even involve knives. It's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving. So I still don't feel like I have a good answer to my question.
posted by weiss @ 11:44 PM 0 comments

Thanks to Sasha for the invite..

Just curious.. did any of you eat at the rot tonight? and if so, did you get hit up to voice your opinion for or against cheerleading at GC? I didn't. Of course, I was at a table full of females like myself. So yeah.
I don't know what to think of this. I'll admit to wanting to be a cheerleader at one point (mainly thoughts of doing so in college)... but I really don't think this is something for GC. I can understand the desire to get more people to go to basketball games or volleyball games.. I'd just rather see the whole GC community go out there and cheer them on. A group of guys and girls in uniform yelling at me is not going to make me have school spirit. Not to mention, where is funding for this going to come from?
posted by Erini CS @ 7:27 PM 0 comments

hey y'all,
meg, kate and i (and possibly katie o.?) are going to see hedwig and the angry inch (for free) at notre dame tomorrow evening (thursday). john cameron mitchell will be there and will do a q&a afterwards. (we're excited.) there's still room for 1 or 2 more people in my car and we'll be leaving around five from rubber.
-sara
posted by Sara @ 6:30 PM 0 comments

and again.

posted by eric @ 5:26 PM 0 comments

ahem..
to all those who are wasting away their wednesday hitting penguins:
I would like to issue an official weekly reminder that kate schrock does work at the soda shop on wednesdays, and we seem to have an unusual small number of GC kids show up with the exception of kirsten peterson and the music dept. so drag your ass on over fools!
posted by kate @ 4:25 PM 0 comments

Best part of the HO/YDL227C gene presentation this afternoon:

Me: So, because of the spontaneous mating-type switching, in the lab we have to keep this gene from being expressed.
Stan: How do we do this?
Me: Um... gene repression... I think. Pimps up ho's down?
laughter

Also, do you just want to join, Erini? 'Cause I can get you the hookup.
posted by sasha @ 3:47 PM 0 comments

It bounced!
posted by Unknown @ 12:40 PM 0 comments

Rabid White House Press Corps

Have you ever wanted to see the White House reporters stop being so polite and really stick it to Dubya? Well, Michael Moore seems to have really gotten them going by pointing out that Bush was a deserter. Normally, I'd be all in favor of skipping out on Guard duty, but of course Dubya turned around and sent National Guard reservists to their death for nothing. And suddently the media seems to be taking notice. Yesterday's press briefing is a particularly pleasant read (strangely enough, the video link doesn't seem to work).

posted by Unknown @ 10:17 AM 0 comments

all i want to know is:
will janet jackson please give me a call when she arrives? I miss her so much that I am tempted to download all her albums. 534-3425.
posted by eric @ 1:21 AM

The Corporation

Have you ever wished that someone would make a documentary about the inate evilness of massive corporations? Not just about one big bad corporation, but a movie that really showed just how destructive hundreds of immortal greed-motivated "persons" wandering around the earth could be? Well if you made it through that last sentence with enthusiasm intact, then check out the trailer.

posted by Unknown @ 11:46 PM 0 comments

just to clear things up
i win.
posted by kate @ 11:35 AM 0 comments

Dance of the plastic bag

Last evening the wind was blowing bristly down the streets of Islington as I walked home. I stopped to watch a plastic bag soaring and dancing in the sky. Of course I thought of American Beauty. I realized I could respond in two ways:

1. How horrible, corporate pop culture has commodied everything, even something as innocent and pure as an empty plastic bag.

or

2. Wow, that movie really helped me appreciate the simple things in life. Even an empty plastic bag has transendent meaning and beauty.

posted by Unknown @ 5:21 AM 0 comments

posted by sasha @ 8:43 PM 0 comments

The HO/YDL227C Gene and Homothallic Switching Endonuclease is in the house!



posted by sasha @ 7:31 PM 0 comments

what wcsc where? food?
in true form, former shoupers rocked the free pizza tonight, accounting for at least a quarter of the attendees.
posted by kate @ 6:19 PM 0 comments

It's Bad News Bears for Sarah Moyer.

