Top 5: People with the worst luck
Happy Friday the 13th! Getting seven years of bad luck sucks, so don’t break any mirrors or walk under any ladders (EANABS!). But if you do, at least you’ll be better off than these people. The...
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Review: ‘Touch’
Courtesy of Fox “Touch” is a show about how we’re all connected. It really, really wants you to know that. The latest brainchild of Tim Kring, the creator of “Heroes,” “Touch” treads on territory...
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TFM: Total Frat Movie
Courtesy of DreamWorks Dear Hollywood, make better college movies. Well, actually, that should be “Dear Hollywood, make better movies, period,” but we’ll settle for baby steps. Why is it that so many...
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SWL: Favorite Flicks
Courtesy of Universal Pictures It’s a Thursday night, and you have three hours to kill. First, that’s a miracle. Really, you should check that out. Second, you find yourself on Netflix craving...
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Tapping into the Chappie
Courtesy of Alex Hertz Stepping into the Chappie offices isn’t unlike setting foot into your older brother’s room. A really weird, cool older brother. In the small, square room where the Chappie...
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Five Local Restaurants as Told by Its (Fictional) Patrons
Courtesy of Camden Minervino The first part because I like food and getting off campus. The second because a list of restaurants seemed quite drab, and I happen to be in the mood for role-play....
View ArticleSWL: A Medley
Why choose just one thing to love when there are so many options? (Sidenote: that could be the motto of college kids everywhere). We decided not to choose and in the spirit of all things lists, here’s...
View ArticleDan Klein: Improviser, Inspiration
On a recent Monday morning in Drama 103: Beginning Improvisation, two students sit on stage as their classmates watch. They’ve volunteered to act out an exercise about “status.” For example, a British...
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Letter to My Freshman Self
You’re only a Stanford freshman once. Well, if you’re doing it right. In this epistolary reflection on her own freshman year, Alex Bayer doles out some advice you’ll want to note, office-hours- and...
View ArticlePublic Transportation
I went to San Francisco the other day on what was perhaps one of the busiest days of tourism of the year. So there I was, on the Caltrain, smushed in a train full of sardines, standing up, head nodding...
View ArticleMusings on the syndrome of the duck
I have gone to Stanford for exactly a year now, and my report from the field indicates that the floating duck syndrome attributed to it is not a myth as I had hoped. It is real. Very, very real. Like,...
View ArticleAdventures in food
Down goes the plate steaming with spaghetti. Grace. Someone say grace. We hold hands. We close our eyes. I eye my spaghetti. Amen. My fellow diners gracefully pluck their forks and knives in between...
View ArticleMonday morning deliveries
On Monday mornings, I deliver meals to senior citizens around the area. My route switches from week to week. Sometimes I deliver meals to the side of Menlo Park closer to campus. Sometimes it’s the...
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‘Skyfall’ breathes new life into Bond
“Skyfall” is the breath of fresh air the James Bond series needs after the dismal “Quantum of Solace.” But the movie’s originality lies not in its plot – Bond is up to his old tricks – but in the...
View ArticleDepression, Shakespeare and the Madness of a Taboo
The idea that we are all blissful at this stage of our lives is ludicrous, ludicrous. To think of all the breakups that take place, the identity-searching that is adolescence, the existential crises I...
View ArticlePursuit of Happiness
I’d like to talk a little about happiness. We’re all trying to find it, right? I am at least. It’s a trope so widely circulated that I hesitate to use it, but what the heck. You know: money won’t buy...
View ArticleWhen time stands still
Two years ago, a girl I went to middle school with passed away in a car accident. She and her boyfriend had been driving 90 miles per hour on a windy road. They were killed instantly. I found out in a...
View ArticleFor your procrastination: five good movies
Okay, I’m going to take a break from the serious fare to bring you my ULTRA-FAVORITE PASSION EVER: movies. If you happen to find yourself on a weekday night and have consciously elected to not think...
View ArticleIn defense of Hostess
I have mixed feelings about the prospect of Hostess going bankrupt and fading away. I have some good memories tied to these trans fat delights. Before I had any concept of health food, back when I ate...
View ArticleHome hunters
My favorite show (er, the one I get the most mind-numbing pleasure out of) is “House Hunters International.” Why, you ask? Well, I enjoy normal “House Hunters,” but lately they’ve been going downhill...
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