Posts Tagged with "Yale"

Newsbreaks for Tuesday

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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Audio version is here. I went to school in New Haven. This is what everybody who went to Yale says. They’re just begging you to ask them for more information. Then when you finally pry it out of them, they mumble, “Oh, Yale.” Like “perhaps you’ve heard of it…It’s not much, but we like it.” [...]

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Rasputin Bigbodie

Thursday, February 1, 2007

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I’ve been spending a lot of time over at Rasputin Bigbodie, The Yale Record’s alumni blog. Come visit, you might like it.

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People ask me questions, stuff like…

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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“So, Mike, why the hell don’t you post to your blog anymore? I mean, understand we never enjoy it that much, but since most of us have actual real jobs and all you do is sit around tapping away at that smudgy eMac of yours (often in your boxer shorts, don’t ask us how we [...]

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Nice appreciation of GWS Trow in Slate

Friday, December 8, 2006

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Stephen Metcalfe sums up writer George W.S. Trow and his major work, Within the Context of No Context. It’s a reasonably good read for people interested in such things. The scion of a prosperous New York printing family, Trow was a prime mover in the revivication that turned the Harvard Lampoon from a snotty finals-club [...]

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Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

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Fantastic news!

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

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So I’ve spent the last decade or so trying to nudge the nascent humorists at The Yale Record in the right direction. And together, we have significantly increased the whimsy of America’s lawyers and management consultants. In retrospect, they probably would’ve gotten more out of sticking their heads in a bucket. At least that’s restful. [...]

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Dude, don’t bogart the "misconception"

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

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The Yale Daily News rips the lid off of hookah use in this article.

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CollegeHumor.com in the NYer

Thursday, January 20, 2005

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Friend Mollie Wilson pointed me to a Talk of the Town mini-profile of the guys behind the website CollegeHumor.com, or as I like to call it, www.what-I’d-be-doing-if-I’d-been-born-ten-years-later.com. Though it’s marred by a slightly snarky tone, any article that mentions The Yale Record can’t be all bad. Speaking of funny films on the outer edge of [...]

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Barry Trotter in The Sun!

Saturday, June 12, 2004

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Yesterday my tiny world was rocked by a great article about Barry Trotter in The Sun. Our friend Elaine told Kate that it was next to a page full of breasts, which is only appropriate. My friend Dave Etkin wrote this in response: “Dear Mike, I am compelled to inform you that I am writing [...]

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School loans, Spalding Gray, and Skull and Bones

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

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As I burst a blood vessel trying to finish Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse, I thought I’d pass along a few interesting links. The first is a neat essay about meeting Spalding Gray. The next is Generation Debt, the Voice’s cover story on how rapacious tuition, dwindling school loans, unprincipled credit card companies, expensive [...]

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