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...consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn of Frédéric Chopin's ladybug obsession, Maine's state motto ("Remember the Maine!") and the Depression-era rebellion that resulted in Hobo Joe Junkpan's brief appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. In Hodgman's authoritative prose and hyperrational voice, the joke is that erudition can be a form of madness and that facts are just lies in tweed jackets...
...Let’s Get It On” doesn’t leave much room for interpretation 2) Smoke signals (warning: don’t let HUPD see the smoke out the window) 3) Carrier pigeons 4) Telegram stop meet you at J. Harvard statue stop 5) Hobo couriers 6) txt msg (especially convenient for the wireless-less Sanders Theater) 7) Telepathy 8) Semaphore, although this would be awkward in section 9) gmail (you might not want to use your account “sexyslut@gmail.com” to submit your response paper to your Lit TF) 10) Just...
...little more artistic liberty, equality, and fraternity. —Bernard L. Parham"Hell Yes"BeckIt’s a heartening sign that Beck can upstage his own robots.Dude always gets hella flak from haters who say that his lyrics sound like they came out of some computerized random hobo lyric generator. People also rightfully cry foul for his played-out “do the Robot like it’s 1983!” dance routine. But in the video for this oft-maligned “Guero” track (not to be confused with the video...
...that era's classic forms, the road movie. And then, in effect, reimagines it. Here the road movie's traditional protagonist, the wayfarer whose only resources are wit and courage, is transformed into a young girl. Enchantingly played by Meredith Salenger, 14, Natty is obviously more imperiled by the hobo life than a man would be. And her gumption flatters without fawning upon the modern young woman's sense of her sex's expanded capabilities...
...Sighted on Fox last Sunday night: Darius Rucker and a bevy of models on a boxcar hawking Burger King with a hamburger-themed rendition of hobo anthem “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” Hmm, let’s see: Fast-food chains exploiting Depression-era poverty for commercial purposes while Bush tries to roll back Social Security. Coincidence...