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...Harvard. From the Pit to Sandrine’s, Cambridge runs the gamut. One part Abercrombie & Fitch + two parts Jasmine Sola + three quarters Cardullos = well rounded college town. Each store in the square seems to fill a particular quota, and is self-conscious of its role. You, dress the frat boys; you there, feed the yuppies; and you, exist for the sole purpose of peddling to tweed-jacket clad alums come Reunion Week. Ever notice how some stores seem to stick around for no imaginable reason? Who really shops at Serendipity, anyway? Unless, of course, it?...
...Black and fellow actor/singer/guitarist Kyle Gass, flow from a similar revelation: Black and Gass set themselves up as buffoons with titles like Karate Schnitzel, then proceed to defy expectations with precise guitars, polished vocal harmonies and slamming backup musicians. Their tunes, informed by '80s hard rock, will get frat-boy fists pumping, and their boundless capacity for self-mockery makes most professional rockers look like solemn poseurs...
...office even looks like a frat house. Porno tapes line the bookshelves. Opie's desk, littered with such research material as Maxim, FHM, Stuff and Seventeen, is flanked by two Britney Spears posters. Anthony's desk, littered with a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen book, video and T shirt, sits under a poster of the twins. "Look how hot they're getting. And that's an old picture," Anthony says. On further inspection, he dismisses Mary-Kate as the priss. "Ashley is the goer...
...humor that gets laughs from discomfort. Like listening to a gay man perform oral sex on a woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer's booth: Opie twiddles his own knobs...
Sometimes they'll even pretend to listen to people outside the frat. "If a group gets p_____ off at something we're doing--say, the gay community--and a guy calls in, and he's gay and articulate and doesn't have too gay a voice, we give him an open forum," says Opie, slipping into a moment of earnestness. Then he snaps out of it. "Then we call him a f_____ and bring on the next stripper...