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Surviving in Starkville BY: Barney Thompson While many of our fellow students will be sitting at home enjoying the company of their family on Thanksgiving weekend, the truly passionate among us will be sloshing through the bovine waste littering the campus of Mississippi State to cheer on our Rebels. Yes, there is literally an endless amount of places that would be more enjoyable than this one-trick cow town, but we made the choice and now Starkville has to live with it. To ensure that we lose as few fans as possible on our pilgrimage to God’s forsaken country, The Black Sheep has put together a list of some Do’s and Don’ts for a – literally—forgotten Thanksgiving.
Bring along another Rebel or two: Take a friend; it’s dangerous to go alone. If Starkville was a character from a movie, it’d be that banjo kid from Deliverance. That’s no place to be drunkenly stumbling around while shouting how Bully can suck Colonel Reb’s racially unbiased dick. Bring large amounts of alcohol: Aside from bringing a friend to avoid weird backwoods sodomy, this is the most important thing you can do this weekend. We don’t know about you, but at The Black Sheep, Thanksgiving just isn’t complete if you remember it; aim for a really drunk weekend and you can’t go wrong. Starkville is hard enough to handle already, no need to do it sober. Also, it’s a proven fact that school spirit scales exponentially with every cowboy pull you take.
Wear a rubber at all times: You’re probably thinking that’s ridiculous, but as soon as those country bumpkin sloots get wind that you’re from the prestigious school up north, it’s likely they’ll try to Danny Brown you on the spot. “Hey, who’s against a free beej?” you ask, but you haven’t even heard of half the diseases floating around the back of their throats; the primary reason for that being every petri dish they’re put in is instantly eaten away like someone poured battery acid on it. Bring a hick-to-English translator: Ever tried listening to someone who goes to State? It’s like they only went to English class on the day vowels were covered. Mix in the slurring from the socially accepted inbreeding and you’re in for a hell of a time trying to buy a pack of smokes.
Wear any brown clothes: You’ll never see a happier MSU knuckle-dragger than when he’s spotted a “giant-ass buck.” For this reason it is highly recommended you do not wear any deer-colored clothing. You absolutely will be shot, and Starkville is not known for its sterile medical facilities. Use big words: They don’t understand ‘em, so they don’t like ‘em. At best they’ll call you a “fuggin yangy,” at worst they’ll pull out two 19th century dueling pistols and challenge you to a shootout. Now, as deep as our traditions go here at Ole Miss, there’s not much in the way pistol training; most of our shootings were a
little one-sided and now culturally unacceptable. Bring anything shiny: It really gets ’em going when they see that gleam. They devolve into their primal monkey ancestors, whooping and screaming while palming turds and pitching them as hard as they
can at anyone in the immediate area. How could a human physically do that without diving into a marathon of puking, you ask? Most Starkville residents have grown accustomed to a stagnant smell of waste wafting through the town. It seems to stem from their athletics building, possibly proving wrong that their football
program is not shit. So, there it is, your quick and dirty Do’s and Don’ts for this year’s Egg Bowl. Hopefully this’ll help you to survive what will surely be a great time filled with illicit substances and Sunday morning regrets. Stay strong fellow Rebels, stay strong.
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We are All Underage By: Knowlton Bourne OXFORD - Bouncer Tony Montillo was hospitalized on Friday after having a mental breakdown due to the surplus of fake IDs presented to him by freshmen. After being diagnosed with schizophrenia and an extreme identity crises, Montillo could only say, “The IDs became too much. Overwhelming doesn’t even begin to describe it.”
freshmen chugging Michelob Ultra and Redbull-tequila shots? From there, we kind of have to turn a blind eye to the swarm of male freshmen and let ‘em in, too. Sometimes I’ll kind of vaguely ask them questions pertaining to their so-called ‘IDs,’ but at the end of the day, that’s how we make our money.”
