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VOL9 NO44
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
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FALL BREAK AT HOME
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So your parents don’t bore you to death
TURKEY TAKE OUT
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CU Restaurants in the giving spirit
WEDNESDAY $3 20 oz Mug Refills of Draft Beer & Mixed Drinks!
ZOMBIFICATION
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Interview with Max Brooks, author of World War Z
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The beginning of the words your mom hates
FACULTY SHOWCASE 8 ON READBUZZ.COM COMMUNITY What’s with the head tilted, leg popped sorority pose girls keep doing in pictures? Find out in Avani’s around town column, online this Saturday!
FOOD & DRINK It is possible to eat smart while eating late, and Melanie tells you how! Look for her column, “Late Night Bite,” online Saturday.
MUSIC Don’t think you have a place in punk? Go online this week to see our punk playlist and explore the diverse genre that is sure to have the habitat for you.
MOVIES & TV Check out all our neato columns online this week. Do you like foreign films? We have those! How about crime? They’re there, too! GO LOOK!
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EDITOR’S NOTE DYLAN SUTCLIFF
I’ve been 21 for about five days now, and I must say it’s not too different. I realized that I can now go to more shows in Chicago, and that’s pretty cool. No more will I experience instants of excitement quickly followed by bitter disappointment upon seeing the 21+ signifier. The actual night of my birthday went as follows: Golden Harbor (the BEST Chinese food in town —go now) followed by Blind Pig in Champaign, then Murphy’s. By the time Murphy’s came around, I was already pretty sloshed; however, I am not offered free drinks often, so it wasn’t long before I was absolutely ridiculous. The night ended with me puking on someone else’s bedroom floor after downing 60 gulps of water. I still contend that had I not made the horrible move of filling my stomach with so much water I would have been fine. It was especially bad because not minutes before I was bragging about my excessive chugging. Idiot. The best part of my birthday came three days later when my parents came down to visit and gifted me the cutest kitten in the world. I have written about the adventures of my cats Calvin and Hobbes that regrettably live in Yorkville, but now that I have Foucault (rhymes with ‘you know,’ via my ENGL 301 teacher Bob Parker), the hole in my being reserved for kitties is filled. As I type this out, Foucault is next to me attempting to pull my hand away from the keyboard to play. She’s four months old and is the perfect combination of loving and playful. One second she’ll be pouncing from beneath a chair to attack the feet of a passerby, and the next she’s ready to snuggle up for a nap. She’s kind of the best. As Uncle Ben says: ‘With great power comes great responsibility’; I’m not sure if this is exactly why my parents gave me a kitty for my 21st, but I know that Foucault has nothing to fear. I may have flipped a car less than a month ago, puked from an overabundance of alcohol last Thursday and read comic books near the point of calling it a religion; but this cat can count on being well fed and loved until the end.
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Here it is. Our moment. The beginning of the end. The first of two films adapted from the final book of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, comes to theaters this Friday, and every American (girl) is on the edge of his or (probably) her chair anticipating its release. Or not. By many accounts, expectations for the artistic achievements of the second-to-last Twilight film aren’t set particularly high. Previous films in the series have often been challenged by critics for their confusing plotting and over-the-top romantic scenes. However, the final two films will be directed by Bill Condon, director of Chicago and Academy Awardwinning writer of Gods and Monsters, so there is some hope that this latest installment of the franchise will aspire to greater heights. But when all is said and done, it doesn’t matter much how good the movie is. If you want to see it, you know you’ll be seeing it. Millions of Twilight fans worldwide will line up at theaters on Friday no matter what the critics say. And if you like vampires, werewolves, romance or sex — and this one promises to have a lot of sex — you just might want to check it out, too.
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» Grapefruit: I eat it at least once a day. I took pictures of grapefruit. I took a video of kids eating grapefruit. I drink grapefruit juice. Apparently, I really like it. It’s so sour and juicy! » Sitting in the dark: Creepy, right? But really, it’s fun! The other day, I was lying on my bed editing photos. Two hours later, I looked up and realized it was pitch black in my room and apartment. I was completely alone, absorbed in my Photoshop and music playing in the background. What a day! If you’ve never sat by yourself for hours on end in complete darkness, you should try it. You may not make any friends, but who needs ‘em? » Boyfriends: When boys aren’t being dumb and icky, they can be pretty cool, I guess. Sometimes, boyfriends are nice! They buy you food and walk you home when it’s dark. Sometimes, they even hold your hand! Kisses are nice, too. » Linkin Park: These guys bring me back to middle school. They’re so angsty! How fun! When I’m feeling hardcore and angry, I blast some LP. I’ve become so numb! I’m crawling in my skin, and I can’t rely on myself. I’ve got a heart full of pain and a hand ful of stress, but nobody’s listening. After listening to Linkin Park, I realize that I’m by myself, and it’s easier to run.
