Word: absurdity
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...That’s absurd,” Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe at the time. “Without informing anyone or telling anybody? That’s total arrogance...
...Mack White, for example, creates a penny-dreadful-style comic of text and illustration that spins an absurd story combining Christian mythology, spiritualism, and Jane Eyre-style melodramatics. "That night, after drinking a special tea laced with laudanum and other substances, Paulina lay down to await the Archangel Michael. ... Soon, Dexter appeared in a hooded robe." Many of the artists see no reason use verisimilitude or even be particularly sexy. Ben Catmull's "Howard," shows a chubby guy who gets embarrassed that his bathtub fantasies keep devolving into strange penile animals. "Splish Splosh" are the only sounds in the cutely...
Even when I was off duty, I couldn’t help but stumble into the realm of the absurd. One time I found myself shin-deep in water at a pool party in Lowell House (the absence of a pool made it more interesting than it sounds). On a date, an applied math concentrator proudly informed me that he was “pre-money.” Neil Rudenstine ate me twice—in a comic strip. I became the second Jewish member of the Filipino Dance Troupe. I took part in a voodoo ritual...
...only question is this: Why stop with Harvard athletes? Even agents have been immortalized in absurd movies and HBO appearances. There’s a lot of money to be made in a dramatized account of a college sportswriter’s already-thrilling existence...
...addition, tempting though it may be, I’ll spare everyone a laundry list of parting zingers, directed at the various groups and people who have made Harvard such a fascinating and absurd place to write about. The list is too long anyway to do them any kind of justice—so I will just say hail and farewell to (among others) the PSLM, the BGLTSA, the editorial board of this fine paper, everyone at Tufts, Neil Rudenstine, Cornel West and yes, poor Suzanne Pomey. Without these fine people and their antics, I might have been reduced...