2 Vol. 69 NO. 7 EST. 1999 June 3, 2022 OBERLIN’S ALTERNATIVE STUDENT NEWSPAPER Letter from the Editors Priya Banerjee and Levi Dayan Co-Editors-in-Chief Izzy Halloran Managing Editor Wyatt Camery Features Editor Liza MacKeen Shapiro Opinions Editor Saffron Forsberg Arts and Culture Editor Juli Freedman Bad Habits Editor Fionna Farrell, Teagan Hughes, Anna Holshouser-Belden, Raghav Raj, Emma Kang Staff Writers Anna Harberger Layout Editor Eva Sturm-Gross Art Director ISSUE 7 COVER ART Front Cover: Priya Banerjee Back Cover: Eliza Youngman If there’s one person we can all thank for getting us this far, it’s mom my. At The Grape, we all happen to love our moms. Something that not a lot of people know about the Priya, Levi, and Izzy (the EICs and Man aging Editor, respectfully), is that all of our mothers are named Deb. You might think we planned it this way…or you might even think we’re lying, but it’s true! We love our Debs!!!!
Senior #13: “Hang out with dad.”
Senior #2: “I’m, um, interning at my dad’s software company.”
Senior #16: “Ummm… to try and get my job at Brandy Melville back, to have a fabulous summer in the city, and to keep in touch with all my friends!”
Senior #19: “I’m going to work hard to build up my clothing brand “Mortality” and probably getting into healthy food and running.”
Senior #9: “I’m going to go home and hang out with my parents and my cats, and then in about three weeks I’m going to move to North Carolina and I’m going to start my Big Girl job at Bank of America.”
Senior #18: “Continue my sculpture work in my home town in Michigan. I have a girl there but I don’t know if she wants me anymore.”
Priya Banerjee Editor-in-Chief Art by Eva Sturm-Gross
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This past week, I asked as many seniors as I could get my hands on what their post-grad life looked like. Some gave me silly answers and others gave me earnest ones. So without further ado, here is what a bunch of seniors responded to the question, “what are you gonna do after graduation?”
Senior #8: “Ummm… I have no idea but I’m going to live with my parents for a little bit, and then I’m going to fnd a place, and then I’m going to be done living with my parents. And it’s going to be great and I’m going to be making art and fnding community and I’m not going to be stressed and all those things are going to be wonderful.”
Senior #11: “My plans right now are that if I hear back from this job in New York by Friday, then I’ll move to New York. If I don’t, I’ll move to Chicago. And if I move to Chicago, I’ll work for this gallery called Monique Meloche. If I don’t move to New York that’s what I’ll do.”
Senior #15: “Ummm… I am going to home in New York. And then I’m going to Chicago, moving there, and I’m going to do comedy and theater and maybe work at a daycare to make money.”
Senior #20: “Uhh. Six fgures and 30 mile bike rides every Seniorsmorning.”#21:“Iam going to go back to New York and live with my parents and become a big music executive.”
Senior #10: “For now, I’m going to go back to New York. I’m going to be with my family for, like, the least amount of time possible. I’m gonna go visit **** in Philly and stay there and sublet their housemate’s room and see if I want to move to Philly. And then I’m going to go to Greece and work on a documentary with ****** and then maybe… Oh! I’m defnitely going to learn how to drive because I might move to LA depending… or San Francisco. There’s an audio org in San Francisco that I really like. Ummm… but I need to know how to drive. Or I’ll go abroad! I want to bounce around and kinda feel scenes out until I decide where I want to settle.”
Senior #1: “Ummm… I’m gonna go swimming. I’m gonna drive to all my friends. I’m gonna do what you don’t know how to do yet. I don’t think you guys can know everything I get to do because it’s private. I hope you guys have a good summer too. H.A.G.S.!”
Senior #14: “Ummm… I’m going to go back home for the summer and I’m going to do a curatorial intern ship in the American Art department of the Huntington Museum and Gardens.”
*The names of interviewed seniors have been omitted for privacy and for fun
Senior #3: “My post-graduate plans are to, um, get famous and eventually return to the mountains of my home.”
Senior #7: “I’m going to go to Boston and work a job.”