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» Lag: Whoever said that “everything tastes better when it’s free” was lying. Free Internet is not tasty; lag is not tasty. When I do have the free time to finally play video games, it’s not even relieving because the Internet connection is so horrible that I want to die. Even when I steal my neighbor’s Internet, it’s bad. I WILL NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN. » Not having Skyrim: I told myself months ago that I would get this game the second it was available, but I forgot that I go to school and that I have no time to do anything I enjoy. Plus, I hardly have enough time to play Arkham City and Modern Warfare 3, so adding a third game to the works just isn’t an option. I walked past the line for the midnight release and was almost in tears. Such lucky folk! So, until I get this game, I’m going to be sad and angry and all other kinds of discontent. » Tuesdays: Talk about the worst day of the week. Nothing could make this day better. Even if I received a very personal basket of cookies and puppies every Tuesday, I would still hate it. I have nothing else to say on the subject. Just know that I gripe the shit out of Tuesdays. buzz
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if stalls could talk
Secrets are spilled and advice doled out through latrinalia
by Jessica Bourque
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ill Coyne’s boots clomp as he walks across the creaking floors of Davenport Hall. He’s here every night after all the students have long gone, sweeping the floors, wiping the windows and cleaning the bathrooms. I find him with a broom in hand and headphones blaring. Surely, if anyone knows where to find some interesting bathroom graffiti, it’s this guy. I tell him I’m doing a story on latrinalia, or bathroom graffiti. “You wouldn’t happen to know of any stalls I could check out, do you?” I ask. His eyes light up, and a smile sweeps across his face. “Well, shoot! It’s a shame you didn’t do this a little earlier! I just painted over a stall that was full of stuff,” he says, adding that the messages can get inappropriate and need to be stifled with paint. Still, I can sense his regret in having had to get rid of them. Coyne loves the graffiti. As a building services worker, he has gotten well-acquainted with the black scribbles that adorn the stalls of Davenport Hall. “I love to go back and reread things. You feel like you get to know these people on an emotional level even though it’s just a wall,” said Coyne. He recalls a memorable message he found on the second floor bathroom that read, “He left me and I don’t know what to do.” “I couldn’t believe all the responses she got. So many other women commented back with their support,” said Coyne, who claimed that the women’s bathrooms tend to convey very emotive messages.
Coyne then directed me to a particular stall that he favors: second floor women’s bathroom, last stall on the right. When I walk in, I’m disappointed. Clearly it was painted over. Only a few messages sprinkle the garish white walls, one of which shares my frustration – “It’s a shame they had to paint over this,” it reads. But then I see something — a message at the very top of the stall, messily scrawled in black pen that is surrounded by responses. “Confession: I’m bulimic and come purge in here because it’s always empty. I just want to be pretty.” My stomach dropped. Who is this girl? Was this written after “purging” today’s lunch? Is this a cry for help? It was an incredibly private thing for someone to divulge, but as I moved from building to building, investigating every bathroom, I realized that she wasn’t the only one spewing secrets onto the stall. Opinions, frustrations, witticisms, insecurities, inspirations, insights — you can find them all manifested in this campus’s bathrooms. “I don’t want to be a librarian anymore… I want to drop out and open a bakery,” and “I am having the hardest time figuring out what grad school to go to. Help!” were just a few of the more personal ones I found. These emotional, reflective messages were neatly juxtaposed with witty banter, silly poems and uplifting quotes. I even saw a carefully drawn Sudoku tournament play out in a stall at the Music Building. I began to realize that these stalls serve more
than just the call of nature. Inside those four walls, you are anonymous — nothing more than marker on a wall — and with anonymity comes a kind of autonomy. You are free from judgment, blame and guilt, and your voice is heard nonetheless. But anonymity can’t be the only motivation behind the latrinalia phenomenon. To help learn more about what compels people, I went straight to the source: the stall. I posted a few messages of my own, 25 to be exact, in different bathrooms across campus and asked the same question, “Why do people write on bathroom stalls?” Many of the replies were proponents of anonymity, fewer were snarky comebacks, but there were a handful that caught my attention. One girl wrote “We can’t talk to everyone on campus, share our thoughts or inspire them. So why not write it in a common place?” It’s interesting to view a bathroom as a forum for meaningful discussion, but I think she is absolutely right. What’s even more fascinating is that public spaces have served this function for cen-
turies. Even in the days of Pompeii, you could find animated, expressive graffiti disguising the walls. For some people, writing on these stalls can be therapeutic — “Because sometimes these walls are the only ones that listen,” replied one girl. I thought about the unidentified girl’s bulimia confession. She probably comes back daily to read the responses. Maybe it really was a cry for help. With that in mind, I walk back to the stall, take out a pen and write down “217-333-3704 — this is the number to the UIUC counseling center. I hope you find the strength to get the help you need.” Over 40,000 students walk this campus, and nearly all of them are anonymous to me. This girl could be in one of my classes — she could even be one of my TAs — but I’ll always know her as “bathroom stall girl.” Regardless of her identity, she is a person reaching out — reaching out to me, to Bill Coyne and to every other person who uses that last stall on the right. We are all connected, even if only through a bathroom stall. *Continue to page 11 for more photos
CU Sound off What is the strangest thing you carry in your backpack? “Define strange,” I had people tell me. I replied, “Anything you carry in your backpack on a daily basis that isn’t school related.” A number pulled out some type of food or food accessory and
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asked if it was strange enough. Some dug in and found calculators, “cool” pens and hair ties, but none of them qualified as weird enough. I was surprised by how many didn’t carry little trinkets
by Karolina Zapal or just really old stuff. Smelly socks? A wig? A letter from home? The people I asked felt genuinely bad for not having strange backpack items, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they went back to their
dorms and stocked up on slimy, gross, pretty, cool, weird keepsakes. Luckily, a few came through and had some strange items to share:
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fall break
How to spend your week of freedom
by Hannah Pitstick
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he time has come at last. After weeks of staying up late, studying for exams and rushing to finish class projects, you find yourself with an entire week’s worth of free time. You may be in a state of shock for the first couple of days. That’s normal. If you’re having trouble deciding what to do with yourself this break, here’s a list of suggestions on how to take advantage of your newfound freedom.
