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Volume 1, Issue 3 • 3/28/13 - 4/3/13
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Behind The Music: PSU BOOMBOX GUY psu staff wrote this The year was 2010. Penn State was a much different place. Joe Paterno still roamed Beaver Stadium’s sidelines on beautiful autumn Saturdays. State Patty’s was still a holiday that hospitalized hundreds of people and caused even more to be arrested. It was magnificent. But something happened that year. Something that would change the place we call Happy Valley. Forever. He was just a guy with a shotty little silver boombox that his dad gave to him because “no one uses these pieces of shit anymore.” He also had an affinity for mediocre music from late 80s and early 90s. It wasn’t until he transferred from Penn State Altoona to University Park in fall 2010 that he realized he could combine these two obscure traits into a full time job. Following a few failed attempts of finding true love on BlackPeopleMeet. Com and ChristianMingle, PSU Boombox Guy was born. No one could describe Boombox Guy better than the man himself. In a mini-documentary found on YouTube, Boombox Guy said “Who is the PSU Boombox Guy? He’s pretty much a 23-yearold kid (as opposed to being a literal 23-year-old) at heart who just decided to have the crazy idea (what?) to carry a boombox around and play music for all the drunk people.” Simply amazing. It wasn’t long before he took State College by storm. Every weekend Beaver Canyon was amplified by horrendous elementary school songs that everyone forgot about, like “All Star” by Smash Mouth and “Mambo No. 5” by Lou Bega. The university’s infatuation with this mysterious gentleman was truly astounding. But never forget the old saying that goes, “Haters Gonna Hate, Staters Gonna State.” “I hate Boombox Guy,” claimed a local Hater/Stater/Motivator. “He slept with my girlfriend and then moonwalked all the way back to his apartment high fiving with everyone in his path.” Boombox Guy’s attire was unlike anything that anyone had ever witnessed. He was never seen in public without his leather jacket that smelled of old urine and stale cigarettes that he purchased at the Westerly Parkway Goodwill. Plastic sunglasses protected him from the sun and all his haters. Later he would add a turquoise and orange Miami Dolphins snapback to complete his notorious ensemble. Local fashionistas from Valley Magazine hailed him and called the addition a “brave and bold move that only someone of Boombox Guy’s stature could pull off mid-semester.” It might have been his amazing fashion sense, it might have been because of the Boombox or his BOOMING personality. But no women could keep their hands off of him.
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“Once I knew I was coming to Penn State I was so happy because I wanted to save my virginity for someone special. Then I saw him one day, on the White Loop with the boombox. I knew he was the one,” stated to one of his many groupies.
After distancing himself from all of his close friends and family, Boombox Guy turned to his nearly 3,000 Twitter followers for comfort. “I’m drinking every night until graduation. WHO’S WITH ME?” he tweeted.
All house parties had three requirements from that point on: women, alcohol, and Boombox Guy. Ironically, the man behind the boombox became obsessed with both alcohol and women, sending him into a downward spiral that no one could have seen coming.
No one responded.
“We all saw it coming,” said an anonymous friend of Boombox Guy. “It got to the point where we sat him down and just said ‘you’re drinking too much and getting too much ass’ and that’s when he cut off ties.”
We tried to reach out to Boombox Guy for this piece but no one at Penn State knew his real name. After months of tireless research we lazily concluded that he drowned in a sea of cheap beer and women. Never forget, PSU Boombox Guy.
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Since that day no one has seen Boombox Guy. Not on campus, not anywhere in State College, not even in his favorite vacation spot, Panama City Beach.
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