Unfortunately for her, I heard her admit (while I was passing through the 'Fraker today) to watching this film last week.
posted by D-Bo @ 4:52 PM 0 comments

A bad foot year

I renewed my deep love and admiration for Bill Kinsey, the college's physical trainer. Again, he took pity on a certain student with a proclivity toward foot injuries who is uninsured in the state of Indiana. My left foot, which I injured in a hostel in El Salvador while staying up to play poker with a group of pastors and social justice activists, does not have a broken big toe, it's just badly sprained. Therefore, I will have to massage my feet or prey upon others to do so to alleviate 3 weeks of old swelling. Unlike bad foot circulation, Bill Kinsey is awesome.
posted by celestial @ 4:22 PM

I mean...
I feel like i kinda want to know what happened at the 20%, 50% and 100% level
posted by kate @ 8:56 AM 0 comments

What we've been up to at Brick House this weekend



























posted by sasha @ 9:35 PM 0 comments

Free Beer!
Seriously, there are three cans of Busch Light just sitting alongside the road. I kicked them and they seemed full. All three are still in the plastic six-pack holder which, much to the detriment of the local small animal population, has not been cut. I didn't have a knife along, or I would have done so. Actually, if I hadn't been running I would have taken them with me.
posted by weiss @ 5:39 PM 0 comments

Homosexual loving: The way nature makes it
Love that dare not squeak its name
My lingering question from the article: Assuming, as I've heard, that only humans and dolphins have orgasm, can same-sex dolphin couples get each other off? Do have the same sexual practices that human do? My onomatopeia for a dolphin orgasm: "eee. eee. EEEEEEEEEEEEEE."
These young male penguins are in love.

posted by celestial @ 5:46 PM 0 comments

Unfounded Rumours!

1. First Bona at the Truth,
   
2. Then the Beeb picks it up (bottom of page)
   
3. Now imdb...
   

   This could be big. Check next week's Record (oh wait, I haven't written it yet).
   Update:

4. Also here,
   
5. here,
   
6. and, strangely, here.
   

   And if you can handle it,
   

7. French.
   
8. Portuguese,
   
9. and Italian.
   

   Damn.

posted by sasha @ 5:41 PM 0 comments

WWW.PRESIDENTMATCH.COM

My results: Kucinich: 100%; Sharpton: 97%; Kerry: 88%; Dean: 85%; Clark: 82%; Edwards: 82% and ... Bush: 8%.

Compare the two and then try it yourself.
posted by sasha @ 4:46 PM 0 comments

Birthday Boy

Okay, so Ross' Birthday is tommorow February 7th, but he will be in Chicago partying his ass off as he does, so make sure you tell him happy birthday today and make him happy and if you can't find him, call his cell phone 574-903-9455 and wish him a happy happy gay ole time!
Happy 22nd Big Boy!
posted by dlt @ 11:25 AM 0 comments

my response to essay question #20 after two hours of god-awful music history test:

"new and special"?! WFT! How in the hell am I supposed to figure out what work/style you are referring to when the only hint you give me is "new and special"? I mean, isn't everything we study supposedly revolutionary and unique? I mean, why the fuck else would we study it? I mean, I pretty sure people forgot about the "old and boring" composers a looooooong time ago. Or maybe I just missed that class period. Shit, even the phrase "new and special" doesn't live up to its ideals. Bad, bad question, Matthew. This goes into the same category as your other horrible question: "Tell me everything you know about J.S. Bach." I'm disappointed in you.

posted by julia @ 11:08 AM 0 comments

• Eric: I like the dark and depressing site, actually. I mean hell, you're artistes. That fruit thing is also really cool.
  
• Robin: Okay, I admit. It was a shameless ploy to get you back. I miss you.
  
• Anna: I miss you, too. You're the best sister I could ask for. Call me.
  
• Neil Young: Man, you must be tired because you've been running through my head all day.
  

posted by weiss @ 12:30 AM

on top of things, hell, i'm so on top of things it's like... um... well i'm really super on top of things
i know exactly what i'm doing for my stupid stupid stupid senior show, not only that, but i'm almost done and i'm excited about what i'm doing! yay for me, see every one is happy. what about your other classes kate? WTF? other classes, well, i love that special one we have in the MC, and art history, they should just give me a test on the whole book right now, it's not like i haven't already read the book half a dozen times through! and your papers? oh, my papers, i love writing papers, some times i write a paper, and then write another paper to counter the first, just for shits and giggles! yay for being on top of things and having a happy-go-lucky life, some times i frolic. wow kate, sounds like you sure are on top of your academic life, and that frolicing thing too, how about your personal life, aren't on the record, aren't you ever tired? ha ha ha, tired, no, i sleep well and long, my bed is warm, the sheets are fresh, i find it helps to take some time before getting ready for bed (you know showering, brushing teeth, shitting, all things i do regularly) to have a warm cup of milk, or some prunes, or a nice swift kick in the face (it adds color) yeah, how about a big fat kick in my big fat face, that would be great, that would just about top it right now. God kate, WTF? it sounds like you've been drinking, calm the fuck down a little. drinking?! bitch, i've got shit to do, i don't drink, i'm too poor to drink, stop fucking bothering me, i keep dying... damn, i lost another copter, shit, i died, not even in the high scores...
posted by kate @ 12:21 AM 0 comments