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» Sleep. For days. » Get up late, but not so late that you miss the morning cartoons. As you eat your cereal in front of the TV, be sure not to think about finals, job applications or your future in general. » Re-connect with your childhood room. If you’re parents haven’t converted it into a spare room/ man cave yet, it should be a pristine time capsule of gel pens and angsty high school memories. » Read books! After catching up with all of your neglected classwork, read fun books. Here’s an idea: snuggle up with a cat in your child-sized bed and read an Agatha Christie novel, such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. » Watch a trilogy or an entire season of a television show. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is equally epic the 14th time around, I hear.
» Stay up all night. Not because you have to finish a paper, but because you can. You are a responsible adult now — you have no bedtime. » That being said, feel free to revert to your pre-collegiate state of helplessness. Eat multiple servings of all meals placed in front of you by that goddess known as your mother, forget to clean up after yourself and leave your dirty laundry for the laundry fairy. » Take a bath with bubbles and candles and stuff. Play some soothing tunes: I’d suggest Fleet Foxes or James Taylor. » If you’ve recently turned 21, check out those previously off-limits establishments around town. » Celebrate Black Wednesday, and try not to fall asleep in front of your entire extended family the next day. » Celebrate Black Friday. Camp outside Walmart in the bitter cold for a chance to get your very own Play Doh Fun Factory Mega Set for just $10! » Be completely and utterly worthless. Shroud thyself in a Snuggie and watch hours of daytime television. » Catch up with old high school classmates. See who’s changed, who’s on drugs, who has a kid, etc. » Have a dance party by yourself in your room. I don’t know about you, but my room back home is much better suited for this kind of behavior.
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» Create something. Experiment with clay, make a collage, paint a picture or take photographs. Don’t worry whether what you make is any good. Just get lost in the process. » Go to your neighborhood playground or the one at your old elementary school and swing, go down
the slide and get sick on the merry-go-round. » Watch the news; find out what’s going on outside of the University of Illinois microcosm. » Start brainstorming Christmas gift ideas. It’s never too early! Also, be sure to leave a wish list of everything you desire lying around the house.
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Turkey day Desserts
What would the year’s best dinner be without dessert?
by Annalisa Rodriguez & Jordan Ramos
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he Thanksgiving Day meal is perhaps the most anticipated food of the year. The meal is obviously wonderful all on its own, but it tastes just a bit sweeter to all of the college students who have either been living on dorm food for a few months now or sliding by with pizza and mac ‘n cheese. This is real food, for once! Now, be sure to fill yourself up with turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberries, but leave a little room for dessert; these pies will be sure to make your evening even sweeter. Caramel Pecan Pie » 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust » 36 individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped » 1/4 cup butter » 1/4 cup milk » 3/4 cup white sugar » 3 eggs » 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract » 1/4 teaspoon salt » 1 1/4 cup pecan halves Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On the stovetop over low heat, combine caramels, butter and milk in a small saucepan, stirring frequently until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside. Combine eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt in a large bowl. Slowly mix in the caramel mixture so the eggs don’t scramble, then add the pecans. Pour mixture into pie crust.
Bake for 45 minutes, or until edge of crust is golden brown. Cool before eating.
Bread pudding apple pie
Easy Sweet Potato Pie » 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust » 2 1/2 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes » 1 cup sugar » 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon » 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg » 2 ounces butter or margarine, melted » 1/2 teaspoon salt » 3 eggs » 1/4 cup milk
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll out pastry and place into a 9-inch pie pan. Mix sweet potatoes, sugar, spices, salt and butter in a medium-sized bowl. Beat in eggs and milk. Pour filling into pan. Bake for 1 hour, until a pick inserted halfway between edge and center comes out clean. Cool slightly on rack. Cut into wedges and top with whipped cream, if desired.
In another bowl, stir 1/4 cup brown sugar and flour. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle on top of pie filling. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until top is golden and fruit is tender. Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake
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» 3 eggs » 1 cup applesauce »1/2 cup vanilla fat-free yogurt » 1/2 cup white sugar » 1/2 cup brown sugar » 1/2 cup rolled oats » 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon » 3 cups bread cubes » 2 apples — peeled, cored and chopped » 1/4 cup brown sugar » 1/4 cup all-purpose flour » 2 tablespoons butter » 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together eggs, applesauce, yogurt, white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, oats and cinnamon. Stir in bread and apples. Pour into pie crust.
» 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened » 1/2 cup white sugar » 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract » 2 eggs » 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust » 1/2 cup pumpkin puree » 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon » 1 pinch ground cloves » 1 pinch ground nutmeg » 1/2 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Blend in eggs one at a time. Remove 1 cup of batter and spread into bottom of crust; set aside. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to the remaining batter and stir gently until well blended. Carefully spread over the batter in the crust. Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until center is almost set. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Cover with whipped topping before serving.