Known as Neon Electro, Montillo is a bouncer at the local bar. The bar was allegedly “harassed” by 250 freshmen looking to, “slam some Nattastrophe and slide up on that sliz with their new IDs.”
According to Tony Montillo, this is the usual business for the bar. After rush, the bar’s profits skyrocket in alcohol sales, as well as the glow-stick, condom and 5-hour Energy shot dispensers in both bathrooms.
The bar is known to be hospitable to freshmen at Ole Miss, often letting them take refuge and drink heavily on the weekends. Montillo remarked, “Now that rush is over we let the girls in, because what the hell is a bar without hot
“We see a lot of fake IDs, mostly poorly laminated cards with distorted pictures. A lot of older brothers and sisters, friends who switch IDs around, kids are getting elaborate with it all,” said Montillo.
When asked about what broke his mental stability and bouncing spirit, Montillo replied, “After the 200th freshman that paraded into the bar for the Friday night Bubble Beer Keg party, hosted by DJ T-Wrecks, I just sort of snapped.” “Twenty or so of them passed the same fake ID back under the door to each other. Some guy tried to use his student ID, and another kid kept trying to offer me a Quiznos gift card and a twenty dollar bill. I just lost it.” Montillo took all the fake IDs from the freshmen then poured a bottle of Wild Turkey on one “particularly obnoxious freshman.” “One kid used his sister’s fake ID and I wasn’t only confused at such audacity, but also angry. I confiscated the ID, and instead of calling the cops or asking him to leave, I gave him the alcohol he was looking for.”
The bouncer then proceeded into the Bubble Beer Keg party and smashed anything he could get his muscular, tattooed arms on. “Bros were actin’ wack, so I kinda started acting wack. I was having identity issues, not just with these kids and their fake IDs, but also with myself. I couldn’t remember who I was, so I resorted to a sort of animalistic state.” The bartender, Chet McCluckister, reported that Montillo curled himself into the fetal position and began talking to himself. “He thought he was a freshman trying to get into the bar for DJ T-Wrecks’ killer spinning set.” The bartender continued, “I tried offering him some dope-ass Jell-O shots we cooked up for the event but he kept repeating random street addresses and astrological signs to himself.” “Tony really freaked some fresh-
men out, a lot of them either joined him in smashing the bar’s merchandise or surrendered their awful fake IDs and left. DJ T-Wrecks was pretty bummed, he was about to get his light show blazin’ on all the fine-ass freshmen biddies.” The DJ remarked, “Shit man, I was trying to get my groove on with some fire-ass nug beats, n’aw sayin? My boys at the bar supply my mixes with the dopest of dope biddies and there’s always Natty’s hanging from the rafters, n’aw sayin?” DJ T-Wrecks, a fresh-
man at Ole Miss, was blown away by the bouncer’s reactions to the ID’s. “Shit man, I’m always usin’ my fake ID here. Dat’s just how it goes, you got some sort of ID, you get on dat dance floor, n’aw sayin?” Montillo has been fired by the bar and is now being treated at the psychiatric facility in Whitfield, Mississippi. The bouncer’s mental stability is being diagnosed while he is still under the impression that he himself is a freshman here at Ole Miss.
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The penny is dying. Just like hipsterism and Weeds, pennies just aren’t good anymore. Hell, it costs more to make a penny than a penny is worth. Point being, everyone and their granddad uses cards today and those who don’t just toss their pennies anywhere into the sad, beat up “take a penny, leave a penny” tray, in the garbage, or at all those poorly-groomed Oxford hobos. The Black Sheep has some much better ways to dispose of those little Lincolns. 10.) Settle your parking tickets: What better way to stick it to the man than with twenty-five bucks in pennies. Sending almost 5,000 loose pennies is going to make Ocford rue the day they unfairly ticketed your double-parked hunk of junk. C’mon, the park job wasn’t even that illegal. 9.) Build shit: Bring out the inner Ron Swanson or Bob the Builder in you. Except not with real wood or traditional building materials; you could hurt your pretty, little, overeducated face. But pennies and super glue? That sounds like a recipe for fun!