Senior #12: “Um, Priya, I’m going to go to New York for the summer and do a little bit of studying there at a place called Hadar in New York, and then come August I’m going to go to Jerusalem and spend a year there. Not in any kind of military capacity, but instead learn ing Yeshiva in preparation for graduate school.”
Senior #4: “Well, my plan is um. I’m trying to get an in ternship at Smithsonian Folkways where I’ve interned before. And I’m just gonna live with my parents for a bit and I, uh, once I get to the point where I can do the type of writing I do for The Grape like, freelance, once I can get that type of work consistently, I’ll move out and hopefully live in Baltimore. But, like, my goal is to some day get to a point where I can sit in a room surrounded by my collection of records and CDs and have, like, two cats.”
What’s Everyone Doing after Graduation?
Senior #5: “I’m going to move to Los Angeles to become a star. I’m going to grind day and night and become a star.”
Senior #17: “I’m planning to fall in love in Roma.”
Senior #6: “I am going to Paris. I am doing a creative writing program at the American University of Paris until the end of July, and then after that I’m either going to ‘woof’ around or I’m going to go home and work at the Poke store that I worked at last summer.”
GOODBYE FOREVER!
On “Reet,” you’ve got disco licks colliding with kawala fute, a slow-burning gem that’s helmed by El Shaeri’s honeyed delivery. There’s the mirrorball pulse of “Git Ya Sheta,” which cleverly veils a shaking, poly rhythmic core with four-on-thefoor rhythms. It’s never more overt than on the mechanical drum-machine funk of “Oyoun Houriyat,” a song as eager to employ subtle chicken-scratch guitar slickness as it is to bang out some fantastically virtuosic piano bar fligrees. It’s a song that’s unabashed in wearing its infuences on its sleeve, as informed by Michael Jackson as it is by Freddie Mercury — two artists El Shaeri fondly reminisces about seeing live in London in the liner notes. Still, what’s most en during about El Shaeri’s music is the way all these ideas are arranged together. You can hear the Arabic melodies and rollick ing hand-claps on “Weyn Aya mak Weyn,” but it’s bolstered by these creeping synths, anchored by a funky bassline that every thing seems to orbit around.
PriyaSincerely,
Raghav Raj Staff Writer cultural spirit more than Hamid El Shaeri. Born and raised in the neighboring Libya, El Shaeri was regularly performing and recording music in Benghazi with his band, Abnaa Afriqia, by the age of 19. When Gadaf’s regime ramped up enforce ment of their ban on non-Arabic music, El Shaeri left for England in 1980, where he spent three years eagerly soaking up the sounds of popular music before his relocation to Egypt. London also gave El Shaeri more access to the sort of synthesizers that still continue to animate so much of his work. As he remarks in the liner notes of The SLAM! Years, “whenever a new one [synthesizer] would come out, we would have to buy it immediately, otherwise someone else would get their hands on that sound.” That sort of cultural, sonic omnivorous ness is characteristic of Al Jeel, and you can hear it throughout the compilation.
Of all the numerous treasures unearthed by Habibi Funk, a German imprint that’s been specializing in reissues of 1960’s-1980’s Middle Eastern and North African contempo rary music from the since 2012, Libyan musician Hamid El Shaeri’s glimmering “Ayonha” still stands out. On the label’s defning 2017 compilation, An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World (Habibi Funk 007), El Shaeri’s airy, deathless voice was the crown jewel. Though the selection’s country-hopping ar ray of strutting Moroccan funk, choppy Algerian disco, and skro nking Sudanese surf-rock never fails to delight, there’s never anything more immediately arresting than “Ayonha, a sundrenched gem where El Shaeri’s singing glides through buoyant drum machines, fickering guitars, and delicate synths. It’s a perfect little spell, a pure nug get of pop music transcendence that’s both familiar and distinct, fortunately unearthed from rela tive obscurity. As Habibi Funk’s latest release proves, there’s more where that came from. “Ayonha” is just one of many tracks on The SLAM! Years: 1983-1988 (Habibi Funk 018), a new compilation that highlights El Shaeri’s prolifc output on the popular Egyptian cassette label SLAM! through the mid-1980’s. Focusing on the era of music he released before ascending to superstar status in Egypt, The SLAM! Years is an 11-song primer on El Shaeri’s pioneering work in Al Jeel music, the genre he’d help bring to national prominence in Egypt through the 90’s as a home grown alternative to the foreign sounds of rock & roll, dancepop, andArguably,reggae. there’s no one who embodies Al Jeel’s crossHabibi Funk, Hamid El Shaeri, and The SLAM! Years
“Maktoub Aleina” is animated by this techno throb, but it also launches into this siren-like synth solo that seems to mimic the North African zurna. Best of all is the jubilant “Yekfni Nesma Sotak,” which locks itself into a sharp funk groove for one of the sharpest earworms here, anchored in a web of squiggling synths and distinctly Middle Eastern arpeg gios. It’s an immaculately puttogether intersection of musical languages, the sort that makes The SLAM! Years such a rich document of El Shaeri’s work. It is his masterful synthesis that rings clearest throughout the compilation, soaking in all these foreign sounds, and transform ing them into something that’s distinctly Egyptian and utterly sublime.