Thanksgiving on the go Enjoy the feast without the work! by Melanie Kuta & Lauren Lehocky So, it’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving: a holiday not only to celebrate a week off from school but also to enjoy the most celebrated holiday centered on tasty food. As a student, it can sometimes be difficult to be away from home with the holidays right around the corner. A family meal is one tradition that you can’t bring with you to college. So whether you’re looking to be sentimental or just craving your favorite Thanksgiving staple, you are in luck. Your home away from home, good ol’ ChampaignUrbana, offers a variety of the Thanksgiving classics in various local restaurants. As the star of the show, our “on the go” Thanksgiving meal would not be able to exist without turkey. Although there are several places that offer some form of turkey, the two with the most unique twists are Seven Saints, located in downtown Champaign, and Crane Alley, in downtown Urbana. Seven Saints is famous for their gourmet sliders, so of course they have a gourmet turkey slider. Crane Alley offers a turkey burger served with fresh avocado and roasted bell peppers on a toasted bun. To dig in on the sides, green beans are a must. Your Grandma’s green bean casserole just got a whole lot simpler. One stop on 6
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campus to get your fill of these green veggies is the Bevier Café. It is a student-run restaurant sponsored by the College of ACES, which means it offers tasty food for less. Another Thanksgiving favorite is cranberries. However, to mix it up, a cranberry-inspired drink would be a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving festivities on the go. For those of you over drinking age, Boltini lounge offers a spin on the typical cranberry juice cocktail. Their Red Lotus is simple yet elegant with Lychee liqueur, Absolut vodka, fresh squeezed lime juice and cranberry juice. After one of these, you will definitely be put into the spirit of the holidays. But what would Thanksgiving be without a little starch? If you want to put a greasy, college spin on classic sweet potatoes, look no further than the sweet potato fries at the Courier Café. The waiters push them on you like they’re gold, and they do not disappoint. For fancier fare, Jim Gould is always a good go-to in Champaign, but they are also home to a classic Thanksgiving favorite: mashed potatoes. These aren’t just your mom’s secret recipe, aka microwave instant mashed potatoes with some
butter on top; these are fluffy, angelic Yukon Gold whipped potatoes. Close your eyes, take a bite and you’ll swear you’re sitting around the Thanksgiving table. And for the final touch, you can pick up a delicious pumpkin or pecan pie at Curtis Orchard. Now, if bits and pieces of the meal just won’t cut it, Milo’s restaurant in Urbana hosts a full Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, November 24 from 12-8 p.m., complete with options Photo of green bean casserole. Used with permission from Kevin Dooley and the Creative Commons like butternut squash ravioli, roast turkey with cornbread stuffing and if you’re craving a little bit of your favorite holiday cranberry sauce, and warm apple crisp. meal, it’s nice to know that our campus town ofThanksgiving isn’t every day. And thank God it fers many delightful dishes that fit the holiday isn’t, or skinny jeans would become obsolete. But bill until you can make it home for the holidays.
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FLESH-EATING HORDES OF MADNESS Max Brooks explains zombie popularity, Shaun of the Dead and tween paranormal romance
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»buzz: I know you’re a big Studs Terkel fan since World War Z is inspired by Terkel’s oral history of WWII. I also love Terkel, but my favorite book is Working. With that book in mind: “What do you call your job, what do you do all day, and how do you feel about it?” Max Brooks: I’m a writer. I’ve been a writer since I was 12; I’ll be a writer until I die. And that’s it. That’s all it is. There’s nothing cool or exciting or pretentious about it. I’m just a guy who writes down what he thinks about. I don’t feel one way or another about it. It’s not a choice — it’s what I am. I didn’t have a moment where I was like, ‘I’m gonna be a writer.’ I didn’t choose writing; writing chose me: this is what I am. Since I sat down and wrote my first short story, the world stopped. I literally looked up, and it was three days later, and I had a three-page short story. I remember thinking, ‘I think this is what I’m supposed to be.’ » buzz: Do you remember that first three-page story? MB: Yeah, I still have it. It was about me and my friends in Europe in the 80s (obviously, because it was written in the eighties), getting into an ATeam-esque kind of battle with Neo-Nazis in the catacombs outside Rome. » buzz: What role would writing and texts play in the apocalypse? MB: I think they’d be hugely important. It’s an art form that doesn’t require batteries. When the power goes out, you’re going to need people scratching on tablets to keep words alive. I always think it’s funny to see how many people have downloaded The Zombie Survival Guide as an e-book. At least the paperback version doesn’t break. » buzz: How old are zombies? They date back to African myths, correct? MB: Well, I always say zombies are the new jazz. Jazz is the only unique American music — all the other music we have is bastardized in Europe. The same thing is true of monsters, as well. They came from somewhere else, mainly Europe. Vampires, werewolves, mummies (well, that’s Egyptian, via Europe). But then George Romero created the uniquely American monster phenomena. So it came from Africa, but in a very different art form — like jazz. Jazz started as African music
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and rhythms, then morphed through the American south into what we call jazz. Same thing with zombies. Zombies used to be African voodoo — witchdoctor raises someone from the dead as a slave zombie. The original zombies weren’t flesh eating hordes. They were somebody hit with zombie powder, then they died, then you dug them up and made them do chores. George Romero turned it into an apocalyptic threat, a flesh-eating threat, a viral threat, an uncontrollable threat. George Romero rewrote the book just like the jazz greats did with American music. » buzz: Why do you think zombie narratives resurged so strongly in the last decade? MB: I think Zombie 2.0 started because people were like, ‘Wow, the fucking system is breaking down.’ That’s what I was trying to do with World War Z. People had disaster on the brain because we kept getting hammered, one after another. People are really using zombies in interesting ways to examine societal collapse. Now, I think we’re in Zombie 2.5. Zombie 2.0 came about in 2002-3: 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, the remake of Dawn of the Dead, The Walking Dead comic, and The Zombie Survival Guide started a zombie Renaissance that started to snowball. Zombie 2.5 are the people picking up on Zombie 2.0 — the people picking up on that ... The first wave was the sixties and seventies. Romero and the Italians and some Japanese guys — stuff like that. In 2.5, people are taking the genre even farther and doing even cooler things with it. Daniel Dresner (ed. note: U. of Chicago Political Science prof.) wrote a book called Theories of International Politics and Zombies examining foreign relations through zombie crisis...Dr. Steve Schlozman is a neurologist at Harvard trying to go really deep into the science of zombies with The Zombie Autopsies. ...I think Shaun of the Dead is one of the best zombie movies ever made ... and it’s a lot deeper than it seems. It’s funny, but the dude shoots his own mother — that’s intense. It’s about British society, their version of the slacker generation: people doing something with their lives. The British version of doing something with your life is a lot different than the American version — we say doing something is making a lot of money. The British think you need to go out and live your life, and do whatever you want to do. Whether that’s find the girl you love, quit the job you hate, whatever. You’re going to be dead soon. » buzz: What was your first contact with zombies? MB: I’m 12 or 13, and my parents went out to dinner. I snuck into their room to try out HBO and
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look for tits ... you never knew when there’d be a sudden flash of breast, so I would stay up all night waiting for it. Suddenly there’s a naked woman, and I’m thinking glory hallelujah! But turns out, it’s a zombie cannibal movie. Very gory, very explicit. When you’re 13, that will mess you up. » buzz: It’s weird that your first zombie experience was also a sexual one. MB: Well, that was the goal, but let’s just say things deflated very quickly. » buzz: The vampire boom that seems to be happening in tandem to the zombie boom is a lot more explicitly sexual. Can you add eroticism to zombies? MB: I’m grateful this hasn’t happened yet, but I bet someone will. With the vampires, and Twilight, that’s just the nature of the beast. The beast not being horror, but capitalism. Anytime there’s a hint of money, somebody gets the idea to market it to tween girls. Tween girls are the engine of the global economic system. If you can market something to little girls who spend their parents’ money, get obsessed and buy anything related to the product, that’s where the money is. » buzz: Do you have any ideas for teen supernatural romance? MB: I got nothing. So I’m screwed.