i'm so on top of things
i fixed that text graphic years ago (around 11:30pm) and I have added a happy fun page just to prove that not everything is as bleak as we think it is! It's happy and fun! I'm happy and fun! You're happy and fun! Yeah for happy fun people like us! here's a link to another colorful and not-bleak site!

And: Nice work on the community thing web page, Mike, it's looking real nice. ditto with weiss on making those top links more visible, but I think the placement is cool. I also like the oedipus site. simple works well for that one.
posted by eric @ 12:08 AM

Oooh, how exciting... my very first blog. yeehaw kate. good job... more to come :)
posted by dlt @ 9:14 PM 0 comments

my brain

I plead insanity. Really, if you don't sleep for a certain amount of time, can't you be certified as insane? Or is that just is you do a lot of acid and then don't sleep for a week?

I swear I am not responsible. It was my foul master, Recordatron, that sullied my mind and lured me back to its cave, the innocent car left vulnerable to demon parking ticketers in the handicap space.

Our saving fortune: the owners of the besmirched vehicle will only be on campus for three more months, and should be able to avoid future attacks. Though, if such attacks should occur, I will use my checkbook to defend against them.
posted by celestial @ 8:58 PM 0 comments

Backpack come home!

What happened to you, backpack? We were all hanging out together in the Hub last night, having a good time and then you disappeared! What's up with that? I know I was a little rough that one time when I got some papers out of you, but I was just excited about the record poll, really. I swear if you come back I'll treat you right. I'll oil your little zippers and brush off your tight little black body. How much I miss your mountain-bike racing decals already! Please come back to me tonight so I can study for my Physics test tomorrow. You have my book and notes.

Life just isn't the same without you, backpack. Please come home!
posted by sasha @ 7:00 PM 0 comments

and honey too
okay, so like last night sometime, feleste* borrows our car for something, i dunno, i wasn't involved, anyway, so she parks in in a handicap spot, because i think feleste hates handicap or something, i dunno, anyway, so the ticket lady man person comes around and is like, "gee, dey dunt haf ah geecee perking teek'it er nuthin' and dey in ze handikapp place si i give dem a teek'it, ya," so like meg comes out of da hub a 5am and is like, "o god damn mother fuckiner expletive expletive etc. etc. i got two fucking tickets" or something like that, again, i wasn't there.... yeah, so the point of this story is that on the back of this ticket it says:

Faculty, staff and students: if you git a ticket give us 35 bucks bitch. visitor: visitors** don't get fined, we'll just be passive-agressive-ass mennonites and give you a bunch of tickets or something or nothing, whatev' man, here's a joint, we love you, you should enroll at GC or give us money, or better yet, i'll sell you my soul

score! or at least i hope so.

* names have been change to protect the innocent
** does it make me a visitor if i don't have a sticker?
posted by kate @ 4:15 PM 0 comments

Because I care...

I wish I could make it to the "Take back the College" night at the fraker. I'm itching to hear what kind of stuff y'all are going to stir up. Can we all have a report from the great gathering of creatures (or whatever)?

Ericdienermeyer, the New World Players site is beautiful. The sub-pages switch smoothly with the orangey pear template, except for the news page, which twitches a pixel or two to the right from the others.

It's nice to see that the blog already has four posts at this time in the morning. That's a record setting pace if we can keep it up all day.
posted by Unknown @ 5:06 AM 0 comments

You. Tonight. Fraker.
And Beachy said, "Hey.  Just a reminder that a heckload of cool folks are gathering tonight at 9:30 in the Fraker to talk about what we should be proposing to the Board of Directors to increase student involvement in future decision-making.  Please come if you can, and bring all your friends who give a dang.  See you tonight." And all the creatures moved along the ground according to their kinds. And Beachy saw that it was good.
posted by meg @ 4:24 AM 0 comments

because you care

i have updated and will continue to update http://www.newworldplayers.org. It is worth looking at.

