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It’s a special Halloween edition of Around the Ivies for the countless Ancient Eight football fans who’ll be dressing up as superheroes or vampires or zoo animals or Pokemon characters and trolling for candy this week. On the gridiron, costumes won’t fool fans any longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from...
...POKEMON...
...screamed out in pain, yelling that all of my orifices might never be whole again, and that I was about to have a seizure, just like those Japanese kids who watch Pokemon, my friend pointed me towards a wad of neon spandex...
...dialogue in some untranslatable language. Anyone familiar with the bizarre works of Jim Woodring, who specializes in creating mute, inexplicable worlds of beauty and danger, will immediately see kinship between the two authors. The book looks, at arm's length, like something for kids, with cute characters akin to Pokemon, interacting in a colorful environment. But a closer read reveals a cruel world of domination and subjugation that often involves weird forms of violence. "Why is the purple guy having his skin torn off by the orange one," may be a typically unwanted and unanswerable question for a parent. Those...
Bring a date and race in one of the many stock car games, and then gift that lucky person with one of the Pokemon-themed prizes using the tickets that are the spoils of your victory. Or, if you suck at the games, just buy the tickets from a machine specially designed for the arcade-challenged. If you came alone, that’s okay too—just chat up the cute Good Will Hunting brooding behind the prize counter...