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rannert Art Museum (KAM) opened its annual School of Art and Design faculty exhibit Thursday Nov. 10, with a reception open to the public from 5-7 p.m. The KAM faculty show has been going on for decades, said museum director Kathleen Harleman. “As far as I know, this is the oldest faculty show in the country that is still happening,” she said. “And it’s been an important part of our program along with showing the work of MFA and BFA students from the School of Art and Design.” This year, there are 22 faculty members participating. As Harleman said, the show captures the full breadth of the School of Art and Design. Not only will works of art be on display, but also the research that many of the staff has been working on. “I would say that most of the research has gone into the product on display,” said Harleman. “So whether you’re an artist that makes a work of art or writes a book, pretty much what you’ll see in the show is the fruit of those years of research or thinking or working on something.” Sustainability and graphic design professor Eric Benson is one of the participants who will be on display alongside some of his research in sustainability and its role in industrial and graphic design. Benson has been part of the faculty show since 2006 and said he is just as excited to be part of it this year as in the past. This year, he has two
projects that will be displayed. One, a video of a talk he gave with TEDx — a nonprofit “devoted to ideas worth spreading” about technology, entertainment and design — on sustainability and his website re-nourish.com. The other display is what he calls a “bizarre project” he did with a friend who teaches at the Memphis College of Arts. “She and I were really interested in this idea of the death of design and how design is really a moment in time — you see something, and it’s on a wall, and it’s gone a week later,” Benson said. Much like the work he has displayed in the past, such as bottled motor oil in the form of water bottle advertisement, the message of his work has an innate political-satirical approach to it. “The notion of being sustainable requires an element of social justice, which is inherently political,” said Benson. “So anything that I do will have some sort of politics to it.” Benson isn’t the only faculty whose art has a purpose beyond its surface. “It’s a really diverse amount of concerns and interests,” said Harleman. The exhibit will consist of everything from video, ceramics, graphic design, painting and sculptures carved out of wood. What is also different about the exhibit is the opportunity it presents for the faculty to use their own work as a teaching device. “It’s a great way for a student to see their professor’s work on display and have them critique
Random Shit Box: The Oxford English Dictionary is the “accepted authority” on the English language. The OED is also a historical dictionary that traces the change of word meaning over time. Its first edition was published 150 years ago; currently, the OED contains the definition/pronunciation/history of 600,000 words. It is an invaluable resource for any scholar trying to construct meaning from texts of the past. Plus, you can look up swears in it. And that’s just what we did! Swears have been around forever. Take a look! » Fuck: Fuck was first used as a verb around 1500 by a monk. The OED says fuck derives from a bastardized, third-person plural of the Latin “fuccant.” The word’s next recorded usage was from a margin note, in which a different monk wrote “fuckin abbot” in the margins of a history text (for a long time, the only people who wrote anything were monks). I totally sympathize with the margin note vandal. Abbots are fuckers. They screw 8
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it,” said Harleman. “One of the real things that amazes me about this, you know, is you might be a professor like Ron Kovatch who has been known as a ceramist, but the work he has displayed here is on paper.”
Harleman said it’s exciting to see the faculty work across media and disciplines because it helps encourages their students to branch out, too. The exhibit is available for the public and students until the end of December.
Where the heck do swear babies come from?
everything up! Abbots are notoriously my least favorite clergymen. » Shit: Shit wasn’t always a swear. Recorded usage dates back to Early Old English (the words you couldn’t read in Beowulf) as slang for, “A singular mass noun or as a count noun.” Shit didn’t mean “to void excrement” until around 1325 — likely because people did not poo until 1318. » Cunt: For a long time (since about 1280), cunt meant “Outward female genitalia.” Samuel Becket demonstrates with a witticism: “His young wife had abandoned all hope of bringing him to heel by means of her cunt, that trump card of young wives” (1956). Oh, Becket! You sure understand women! Unfortunately, in 1929, someone called a girl a cunt, she got mad (typical!), and the word took on a disparaging connotation. Now, saying cunt in America is pretty offensive. You’re not even supposed to print it in newspapers! Whoops. » Cock: The earliest recorded usage of cock is 897, and not surprisingly, it meant chicken.