If you are inspired you can tell me why it sucks or how inspired you are to help the arts in goshen and will donate your time/money/toenail to the cause.
posted by eric @ 3:17 AM 0 comments

1. Small victory for today: Convincing the clerk at Copenhaver to let me exchange executive-size resume paper (7.5 x 10) for letter-sized resume paper, despite the facts that I didn't have the receipt and that the box was kind of banged up. Go me!
   
2. Spanish speakers: Is there a word in Spanish that sounds like "preparty?" Because if not, some embassy personnel are definitely borrowing it from the English.
   
3. Interesting Event:Lambda Law is holding a demonstration Saturday during the interviews. The law school association is not allowing recruiters from JAG (military law branch, also my initials) on campus because JAG does not allow sexual minorities to join. At first JAG lashed back by getting Congress to cut off federal funding to law schools. Big whoop, we don't get any. But now with the Soloman Amendment Congress is threatening to cut off all federal funding to not just the law school but the associated university. Bad news for GW Medical Center, for example. So at first I thought it was nice that Lamba Law was actually doing something. But then I was like, wait, what the hell? What's next, gays demonstrating to join the KKK? At least the Klan has the decency to kill people one and a time or in small numbers. Anyway, as always Michael Bronki says it best.
   

posted by weiss @ 4:36 PM 0 comments

Laura
nice blog
Mike
It's not me, although I wish it was; Caitlin Wade once complimented me on my choice of Reindeer Selection, but it wasn't my choice, it was Ms. Imposter-Meg's. I have heard rumors that the said Meg resides in the dormitories, but other than that, I haven't the foggiest who she is. P.S. Yesterday I was listening to Oedipus Funk, it rocked my world.
Alisa
The page has been added, but I would invite you or anyone else to follow the link and add the shoup blog to any category you feel fit. it's exciting, I did it yesterday with Ross, then I peed myself.
Me
WRITE YOUR FUCKING PAPER
Blog
I hate you, you siren of procrastination. Damn you, damn you to hell.
posted by meg @ 1:25 PM 0 comments

Tortoise

Um, okay, so here's an idea: y'all come to DC for April 24-25. You can join the Mobilization for Global Justice demo, catch a Tortoise show ('cause they ain't gettin' any closer to you), and see me! Of course, it would involve skipping commencement, but hey, if Jenna can do that, so can you.
posted by weiss @ 6:26 PM

Well, I could be wrong, too

You know it's been a heck of a day when you get an email from Financial Aid that starts off "Sasha, we think you are graduating, but we could be wrong." In better news, the SAP photos are up and Emily Hershberger still breaks my heart.
posted by sasha @ 6:07 PM 0 comments

No shit:

"I that off-campus housing is an important part of goshen college culture, additionally, I feel that off campus housing integrates students into the community of the goshen city. We do not need a stronger campus community bubble, we need to integrate into society. Furthermore, I couln't care what happens next year, just like I don't care about the environment, I
won't be the one who has to deal with it, that's for the future generations to worry about. (maybe that's not completly true)" – Meg Schrock

Also: We should totally be in the web directory, but maybe under spirituality/urine-therapy or yoga/tantric.
posted by sasha @ 2:21 PM 0 comments

What the hell?

Hello,

I am creating a web directory, The-Insight.com, and would like to include your website Shoup.blogspot.com under the "religion/christianity/orthodox" category. If you'd like to be added, please follow this url:

http://www.the-insight.com/add.cgi

We shall put all our efforts into having your link up in less than 24 hours; and if you find our site useful for your visitors, please add a reciprocal link.

Link Back : The-Insight.com - A Spirituality Web Directory.

Thank you very much,
James T. Monaghan
webmaster
posted by meg @ 1:30 PM 0 comments

Attention Students!
It seems the myDoom virus has crept out of the server and in to our pants! since the arrival of myDoom late last week i have noticed a notable flux in the number of zippers open on myself and my fellow classmates. Damn you myDoom!
posted by kate @ 11:57 AM 0 comments

