Word: chickening
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...shows and emerging trends of next fall's schedule. (Or schedules. Still facing the possibility of an actors' strike by fall, the networks may have to keep backup skeds of reality shows under glass.) This week, I will endure the upfronts for you - the hubris! the speeches! the little chicken kabobs! - and give you the rundown on what fresh hell the networks have in store for us, complete with entirely unfair and probably incorrect snap judgments based on the few minutes of selected clips the networks screen for the crowd. A few things we'll be looking...
...salivated over my chicken parm and chatted it up with my English professor, I sadly realized how unnatural and infrequent this type of interaction is at Harvard. For many of us, the arranged dinner will probably be the only experience of this nature for the entire first year. I understand that many students are not interested in more informal interaction with their professors. Nonetheless, for those who seek more time with the faculty, Harvard may be a bit frustrating...
...first time, the initiation ceremony of Skull and Bones--Yale's 169-year-old secret society whose members include George W. Bush and his father. Just days later and a few blocks away, I was employing far more extreme tactics to infiltrate an even more cloaked society. Porn n' Chicken, which has been around since 1996 and meets once a month to eat Popeyes and watch porn flicks, became Yale's most infamous organization this year when it began shooting a student-acted adult film, The StaXXX, which includes a nude scene shot inside the Skull and Bones headquarters. Though...
...dozen P n' C initiates, chosen by the "Tri-Colored Council," handed "the man in the orange cap" porn magazines with their name and e-mail address written inside. In return he gave them an "envelope" containing the secret P n' C greeting, which I will now divulge. Chicken 1, quoting the inscription on Man Ray's gravestone, says, "We are unconcerned but not indifferent." Chicken 2 replies, "For five dollars, I will give you the reach around." I also discovered that their "crest" is a chicken being choked. I also learned that quote marks make everything all mysterious...
...basically a game of chicken and the question is who's going to blink first," Bordone says...