However, the OED says the word took on its, in academic jargon, “penis-y meaning” in the fifteenth century. Cock started meaning cock after people started calling, “A spout or short pipe serving as a channel for passing liquids through, and having an appliance for regulating or stopping the flow; a tap,” cocks. If you think about it, that’s exactly what a penis does. » Douche-Bag: Douche-Bags weren’t around until 1908, when a gynecologist handbook suggested medical experts to “Hang the douchebag eighteen inches above the level of the patient’s hips.” OED defines a DB as “a sterile receptacle for the fluid when administering a douche; freq. applied to the whole apparatus used for douching, including rubber tubing, nozzles, etc.; (b) U.S. slang, a general term of disparagement, esp. for an unattractive or boring person.” Coincidentally, both definitions aptly describe anyone who’s ever been on an MTV reality show.
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band is better than another. “There are some bands that are more active than others, but that really doesn’t mean anything at all,” McCoy said. “We just want to promote local music awareness for everyone.” Loyalty to the Collective runs deep. Several members have moved away to other states and cities in recent years, and they have still maintained ties to the Collective. A few members run mail-order distribution for CU bands, and a compilation CD of CU bands is being put together by an older, out-of-state Collective member to raise funds for the Collective’s efforts. The Collective has recently focused its attention to opening up an all-ages venue in the CU area. “Last year, there were about four or five houses that threw shows,” said member Darwin Keup. “They would have a rotation system so that no house was overused. Those don’t really exist anymore, and now we’re left with only a house or two to throw our own shows. The music scene is suffering because of it, and we want to fix that.” The Collective’s intentions are to open up a new venue for touring and local bands, while keeping it
non-profit. The venue would not just be limited to music either. If they can get a venue up and running, the Collective plans to host local art galleries and film screenings as well. The venue would be a much better place to hold shows compared to the houses that house them now, where there are noise restrictions and other rules to follow. A guaranteed space for shows would also quell potential newcomers’ anxieties. “Many people seem to think that the house shows are exclusive,” a member said, “which could not be further from the truth. At our house shows, we want to welcome anyone and everyone in that wants to hear live music.” Obviously, a primary issue for the Collective is finding funding for the new venue. Land ain’t cheap. The obvious way for the Collective to raise funds for a venue is to host more concerts. The next official CU Collective show is this Thursday, November 17 at Mike ‘N Molly’s in downtown Champaign at 105 N Market St. The show features Grandkids, Midstress, Death Tram, Isaac Arms, and Petunias. Tickets are five dollars, and it’s 19+. The Collective stresses that going to these shows
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is a way that anyone can significantly contribute to the cause. If people want to help the cause, they should go to Collective meetings, which are held every other Sunday on the top floor of Espresso Royale, on the corner of Oregon and Goodwin in Urbana next to the Canopy Club. Any bands that are looking for promotion can submit their music to an email address listed on the Collective’s website.
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inding live, local music: it’s an issue that plagues many students on campus. The CU Collective is here to solve that issue. The CU Collective is a group of Champaign-Urbana residents that promote local music awareness across the area. Comprised of several local musicians from bands such as Hank, Easter, Midstress and His Throne (among others), the collective has been promoting shows through a group on Facebook called “Champaign area shows” for a while. Now, the Collective runs its own website (cucollective.com) to promote any band or musician in the area. The new website is a fantastic place to find new local music. It already has 48 local bands/musicians listed with linked music, bios and pictures to go along with each band. “We don’t discriminate against different types of music,” a member in the collective stated during a group discussion. “Every band typically has a punk-rock, DIY ethos, but really all types of music are appreciated.” The website also has a long list of venues for bands to play, ranging from houses to record stores to bars. It is the perfect starter handbook for any local CU band. An important thing to stress about the collective is that there is no outright “manager”; there is no hierarchy. Anyone can be a part of the collective, and anyone can make suggestions. “We don’t want to get to a point where people look at us as a ‘clique’ or a ‘scene,’” said member Ryan McCoy. “We do promote our friends’ bands, but not exclusively our friends’ bands. We want this to be open to everyone. Any band that does anything DIY in the CU area, we want them involved.” No band really gets an upper hand in promotion, either. There is a sense of equality throughout the collective, regardless of if they actually think one
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THURSDAY 17 art & other exhibits Art @ the Y presents ‘Waveland: A Meditation’ University YMCA, 9pm Celebrating the King James Bible at 400 Exhibit U of I Main Library, 8:30am Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 9pm Strands Cinema Gallery, 10am Warriors, Guardians, and Demons Spurlock Museum, 9pm Makeba! Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 9am Watercolors, Photos and Drawings by Michael Fuerst 133 West Main, 8am Astral Convertible Stage Set Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 9am Yarn ‘n Yak Rantoul Public Library, 7pm
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live music & karaoke Liquid Courage Karaoke Memphis on Main,9pm Fareed Haque & Mathgames Canopy Club, 9pm Bentley’s Thursday Night Karaoke Bentley’s Pub, 3pm, DJ Ollie & DJ Hot Saus Highdive, 10pm Compania Flamenca Jos Porcel: Gypsy Fire Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm, Coyote Grace: Transgender Day of Remembrance Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 7pm,
