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(04/12/11 7:20am)
I miss being a kid. The simple things were the ones that mattered: family, friends, and of course Barbies. No one cared about summer internships or Wall Street jobs. A friend eating the last Popsicle in the freezer seemed like the worst thing that could possibly happen. As college students, more of us are starting to reclaim that childish spirit. I am sure that I am not the only person on this campus who has gone to Target solely to play with toys and buy Play-doh.
(04/05/11 9:26am)
We are programmed to be obsessed with secrets. Big ones, small ones—we love them all. Sometimes, we even create our own secrets just to share them. In our childhood, the biggest secrets are those that are unsolved. Does he have cooties? Are there monsters under our beds? These secrets fueled our desire to form alliances and helped us become socialized.
(03/29/11 5:00pm)
BSAI, Duke’s Black Student Alliance Invitational, has come and gone like a tornado, leaving a path of destruction. Some events from this weekend have already become common knowledge, while others remained locked in the chamber of secrets. One of the unofficial mottos for BSAI was to be as “ratchet” as possible. “Ratchet” is a term used to mean ridiculous, wild, and out of control. “Ratchet” is an adjective but it can be used as a noun (“ratchetivity,” “ratchetness”) and even has a Spanish counterpart (“ratchetamente”). The idea that we have waited all year to be “ratchet” has spawned a twitter account and a blog, both titled “Championship Week.” But, when did it become OK to be “ratchet”?
(03/23/11 3:03am)
It’s time to get serious. Last week, I submitted a blog post about National Lemme Smang It day. I joked about a made-up holiday with a small but passionate following—my editor was not pleased. She thought the word “smang”, a combination of the words “smash” and “bang” popularized by Yung Humma and Flynt Flossy, represents female objectification. With that, I disagree.
(03/15/11 9:00am)
Lady Gaga is one of my favorite artists. In honor of the debut of her new video, “Born This Way,” I will discuss the top five Lady Gaga songs.
(02/23/11 11:29am)
Last week, I did not have a blog post. I was extremely sad to disappoint my poor reader (thanks, Mom!), but I was too sick to make it to class, much less be funny.
(02/08/11 10:20pm)
Relationships are like art--you try to understand what the hell you are up against before you finally give up trying. It takes somebody with a glass of wine and wit like a 37-year-old British movie critic to tell you what is wrong.
(02/01/11 10:23pm)
Ski Gloves: $78
(01/25/11 8:00pm)
Hulu is a great website—no one can really say that they don’t like Hulu.
(09/10/10 11:53pm)
Happy Days was anything but.
(07/01/11 8:00am)
The satisfying summer movie-going experience may be ruined this year with Warner Brothers’ release of Green Lantern.
(12/02/10 1:02pm)
Perhaps it’s her larger-than-life personality that fans have grown to expect from the self-proclaimed Barbie. It could be the exhilarated rapping that led Rolling Stone to dub her the new queen of hip-hop. Whatever the case is, Nicki Minaj seems to appeal to everyone.
(10/21/10 9:00am)
I am not ashamed to admit it: Toy Story 3 made me cry. For all of you robots out there, the end of the movie meant more to me than (spoiler alert!) Andy giving up Woody for frat parties and free beer; the end of the movie felt like the end of my childhood.
(09/23/10 8:00am)
John Hughes would be proud: Easy A both subtly and obviously resembles his Brat Pack movies of the 1980s. Emma Stone, often remembered as the love interest of Jonah Hill in Superbad, plays the pretty but overlooked Olive Penderghast. Her life reads like the typical Hughes character: she is attractive but is too into her studies to be popular, though she secretly wishes she were noticed.
(03/31/10 8:00am)
Forget the blowouts Duke had been racking up lately—the Blue Devils barely outlasted Brown in an 11-10 thriller at Koskinen Stadium Tuesday.
(03/22/10 8:00am)
Duke collected an easy victory with a 19-10 win over Navy at Koskinen Stadium Sunday on the strength of an outstanding first half offensively.