The Hebrew Hammer

It wasn't the best or funniest movie ever (Zoolander or Meet the Parents springing to mind as funnier and Lost in Translation and The Royal Tennenbaums springing to mind as better), but The Hebrew Hammer is really very funny, a good way to spend 85 minutes and seven dollars. Dude, the ticket selling guy believed I was a student even though I didn't have my ID. But I always feel weird about getting student discounts. Does being a law student count? I can still pass for an undergrad of course, but it feels dishonest.
posted by weiss @ 10:22 PM 0 comments

hmm
hmm, I think I figured it out, for some reason macs download them as and mpga, which is weird...so I told the computer it was wrong and mike was right, and that they really were mp3s, the computer agreed, but reluctantly...and finally, it changed the file to an mp3. I think the mac and I are having communication difficulties, like cool hand luke and the bad-ass guy who wasn't very nice. I'd like to think of myself as luke and not Mr. Bad-Ass, but who knows, maybe the computer was in the right. Eitherway, we resolved our conflict through tactics learned at NCOR and by reading Transforming Conflict and Violence notes that I bummed off of sasha. and again, thank you to the little green pair-shaped man that was lusting after a scarf today in our free-thinking aesthetics class today. ahh, what I wouldn't give to be a theater major. such is life, and death, and little green men.
posted by meg @ 5:26 PM 0 comments

Oedipus Media
I'm crying because I don't have an mpga player... could the webmaster of the oedipus page upload some mp3 s or some m4a s? danke
posted by meg @ 2:41 PM 0 comments

title
1>holy lord, does that mean that beth steider is an official staff write for the times of tibet?
2>meg... wow... i mean...
3>so how about the friendly virus that's been fucking it's way around our servers? yay! because of this pesky little booger i haven't received much e-mail, however, of the e-mail i have been able to get, Mr. Zac Albrecht's was the strangest i've received all year:

meet poetry in the form of flash! (you must have sound... try "dakota")

www.yhchang.com

,zac

and if you happened to be at the igloo last night you can imagine the state i was in while i was watching this
posted by kate @ 1:18 PM 0 comments

Should we be flattered?

So guess who's ripping off Record web content? Why, the Times of Tibet, of course! Straight up cut-and-paste job, right down to the byline.
posted by sasha @ 12:11 PM 0 comments

Meg Schrock Rules the world as Dopewars Champion
Yes folks, it's true, after all those years fighting for my living on the streets by selling drugs, it has finally paid off. I am now known as the 57th best 90-day drug seller IN ALL THE WORLD!!!! I RULE!!!!
(side note: I am listed twice with the same high score - I'm sneaky, I fucked the man, I hit the submit button TWICE!!! not only that, but I'm super sneaky, the first, west africa, to throw the intelligence of my trail, and the second, goshen, to claim infamous glory from my peers in northern IN. ha ha ha ha HA hA AH HAH hAHAH I RUUUUUUULLLLEEEEEE!!!!!)
(ohh, another side note: I just wanted to let you all know that I guessed my ranking as 57th and was right, how weird is that?
posted by meg @ 11:24 AM 0 comments

SAP tap:

it's so on

posted by sasha @ 9:32 AM 0 comments

john eicher:
it's "were king o-shirt-dime"
working overtime
posted by kate @ 8:58 AM 0 comments

Pittsburgh

So let Pittsburgh always be known as the city where I just run into people. Like Nate Darity. Second time in Pittsburgh with Celeste, second time running into Nate Darity. This time in an Indian restaurant that had Victory Hop Devil on tap, amazingly. Nate is studying for med school.

Then later I'm in this museum and yes, yes that is Hallie Pritts. So we walk around the museum until they kick us out and then get coffee. I ask about everyone we've ever known and Hallie tells me what's going on. She has gigs now, small ones. She's writing her own stuff. I'm impressed. She invites Celeste and I to a party later, but instead we turn in early.

And I ride both ways on the Amtrak, which is collective three and one-half hours late over the weekend. But what's the other option? Hauling out to BWI? No. And good golly did I ever get so much studying down.
posted by weiss @ 12:28 AM

Snow Cave Media
For all of you who missed the fun, frolicking and snow urinal last night, here is a link to the photos and movie. A big shout out to Kent and Brad for contributing 24 hours of digging, snow hauling and drinks. As of late this afternoon, the snow cave is still intact and a little something may be going down tonight--late.
posted by joel @ 3:45 PM 0 comments

step step step squish
so me and katie o and eric went to go walk around on the ice
it went something like this:
me: yay! i hope the ice is frozen
run run run squish
oh dear
eric: it's okay, it's probably just slushy on top and frozen underneath!
more running and squishing
maybe we should head back now
katie: continues sucking an icicle the whole way home
posted by kate @ 3:32 PM 0 comments