Stoned Senior Makes Greatest Entrace to Class in Ole Miss History By: Logan Little “It was the smoothest thing I’ve ever seen,” says Philosophy TA Tony Delong, who witnessed the masterpiece of an entrance as it happened during his lecture. The time was 10:21 a.m. and the professor was settling into the crux of his lecture when the quietest entrance to a classroom ever was made right behind the lecturing teacher. The University of Mississippi’s classroom doors are, as scientist say, “loud as shit,” but one student was skillful enough to suppress the familiar startling clank of the door. “I mean, if I wasn’t looking at this chick’s yoga pants up front I would have totally missed it. Usually, if you’re that late you get an absence,” said a male onlooker who asked not to be identified. The door closed just as quietly as it opened, and the boy turned around slowly. “The guy looked like shit,” says freshman Beau Aldeauton, “he snuck in super quiet, so the professor didn’t see him, but we did. The dude was stoned out of his mind. I sit in the last row back and I could see the red eyes and post-bong rip forehead sweat.” The young man, sporting a “horse t-shirt” and “wrinkled-as-shit khakis,” quietly sat that morning’s Chic–fil-A bag on the floor as he adjusted the straps on his NorthFace backpack to achieve ultimate stealth. As he crept slowly with his back to the wall, almost every student in the classroom had their eyes on their slightly inebriated classmate’s sly entrance. Just as the coast was about to be clear, he noticed the worst possible thing that could have happened, happened. He had left his Chic-fil-A at the door. The whole class had noticed their stoned classmates’ mistake as the young man sat stunned
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at what happened. The professor, having never seen so many “attentive” faces dove into a more passionate lecture than normal, which gave the young toker a perfect opportunity to make a go for his forgotten breakfast. “Homeboy, was looking hella-faded and you could tell he was frustrated cause you know those Chic–fil-A tater tots get all soggy in that box, so after a minute of tappin’ his foot, he got up,” reports senior Carter Aaron. Red eyes on the prize, the young man slowly rose from his seat and step by step, slowly made his way to his breakfast bag.
8.) Create a scandalous dress: This one is for you sexy ladies. Glitz, glam, gams; you’ll have it all! Just because all the starlets wear dresses bedazzled with stuff that’s worth real money doesn’t mean you have to. A teeny dress of pennies is the way to go. Who ever said “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” obviously hasn’t met Mr. Lincoln. 7.) Cover your wall in them: How clever and fancy will you look now? You could even get creative and arrange them in a gradient or by date. It’ll be like you’re on ‘effing HGTV or some shit. 6.) Shove them under the doors of your least favorite humans: That dude across the street has been putting off some bad vibes, and we’re not talking about the Axe body spray he firmly believes is a bath. All you know is that kid deserves something fierce. Why not confuse/annoy the crap out of him with a million pennies under the door? Plus, maybe he’ll slip on them and turn into a more decent human being. 5.) Melt the copper into something useful: Like a paperweight, or a cell phone case, or a dildo. Wait, no, that sounds painful. There may not be that much copper in pennies anymore, but why not give it a go. Maybe you could make some new wires for your crappy speaker system? 4.) Pay back your dick friend: This guy bought you one sandwich one week ago. Well, maybe 3. But, he sure didn’t need to text and Facebook and Snap Chat you every day about it. This guy deserves 1,000 pennies to the face.
After he was well past the point of no return, a sneeze from a front row classmate on the same side as him nearly gave away his position. Using his resin-stained presence of mind, he dropped to the floor, escaping the professor’s sight by hiding behind the taller-than-normal podium. As the lecture continued, it was a full blown D-Day army crawl for the sweet glory that is a Chic-fil-A biscuit. “He made a u-turn on the floor and crawled back to his seat on the ground, got under the desk and slithered up to his chair, no problem,” says TA Tony, “he got it all done up with BBQ sauce and was about to take a bite, and you could tell he was real happy about it.” As our stoner hero was finally able to enjoy his Chic–fil-A, the class heard, “Alright guys, head on out, thanks for your great attention today.” The stunned stoner looked up shocked to see that it was in fact already 10:50 a.m. and hopped up to exit the class as a slow clap of applause rang behind him for the greatest late entrance ever witnessed at Ole Miss.
