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Three Fridays ago I marched toward Sever Hall with the simple goal of registering for class. With my number two pencil in hand, I entered the Yard, said my faux-friendly hellos to unidentifiable acquaintances and stared at the hot young things (freshmen) sunbathing in front of their dorms. Before I could register, however, I had to overcome one daunting obstacle: the dreaded activities fair. Rather than succumbing to toothy smiles and offers of cheap candy, I decided to withhold my e-mail address and to avoid awkward social contact at all costs. I pulled from my pocket the stark...
Bottles of Cristal, faux heirs, and spending the night in jail are things made for rap videos. Sipping rose martinis among Parisian fashionistas at the uber-chic bar at the Plaza Atheneé is more my style. Nonetheless, in the past week, I have experienced both with only residual scarring...
Bottles of Cristal, faux heirs, and spending the night in jail are things made for rap videos. Sipping rose martinis among Parisian fashionistas at the uber-chic bar at the Plaza Atheneé is more my style. Nonetheless, in the past week, I have experienced both with only residual scarring...
...entirely predictable. They said Bush was a regular guy and Kerry seemed aloof. They said they wanted more specifics from the candidates and more high-minded coverage from the media, but the information they possessed seemed to come mostly from negative ads. It was synthetic conversation--the kind of faux intimacy common to reality-TV shows--and yet I sensed some frustration among the participants. They were looking for a quality in the candidates they couldn't quite describe...
...there it is. After nearly a half-hour of spouting pop philosophy, quoting Outkast lyrics (“shake it like a Polaroid picture,” he hums at one point) and waxing faux-political, Russell has finally come clean. The secret behind the tangled existential web of Huckabees is that there is no secret—it makes the director laugh, and that’s good enough...