Word: weirdness
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...Because I like the way it feels," he replied. "Weird," said Zoe, who apparently went on to ask the man about a great many things. Eventually, her cross-dresser correspondent got wise to the game. "How old are you?" he asked. "Thirty," my daughter dutifully lied, recalling my admonition to never give out her real age (or any other personal details) to strangers online...
...Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying video, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970 (both issued by Blast Books...
...communiqués range from the polite to the weird, the innocent to the disturbed. And, almost always the writer is male. Most of the letters seem harmless enough, but the personal descriptions do nothing to mask the perverted professions of love. "I'd like to correspond and find out what interesting stories you have to tell about your adventures," wrote Brian, a 22 year-old UMass-Amherst student and a self-described...
Exclusive Advocate parties, or "weird Advo love" as the Lampoon lovingly refers to them, may now be the only way for non-snobs to boogie in their building. With slick wood floors and a perfect bar set-up, the Advocate house was once a prime venue for other groups to rent. Last fall however, Advocate Publisher John M. DeStefano '01 sent an ominous message to Pfoho Open, the campus repository of usually useless information, stating that the Advocate was no longer available for future fêtes. Inquiries into the Advocate's policy change led to conflicting tales concerning...
Linux used to be the alternative: the funky, weird free operating system that grew up on the fringes of the commercial software world, something that hackers and programmers played with in their spare time. No longer: Linux is now big business ? huge business, in fact, now that publicly held Linux companies like Red Hat and VA Linux measure their market caps in the billions. Will Linux lose its soul...