3.) Make all of your remaining life decisions: “Should I get married?” “Is it okay to sleep with my professor?” “Should I become a traveling mime with a drinking problem?” These and more are questions the penny can answer for you. 2.) Turn “quarters” into “pennies”: If the point of the game is getting drunk, you might as well turn up the difficulty. Plus, if you get drunk and lose the pennies it’s irrelevant. If you lose quarters, you may never be able to wash laundry or play in that underground poker tournament. 1.) Get a billion wishes: Because we’re all too far in debt for it to matter anyway. All we can do is drink and wish away our problems. Hey, it worked for Miley Cyrus.
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The Black Sheep Interviews: Indie Director Todd Sklar By: Brendan “Film director,” you think flashing lights, red carpet treatment, the power to just…Steve if you don’t get this take right you are finished in this town, do you hear me?! Not so fast, what about those directors still hauling themselves up one rung of the Hollywood ladder at a time? Todd Sklar is one of these indie directors, and with his recent release, Awful Nice, making the rounds, we decided to chat with him to see what the life of an up-and-coming director is actually like.
life. If you want to be doing it, it’s all-encompassing. It’s bad. You’re always doing work, thinking about doing work, finding work, doing work to get more work, if you’re not working you feel like you’re wasting time… Any career where you’re in a situation where you’re pursuing something outside of that nine-to-five, you have to work nonstop to get there, whether it’s a start-up, even an athlete. It’s all-encompassing if you want to be good.
The Black Sheep: You were a college student who dropped out to pursue a career in film, what was the impetus for that? Todd Sklar: I had an absolute blast in college. I loved it. I probably didn’t work hard enough studying, but I’d say I used most of what I’d learnt in college—both inside the classroom and out—after I left the University of Missouri. It helped me in the career I chose, but also helped refine what I wanted to do in that career. It was finding passion in filmmaking, and realizing the career I was looking towards was not one you typically go to college for, then landed a job after. I should note that this was halfway through my fifth year of college— I was a fifth-year senior when I recognized that a degree in theater acting would not help me become a filmmaker.
TBS: You say you fell into directing to better convey your writing vision, how do you balance working with people, but getting across the vision you set for yourself? Todd: I don’t know. I’ve only done a few features, I don’t know if I’ve figured that out yet, because in my experience, I’ve had great people and horrible people. The great people, they’re doing things and helping you through things that are so big, that these talented people help you make your ideas better. It’s incredible. I’ve had the other side too, people who are miserable to work with that and extremely unable to do the job they’re supposed to do. In that case it’s the most frustrating thing in the world, but you can’t do it any better either. It’s very dependent on the people you’re working with. It’s more about them than it is about you.
TBS: How do you get to the point where you’re directing your own films? Todd: I started making shorts, trying to learn how to make movies. I made a lot of bad ones for a while. I made like, fifteen horrible, horrible short films before I made one that was kind of good. I made my second one that was okay, and it was so much work I decided I wanted to make a feature next. After that, I had an idea that was a feature, I was 23 at the time, I watched 3 movies a night with DVD commentary. I gave it a go to see how it works. It was a learning experience—you learn while you’re doing it.
TBS: Your new movie, Awful Nice, how did that change or mature over the span of the creative process? Todd: It changed drastically. We did not have a very good shoot on this movie and the final movie is a shell of the script we wrote. In a weird way it became its own movie when we were shooting it, and again when we were editing it. The movie came out with a lot more physical comedy, a lot quicker, punchier than the script. Films, in a lot of ways, become indicative of what you’re going through at the time, and this film in specific, I was going through some growing pains, and the movie reflects that.