mind, body, & spirit Counseling Center Among Women Support Group Asian American, 6:30pm Cultural Center Lunchtime Express Core with Maggie Taylor Amara Yoga & Arts, 12pm
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Way Off Broadway The Station Theatre, 8pm
Bingo for Silly Prize Mike ‘n Molly’s, 9:30pm
FRIDAY 18 art & other exhibits Astral Convertible Stage Set Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 9am
live music & karaoke DJ EpilepC Cowboy Monkey, 8pm ‘Appy Hour Silvercreek, 5:30pm DJ Delayney Highdive, 10pm Feudin Hillbillys Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., 9pm 88.7 WPCD Presents: Ryan Groff, AEWYM (RECORD RELEASE) and Megan Johns Indi Go Artist Co-o, 8:30pm Sousa Meets the Mikado Virginia Theatre, 7:30pm DJ Tommy Williams Chester Street, 9pm
Mind, body, & spirit Friday Night Live Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, 6:45
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Sports, games, & recreation Open Gym Volleyball Champaign County Brookens Administration Center, 5:30pm Chess Club Rantoul Public Library, 3:30pm
The Impalas at Boomerang’s Bar and Grill Boomerang’s Bar and Grill, 8pm, Jazz Music by Panache Jim Gould Restaurant, 7pm, Art @ the Y presents ‘Waveland: A Meditation’ University YMCA, 9am, Decadents at Bentley’s Bentley’s Pub, 9pm
Mind, body, & spirit Kids Yoga Amara Yoga & Arts, 10:30am,
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Buck-a-Bag Book Sale Rantoul Public Library, 9:30am
Art @ the Y presents ‘Waveland: A Meditation’ University YMCA, 9am Celebrating the King James Bible at 400 Exhibit U of I Main Library, 8:30am Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 9am Strand Cinema Gallery, 10am
Live music & karaoke Dry Creek Station Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, Paul Thorn Canopy Club, 8pm
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Movies & theater Way Off Broadway The Station Theatre, 8pm
Sports, games, & recreation Run for the Library Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, 9am
SUNDAY 20 Live music & karaoke Open Mic Nite Phoenix, 5pm Surreal Deal Rosebowl Tavern, Ltd., 8:30pm
Sports, games, & recreation Big Dave’s Trivia Cowboy Monkey, 7pm Book Club Rantoul Public Library, 2pm
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Watercolors, Photos and Drawings by Michael Fuerst 133 West Main, 8am
Classes, lectures, & workshops MELD: Monday Evening Life Drawing Group McGown Photography, 7pm Poetry Workshop Red Herring Coffeehouse, 7pm
Live music & karaoke 80’s Night w/ DJ Mingram Highdive, 10pm Electro/Industrial Night Chester Street, 9pm Abe Froman Project Monday Night Improv/ Rockstar Karaoke Mike ‘n Molly’s, 9pm, One Dollar Wild Mondays Canopy Club, 10pm, Mannheim Steamroller Concert Assembly Hall, 7:30pm,
Mind, body, & spirit Hatha Yoga with Grace Giorgio Amara Yoga & Arts, 5:30pm,
Miscellaneous Monday Night Comedy 7pm,Illini Union
Sports, games, & recreation Bingo Night Memphis on Main, 10pm
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Open Mic Nite Phoenix, 7pm 90’s Daughter Cowboy Monkey, 9pm Ryan Ideus & Feudin Hillbillys Canopy Club, 8pm Donnie Heitler -- Solo Piano Great Impasta, 6pm Salsa Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 10pm Candy Foster and the Shades of Blue at Boomerang’s Bar and Grill Boomerang’s Bar and Grill, 8pm Open mic night at Samuel Music Samuel Music, 5pm Coyote Ugly Night w/ DJ Stifler Highdive, 9pm Art @ the Y presents ‘Waveland: A Meditation’ University YMCA, 9am DJ Tommy Williams Chester Street, 9pm Tango Dancing Cowboy Monkey, 7:30pm
Dueling Guitars at Jupiters/ Crossing Jupiter’s II, 8pm DJ Hot Saus Highdive, 10pm RockStarz KaraokePresented by 3L Entertainment The Corner Tavern, 8pm Open Mic Night Cowboy Monkey, 10pm The Piano Man Canopy Club, 9pm
Miscellaneous Man UP (Men’s Support/Social Group) Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), 7pm
Movies & theater Israeli Movie Club Hillel Foundation - The Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life, 7pm
Sports, games, & recreation Trivia Tuesdays Memphis on Main, 7pm
WEDNESDAY 23 Art & other exhibits Celebrating the King James Bible at 400 Exhibit U of I Main Library, 8:30am Strands Cinema Gallery, 10am
Live music & karaoke
Miscellaneous Open Mic Comedy Night Memphis on Main, 9pm
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES
March 21-April 19
If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas, unburdened by the overwrought excess? I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks, Aries. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, extraneous buffers, and pretentious puffery.
November 17 – 23, 2011
LIBRA
Sept. 23-Oct. 22
In a review of James Gleick’s book *The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood,* *The Week* magazine reported that “the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003.” From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don’t be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you’ve been taking in.
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
SCORPIO
Oct. 23-Nov. 21
“Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: Evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they’re obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or please her parents or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering or make interesting works of art? It’s an excellent time to ponder these issues, Taurus -- and then take action to ensure you’re surrounded by moths that favor beautiful candles.
In his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. “Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume,” he continues, and then “build a staircase. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, going up, not very high . . . Don’t go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds.” Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It’s a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present moment as you free yourself from “the unrepairable past.” (Read the poem at bit.ly/NerudaOde.)
GEMINI
May 21-June 20
SAGITTARIUS
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
CANCER
June 21-July 22
CAPRICORN
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
In Santa Cruz there used to be a nightclub that featured live rock bands on a big stage but enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm. Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you’re in now, Gemini. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some organic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?