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surprised by how many seniors wanted to be included. Be cause our team was so small, I was in charge of taking ev ery single yearbook portrait. I dug up my mom’s old digital camera and snapped pics of hundreds of people, some of which were my nearest and dearest and others I had never seen in my life. We got people to send us pictures of their friends and campus and other weird stuf to be included in the yearbook and we compiled it all together in a pretty little book on glossy paper. Our only rule was no selfes allowed. Our 100 page soft-cover yearbook is wimpy com pared to what the Hi-O-Hi yearbooks used to be, but my hope for this project was that it would be the frst step in eventually bringing back the huge, hard-cover, 300 page yearbooks that inspired us to do this in the frst place. It was my special little project and I hope that everyone will want to do it again next year and every year after that. I obviously have an addiction to documenting and ar chiving every little thing, and it has left me with a huge collection of stuf over the past four years. As I start to pack up my room in preparation for leaving Oberlin I’ve been going through all the bits and pieces that I’ve picked up along the way. Almost every ‘Sco bracelet I’ve ever worn is jammed into a little wooden drawer next to my bed. Slowtrain receipts, library book slips, saveplate labels, old posters and fyers, and every Grape that has been published since my freshman year are safely stashed away in my personal archives. And I don’t plan on ever letting them go. One day we will be really old and won’t be able to remember anything at all, but I will have all my little collection of Oberlin artifacts to bring me back even after I am long gone. Goodbye Oberlin! And goodbye Grape! You have been very kind to me and I will miss you loads. Maybe one day we will see each other again…
Happy Commencement Issue of The Grape! I feel like I go to a completely diferent school than the one I frst met in the Fall of 2018. People think about this place so much diferently than they used to and It’s hard to even think of my freshman year at Oberlin as something connected to whatever it is now. Everyone felt bigger, stronger, scarier, sexier, and weirder back then. Everyone took this place very seriously and it was so, so fun and scary to exist in that fucked up little world. Now Oberlin doesn’t seem to care that much. No one feels the need to try that hard anymore, for better and for worse. I’ve spent most of my senior year grasping at traditions that are so close to extinction that no one even really knows or remembers what they’re supposed to look like. Every time we re-enact a tradition from our foggy memories of freshman year it feels half-hearted and underwhelming. It almost doesn’t worth it to try and preserve what little we have left of pre-pandemic campus culture when it seems like no one wants to show up or go out or try hard for anything any more. This graduating class is the last generation that ex perienced Oberlin how it used to be, and maybe it will take us leaving and letting go of all those old things for Oberlin to be reborn into something fun and new again. It’s sad but okay, and hopefully something way bigger, stronger, scarier, sexier, and weirder will be invented in our wake. It may seem like it but I’m not a full-time grump. This year The Grape brought back the Hi-O-Hi after sixteen yearbookless years and it gave me some hope for what ever Oberlin is becoming. The “yearbook committee” was pretty much just Anna, Eva, and I pretending to be operating on a much more ofcial level than we actually were. We worked with the Ofce of the Registrar to gauge the interest of the graduating class, and were soooooooo
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Create an Uncertain Future for WOBC
rior as is. The frst phase of construction entails re-locating the stairwell spanning all three foors to the space now occu pied by the radio station. Frevert stated that “it’s not like they’re just doing this renovation just for fun, they’re putting in the new staircase because just hav ing the big grand staircase as the only all-foor stair is not up to code, and things like that. There are
The upper-administrationcollege’s had been planning a major renovation of Wilder’s interior since the appoint ment of Vice President and Dean of Students Karen C. Gof this past fall. Alex pointed out, however, that WOBC Faculty Advisor Tom Lopez and Associate Director or the Student Union Tina Zwegat were not made aware of the construction plans until the beginning of the spring semester: “They just dropped this in [Tina’s] lap,” says Alex, who works for the student union as well as WOBC, “if you want something quotable, Tina keeps telling me she has nightmares about [the renovations].”