TBS: What does a director do, exactly? Todd: I come from a different background than a lot of directors. I never wanted to be a director, I always wanted to be a storyteller, and writing always comes first. Directing, for me, is making sure what comes out is the story that we wrote. As a result, I’m very much an actors’ director. All you’re doing is trying to get a bunch of other people to do things with you and for you, to get your story across. Usually you’re doing that because you can’t do what they do. If I knew how to get great sound, I could do it, but there’s a guy who is doing it because he’s better at it than I am. He can elevate my results. It’s a pretty humbling, and uh, terrible job.
TBS: Are there benefits to sticking in the indie genre, or is it more people do this so they can go to a studio? Todd: For me, the stories I’m interested in telling and the style I’m interested in telling them tend towards mainstream commercial sensibilities. To be able to transition from independent filmmaker to studio filmmaker you either need to have a lot of confidence and trust in people you’ll be working with, or you have to have a complete lack of care for your story, or it has to be about your career, or you have to be obsessed with the technical side of things. For me, I’m not a technically gifted filmmaker, so transitioning from an independent filmmaker to a studio filmmaker has a lot to do with confidence in myself as a filmmaker. I’ve had an opportunity for studio work, but it’s not something I’m dying to do quite yet.
TBS: How all-encompassing is what you’re doing? Todd: It’s definitely destroys any ability to have a normal
TBS: And speaking of the difference between studio and indie movies, with Awful Nice, you have a pretty big star in Christopher Merloni. Were you concerned at all with if or how he’d pull weight? Todd: All of my problems thus far with filmmaking has come from crew, not from the actors. There’s very much this level of professionalism—I’ll say this: When you have trouble with actors, they’re not invested in the project. In Awful Nice, all of the actors were invested in the project, and they were so helpful in covering up some chaos created by the crew. Very fortunate to have actors like that, and Merloni specifically was exceptionally helpful, not just as an actor, but as a mentor, a guy who came in and gave notes in a script that had nothing to do with his character. TBS: How do you deal with outside criticism, both positive and negative? Todd: You have to take it with a grain of salt. But, for me, there’s two goals: To tell the story in the best way possible, but to also get better in telling the story. So, both positive and negative criticism help better that process by letting you know what you did well, or if someone’s critiquing something, it can tell you what you could be doing better, or where you may have failed story-wise. TBS: Is this a good time, historically, for someone who wants to get involved in moviemaking to do so? Todd: It’s the best time in the history of our existence to be doing this. At the same time, I think the danger to that is that it’s something you can do for a while before you realize it’s not what you want to be doing. I equate it to joining the army. I assume that if you join the Army, you’ll figure out pretty quickly whether or not it’s for you. Filmmaking isn’t like that. Especially nowadays, there’s so many ways to work that you can do it for five or ten years before you realize it’s not for you. There’s such a low barrier of entry, that there’s also such a low barrier to getting more deeply involved with it. The playing field has leveled out quite a bit. TBS: On IMDB a user named JonCharbineux writes, “Todd and Alex came home with my one of my roommates, who was trying to get laid, but they ditched her and stayed up watching die hard with me our other roommate until about 4am. We made ice cream pancakes and popped in Die Hard 2 and I passed out shortly after. When I woke up the next morning, Todd was in my bed and Alex was in Ben’s (my other roommate) and we were both on the couch. We found out later that they stole a bunch of our beer and a box of trisquits. WTF? “ Care to comment? Todd: Wow, when did that happen? That definitely sounds like something I’d do, but not recently. When was this written? TBS: April 2010. Todd: Oh yeah, I know exactly who that is, and yes, that did happen. 2010 was a weird year for everyone.
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Recipe for disaster
Drinking Game Canoe Race
Brownout-of-Your-Ass Burrito
A throwback to the high school garage party days. The Canoe Race is a quick game of a 2-person flip cup and pong hybrid that will get you belching and buzzing in no time flat.
