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...Joke Shop focuses on the amusing, perverse and possibly grotesque—think cross-dressing Marilyn Monroe or Can-Can Girls. “Our slant is not fright, it’s funny,” says manager Valerie Pontbriand. While costumes such as “Hot Shit,” “Holy Shit” and “Crock of Shit” and a selection of over 10,000 accessories draw people to the shop, it is the energetic and amused attitude of its employees that keeps customers there. A place where...
...People with the vague impression that they ought to be participating in some sort of celebratory destruction were carrying traffic cones they’d stolen. There was a lot of milling around. A guy ran through the yard yelling, “Let’s go break shit!” Nobody followed him. The shouting grew ragged. There was lots of fist-pumping and inarticulate yells, including abortive attempts at a chanted “Yankees suck.” One of my roommates said, “I feel like I should be singing the score...
...what was missing on Wednesday night? Why was our celebration of our status as mostly temporary residents in Red Sox Nation somehow insufficient? I think we were primed for something more important than celebration, as we crowded Harvard Yard. The drunken guy inviting us to go break shit articulated a collective, inchoate desire for change—for some sort of change. Students cannot gather in the street, flanked by police in riot gear, without summoning up ghosts of Paris in ’68, of Tiananmen Square, of Kent State. And compared with these ghosts, we seemed awfully callow...
Ellroy wrote the book in seven months, an incredible feat for so involved and complicated a work. He wrote it quickly, he says, because the material was already inside of him. “Shit was coming out of me that I had been repressing for years,” he remarked. “It was easy...
...loving Broviet Union, the free-minded collective, the open Elegant Touch, and the serious Half Nelsons, unique in their personal and musical styles, but similar in their dedication to simultaneously being passionate and not really giving a shit. By fusing the laid-back principles of rock and roll with the intensity and intelligence of Harvard, these bands are able to create a memorable and artful musical experience, even if they won’t necessarily exist the day after tomorrow...