Station Engineer Katie Frevert and Music Director
Frevert claims that the WOBC board was told about the renovation plans a few weeks after Tina and Tom did. A few weeks after that, word got out to the entire student body, stirring up a plethora of rumors regarding the future of WOBC. Katie and Alex, along with representatives of other student organiza tions, were invited to meet with the architects and the administration. The degree to which the WOBC board was consulted in the planning has assuaged some anxiety surround ing the deconstruction of the station: Fervent said she “can’t think of a single other student organization that has had this much input with the adminis tration’’ on the renova tions. She added that the administration has been extremely “open to student and faculty input,” allow ing room for a new radio transmitter, audio proces sor, and surge protector for WOBC in budgeting expenses. Despite these as surances, an air of uncer tainty still permeates the student
Wilder Hall’s rich history reveals itself in every unexplainable stain, funky smell, hole in the wall, and name scrawled on a bathroom stall. The building was once a men’s dormitory, and if you look hard enough, you can still fnd a residual bathtub or vanity mirror that survived the building’s reincarna tion. But there’s much more to Wilder than fossils and hieroglyphs from decades of Oberlin past. The third foor houses one of the oldest received28thth,nitylovedpus:organizationsstudent-runonourcamWOBC,Oberlin’sbecollegeandcommuradiostation.OnApriltheWOBCBoardanemailalert
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During our conversation, Treasurer Alex Adelman described the impending renovations as “the start of another 50 years [of WOBC],” a new era of the organization that future students will “make their own.” Alex, along with the other board members, remain optimistic about the changes thanks to the continued support of both college and community DJs, especially through the ups and downs of these past two years. “Bottom line is, [DJs] love the radio station,” she says, “I think they’ll be patient with us because they really care [about WOBC].”
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While WOBC has survived relocation before, this move will uproot an orga nization already left in fux by the pandemic. With the institutional memory of the station already threat ened by the disruption of normal operations dur ing Covid, many students worry that the upcoming renovations will be the fnal blow to an organiza tion already struggling to stay afoat.
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I had the opportu nity to meet with a few of WOBC’s board members to discuss the renovations and what they mean for the future of the station.
stations recent success to the return of regular pro gramming and outreach: “I think a lot of it is that now that we’ve actually been able to get our events back that we haven’t done [during the pandemic], doing things like Cov erband or even just not doing what we had to do last year with alternating in-person shows remote shows.” Frevert continues by acknowledging that this isn’t “more important than the space, but just having people together in [any] space is really important.”
ing the staf of impending renovations to Wilder that require a relocation of the radio station.Thestation, which has been active in its cur rent location in Wilder since 1964, is packed to the brim with photos, posters, stickers, mementos, and memorabilia collected over the years. The space exists as a physical archive of the station, and the impending renovation plans mean for a complete upheaval of the space that has been practi cally untouched for sixty years. Some minor sleuth ing on WOBC’s website reveals that this isn’t the frst time that the station has been forced to relocate because of the College’s construction plans: “The frst broadcast originated from a building located at 32 East College Street that was later demolished to allow the construction of the Oberlin Inn. When construction of the Inn began in the mid-1950s, the radio station moved to the garage behind Grey Gables, a building on West College Street that was later demolished to con struct the Mudd Center.”