This is one of those meals that you wouldn’t eat unless you were somewhat inebriated. Okay … very inebriated. This burrito will satisfy all your needs when you return to your apartment without a slampiece, and fall back on eating to make up for your lack of game. And it saves you money not having to buy it at Chipotle.
What You’ll Need: 16 red cups, 2 ping pong balls, a table and beers. Number of Players: 4 players Level of Intoxication: You’ll get a lot in ya pretty fast. How to Play: - Split up into two teams of two and stand on opposite sides of the table, each team having one ping pong ball. - Set up four cups in front of each person, Bozo Buckets-style. - Pour beer into each cup, about a quarter of the way up. - When you’re ready, the first people with the ping pong balls try to shoot across their table into their partner’s cups. - If you make a cup, your partner has to chug the beer in the cup and flip it onto the table. - Once your partner completes this, they shoot the ball back across the table to your cups. When they make it, you do the same—chug the beer, flip the cup and keep shooting. - There are no pauses in this game, so don’t wait for the other team to shoot or anything like that. The only time you have to wait before shooting is while your teammate is flipping their cup. They have to have that completed first before taking their turn. The Game Ends When: All of your team’s cups have been flipped!
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What You’ll Need: An oven, a microwave, Easy Mac, pizza rolls, a tortilla, Tabasco sauce, chopped lettuce, hot peppers and any other toppings of your choice. Cook Time: 15 minutes Fatty Factor: You’ll poop it out. No big deal. Let’s Get Baked: - Put the pizza rolls in the oven and let them cook for 15 minutes. - When the pizza rolls are done cooking, take them out of the oven. While they’re cooling off, put the Easy Mac in the microwave for 3 minutes. - Once the pizza rolls have cooled off, wrap them up in the tortilla. - Pour the Easy Mac on top of the pizza rolls. - Drizzle Tabasco sauce over everything, as much or as little as you want. - Put the lettuce and hot peppers on top, along with any other garnishes that strike your fancy (shredded cheese, anyone?). - Roll it up burrito-style and chow down. Mmm, tastes even better when it comes back out.
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Flipping through cosmo
madlib I was on my way to ___1___ , sipping a
___2___ double-whipped, non-fat ___3___ latte or something, and I decided to pick up the Bible for college girls: Cosmo. ___4___ is on the cover and I love her! Her ___5___ is perfect and, personally, I don’t think she has a ___6___ problem, but if she does, who cares? Right away I flipped to the embarrassing stories section because it’s crazy how crazy they are!!! There was a story of a girl who ___7___ ed on a first date! You couldn’t make that shit up!!! They were ___8___ -deep in some endless ___9___ and ___10___ and then right 1: Academic building 2: Size 3: Italian word 4: Has-been celebrity
there, on the waitress, boom. No one got laid that night. Then there’s the beauty section, which had a list of ___11___ face masks. Who knew that rubbing that all over my ___12___ would make it shinier? Who knew you even wanted that shinier? There was also a guide to choosing the right color of ___13___ for your skin tone. They said ___14___ would be perfect for my ___15___ ? Uhm, okay.
5: Body part 6: Drug 7: Bodily function 8: Body part 9: Appetizer
10: Fruity alcoholic drink 11: Root vegetable 12: Body part 13: Type of makeup 14: Obscure color
A flipped through the sex tips, which said that using ___16___ and my ___17___ to give a ___18___ to a guy would make him really like me. I’m skeptical. Then there was something about the ___19___ ___20___ -___21___ position and I was like, whoa. Can’t I get more embarrassing stories up in here? Lastly there was a column about making ___22___ , which I totally clipped and put on my mini-fridge!
15: Facial feature 16: Salad dressing 17: Appendage 18: Type of oral sex 19: Foreign country
20: Direction 21: Body part 22: Drink from #10
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