A great deal of land in the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea by human effort. But the system of dikes that holds back the primal flow is not a foolproof or permanent guarantee against flooding. That’s why more and more people are building homes that can float if they have to. “We are actually trying to move away from fighting against the water,” says architect Koen Olthuis. “We are beginning to make friends with the water.” I recommend you adopt this as a useful metaphor, Capricorn. During the coming months, you should be doing a lot of foundation work. What can you do to add buoyancy?
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AQUARIUS
July 23-Aug. 22
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
“Our elders know you don’t find the answer by asking thousands of questions,” says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group The Last Tree (thelasttree.net). “The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning.” I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Given the sparkly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.
by Matt Jones
“B-Sides”--that’s what we’re playing.
Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn’t afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called *Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.* To be as thorough and careful as he could possibly be about such an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement. I hope that you are as scrupulous in wrapping up loose ends in the coming week, Sagittarius, especially when you’re dealing with enigmas and riddles. As you seek resolution and completion, go well beyond the bare minimum.
During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it is very skilled at transforming itself. It sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You’re in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening, Cancerian. Your commitment to change doesn’t have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vigorous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.
“Progress isn’t made by early risers,” wrote author Robert Heinlein. “It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” That’s exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks. You don’t have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won’t help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a “happy-go-lucky” person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.
jone sin’
Jan. 20-Feb. 18
According to my old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown, “Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you -- madness is in the saddle anyhow.” Let’s take this hypothesis as our starting point, Aquarius. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lunacy. Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy -- the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpetrates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20
It won’t be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength, clarity, and intelligence in the coming weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer, and smarter. No pressure, right? Don’t worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you’ll need, imagine that you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing judiciously from that highoctane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain.
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kardashian korner Why are we keeping up with them again? I can never remember if it’s handbag or hand cart. I’m speaking, of course, about the mechanism that things go to hell in. I think I’ve heard it both ways. Hell in a hand cart probably makes more sense, but I think I prefer things going to hell in a handbag more. Either way, it appears our society is heading in the hell direction at a record freaking pace. I mean, really, things are sort of starting to get ultra strange. As I was “researching” this column over a few beers, I found that after a short time I just sort of stalled. Usually it’s just a blackout, but this time it was different. It was just stupidity overload. There were countless things that were in the news last week that it was easy to be confused and pissed off about. I thought about the Wall Street protests, but I’m not sure I really under-
whole wedding was a sham and if it was only held to make a lot of money. Okay, let me answer that right off. Of course it was a sham. Everything in the squeaky-voiced, empty-headed girl’s life is a sham. It might even be an amazing piece of performance art if they were aware in any way just how depraved they are. Let’s forget the wedding for a moment and go back to the beginning. I first heard of Kim Kardashian because there was a porn video of her. I’ve never seen this video, but I can only assume the production quality is far better than it is on the regular show. Anyway, a video of her banging some dude comes out, and she is famous. I don’t get it. Morons make porn every single day of the week, and we don’t have to see TV shows with their families. I suppose her case was different because she came from a rich family and she had famous friends. I’d heard of the name before, but it was because her father was O.J. Simpson’s friend and lawyer during that whole trial where O.J. got off for killing a couple of people. It’s gotta be sad for the family that being friends with O.J. Simpson is in many ways the most endearing quality they possess. So this girl becomes famous for being in a porn video, and she ends up making a lot of money from it. This essentially makes her a porn star, or at the very least, a hooker. So she gets a show and puts her whole famewhore family on this show, and a large part of our population thinks they should watch it on TV. I’m sure all the viewers know it’s crap, but hell, it’s on the TV, so we’d better watch. Here’s the problem, though: they are morons, and they appear to be breeding at a stunningly snappy pace. There are already a crapload of them, and I bet it won’t be long before every town in America has one living there. I will say I’m surprised the two idiots got divorced at all. I can’t imagine them fighting about anything only because arguing requires putting sentences together and having more thoughts than a bowl of oatmeal. My biggest problem with the Freakshow Family is that they appear to be very proud of all the things they’ve pretended to accomplish. Where I come from, if your father is the friend and lawyer of a murderer, and everyone is passing around a video of you having sex, and your marriage was shorter than the live version of “Stairway to Heaven,” it is not a reason for celebration. It is a reason to lock yourself inside the house and not leave for several years. Their lives seem to me like something to be ashamed of, but they make it seem like they’re crapping golden turds. It’s weird; you’d really think it would be more interesting.
The thing is that it’s absolutely the least important topic in the world, but on the other hand, it sort of sums up just how moronic we’ve all allowed our world to become. stand what the hell is going on. I also thought about everything that’s going on at Penn State, but I figured all I’d end up doing is repeating what I heard other people say. Besides that, it’s beyond depressing and far past disgusting. So, as is my nature, I opted to take the easy way out and just talk about that goddamned simpleton Kardashian girl getting a divorce. The thing is that it’s absolutely the least important topic in the world, but on the other hand, it sort of sums up just how moronic we’ve all allowed our world to become. Actually, forget allowing it. We’ve pretty much encouraged it. It takes virtually nothing to entertain us anymore. I know it’s a tough topic for me because that family generally keeps everything pretty hushhush. Fortunately, I have an inside source: every freaking media outlet ever created. I’d really like to know how I’m even aware of this crap. Trust me — I don’t actively seek out information on the Kardashians, and yet I know far too much about them simply by being a citizen of Earth. If our country was saturated with sound investment advice at the same rate we’re saturated with the Dipshit Family, we’d all be living high on the hog, and the Wall Street problem wouldn’t even exist. Of course, Kim is in the news this week because she got a divorce after about 72 hours, and now many of her fans are wondering if the 16
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