Final opinions from the Board came through with mixed emotions, with each taking a stance of careful optimism shrouded by nostalgia. Alex says that she is ex cited to “see what they do with the new thing. Cause it’s gonna be all new stuf, all new tech, all new hardware“ and adds that “it’s also kinda cool to be the last board in there,” giving the current station a last hurrah of sorts. Emma emphasized continued involvement in events and workgroups, attributing community involvement to being of utmost importance in the moving process. Katie enthuses about new station equipment, assuring that the move’s technical benefts are well worth the wait on construction, though mentions that “it’s sad to see [the space] go no matter how nice all of these new changes are gonna be, it is sad to see that there is no longer gonna be that space that we can go back to.” She brings up a particular anecdote that struck a chord with her, “I remember I was doing my show last year and I saw the doorbell fasher going of, and this guy was coming with his daughter who was a prospie, and he’d been a DJ here in the 80s and he wanted to show [his] kid the station. For generations of people here this has been the space for WOBC.” Eamon expressed his frustration with the renovations coming so soon after station operations fnally neared that of a pre-pandemic WOBC: ”a lot of this campus and its organizations were really trying to re-calibrate everything to how it was before Covid. Just as we were getting our feet planted there we get uprooted again, even if it does serve a purpose. I do wish it came a couple years later, just for the sake of the station. It would’ve been nice to have that feeling of being more cemented in the torch-passing from year to year before it’s back to square one.”
During my last radio show of the semester, on a Friday morning at 1:00 A.M., I sat in the semi-darkness on one of the main studio’s two dilapidated-yet-charm ing swivel chairs, letting my eyes wander around the blue, sharpie-covered walls. The late hour allowed me to get up and peruse the vaults unsupervised, with the as sistance of the fashlight on my phone. Knowing it would likely be my last time in the station as we know it now, I spent the rest of my time creeping around the collection of rooms, taking pictures of old peeling stickers, posters for block parties and cover band showcase (with hits like The Crashing Blumpkins), and staf polaroids from years past. With its frst air date in 1961, the station has been inhabiting the same space for sixty-one years as students and community members flter in and out, graduating and sending their own children of to colleges complete with their own dingy radio stations. With all this history, the station has collected its own memory that goes far beyond the wall grafti that is painted over again and again. At this point, the semester is coming to a close. Another class of seniors is going to walk at commence ment in just a few short days, while others are saying their last goodbyes to campus for the summer. Those like me, who are set to remain for another few years, will watch the beginnings of a new community space forming and will carry on fond memories of the old one.
6 changes that they need to make. It’s not just like ‘What if we made it hard for WOBC?’ The WOBC board was unclear on the subsequent two phases of renovations as they do not directly involve the station. Frevert, by way of the architects, outlined plans for an expansion of student ofces like the Multicultural Resource Center and the Ofce of Student Accessibility Services in order to make room for additional student workers; a remodel of the mailroom, the Rat, and the ‘Sco; and lastly a large open seating area for students to congregate. If all goes to plan, everything is to be completed by the time students return from Fall Break in October of 2022. Frevert added that “if things go according to schedule, we could have a short broadcast season” in the Fall, and that “that would be the ideal” outcome of construction, a hopeful note for those of us hoping to remain involved in the fall. There is some skepticism in whether or not the timeline outlined by the project managers will be met; according to Emma, the Music Director, mix-ups with the new foor plans for Wilder’s interior left WOBC with less space than is necessary for the entirety of their needs—though she attributes this more to the architects’ lack of familiarity with the stations day-to-day operations than a purposeful neglect by the adminstration. Accord ing to both Katie and Emma, WOBC’s faculty advisor Tom Lopez has been working with planners to make sure that the station gets enough space for its expansive, genre-spanning vinyl and CD vaults. The process seems to be moving slowly, and Alex expressed doubts for the timeliness of the project’s completion with the architects
Grafti lovers don’t have to lose any sleep, however; the lewd drawings and indecipherable jokes so cher ished are certain to make a comeback. members of the Board informed me that the walls were painted over more recently than many would assume, with Sharpied comments only dating back as far as 2018. “In the end, there’s history in the grafti but there’s no way that’s a new thing,” says operations manager Eamon McKeon. It’s the seemingly-endless stacks of records, pictures of staf members and DJs long past, old posters advertising events, programs highlighting shows for pre-streaming listening, even stickers clouding over the window glass, that the board is worried about preserving. “I think something that we’re really trying to do – mostly some thing that Tom is trying to do with the rebuild coor dinator this summer – is that all of these pictures and records and artifacts are really carefully packed away and organized, because those I think speak a lot more to the visual institutional memory of the station than walking in and seeing a really gross couch,” McKeon tells me, “we are hoping to try to preserve some pieces of the wall [and] the stickered over glass [also].” McKeon is hopeful that next year’s board, along with these special souvenirs from the soon-to-be packed away station, will get WOBC back where it is today, “as far as bringing that [atmo sphere] back to the station, I don’t think there will be much to keep that from happening,” he says.
