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Ever heard of the movie The Endless Summer? This is Robert August, the surfing god. Funny that I met him on the day I learned how to surf.
In my head, I planned a lengthy post in response to this article. It would have been great; full of factual disputes, quotations, links, etc. I called my editor (me) and reserved 6+ paragraphs for the piece.
Then I learned that christwire.org is a satirical website.
Enter: [...]
I had just returned from the library from an eight hour studying marathon (finals are great, aren’t they) when I turned on the television and heard that President Obama would make an impromptu statement regarding national security. I then did what any generation-googler would do, and turned to the interwebs. On the Huffington Post, someone [...]
In Defense of Offensive Art is an interesting article from The Awl. It caught my eye because the tag line mentioned a rap group that I find pretty interesting, Odd Future. The article aims to explore the reasons for art that is obscene and why people listen to songs [...]
I was reading The Guardian’s Ten rules for writing fiction the other day and came across Roddy Doyle’s first rule: 1 Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
I laughed derisively. What kind of creep [...]
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to see world renown anthropologist and primatologist (chimp-ologist?) Jane Goodall deliver a speech. It was part of this year’s Distinguished Speaker Series at Penn State University. I didn’t know much about her going into it, but after a quick browsing of [...]
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