“still moving shit around and adjusting their plan at this point, with less than a month to when it would suppos edly start. This is only the frst phase in three phases of renovation and they don’t even know what they’re doing yet.”
Many newer DJs would consider the station’s signature blue, scrawled-over walls to be a hallmark of WOBC’s distinctiveness. I myself fnd it hard to picture the station with blank walls, an image that runs through my mind when I picture the new and improved WOBC.
GOOD TALK, GOODNIGHT Juli Freedman Bad Habits Editor
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As if I don’t already treat Bad Habits as a fun little vanity project, I wanted to infltrate Features to get a bit earnest, a bit weepy, and a bit gracious for my favor ite thing about this place: Good Talk. I got into Good Talk by accident. My Barrows neighbor at the time, Sam Merrick, asked if I could cover for them at this comedy show meeting and let the direc tor know I could be the PA if they still needed one. It was the beginning of my frst spring semester at Oberlin, and even though I was doing well in my classes and had some friends, I really wanted to transfer. I wasn’t fnding any pursuit that I felt passionate about, I was pretty home sick, and in a long-distance relationship with a gamer guy who was making me miserable. I did a few standup open mics in high school, and knew that I secretly really wanted to pursue comedy, but just forced myself to try to ‘grow out of it’ in college. But then I walked into this meeting.This was my pre-medicated era, so I was literally shaking and stumbling over my words because I was so nervous to be around all these older people who seemed extremely close. I think I tried to come of really cool in my introduction by saying that I would bring Rosé and a Corgi in my hypothetical beach bag, smh. I was so enamored by the director and head writer, Ru Anderson, and how hilarious they were (and still one of the cool est people I have ever met by a long shot), that I really made it my sole mission to get them to like me. When I was told to take notes on the script, oh did I take notes of every single thing people were saying at the table read. I think I even added some of my own jokes and sugges tions, which was pretty fucking bold. The whole reason I did my frst Shit Pit was to impress the writers of Good Talk. I can’t say that any of those jokes hold up today, but I defnitely received some more attention from them and started getting a bit more comfortable at each meet ing and rehearsal. They even had me be a part in this opening dance number, which I had to pretend to not be scared shitless about. Ru was an amazing director. They really took the time to get to know everyone (even going to treasurer training with me), work through the politics of our jokes, and dedicate all their time and energy to the show. Ru also was a shit pit regular, opened for Jaboukie, the Bad Habits editor, and built a really solid queer community around them. When they let me sit in on a writer’s meet ing, I had this kind of epiphany that this is what I wanted to do. I also grew to become close with Gabi Shiner, who ran the comedy scene doing Good Talk, improv, theater, and hosting Shit Pit. When I told her how Sarah Squirm (pre-SNL Sarah Sherman) was performing her show HellTrap Nightmare at Mahall’s, Gabi drove me, Shane, and Levi, and introduced us to comedian Luke Taylor, who also happened to be one of the founders of Good Talk. In Ru and Gabi (and really the rest of Good Talk), I saw the kind of person I wanted to be and I wanted to stay at Oberlin.WhenMary Brody took over for Ru, she made the call to scrap the talk-show format we had been doing for a pure sketch show. Now as a writer, this meant I had to produce a lot of sketches when I had only writ ten about 4 sketches in my life that defnitely never saw the light of day. I lived for our weekly writer’s meetings. I would bring in a lot of sketches, most of them not winners. I was pretty intense about it too; when jokes wouldn’t land I would be devastated to an absurd extent. But Good Talk created an environment where we could all just throw anything out there, really experiment, and then collaborate. Oh and also I started taking anxiety meds. What really sucks about COVID, and I think everyone in the world can agree with me on this, is that Good Talk had to pack up our show after only perform ing one and be apart right when we were getting close. We kept writing, but at a much slower pace. I missed the energy of the writer’s room. I may just brush over the se mesters where we produced one totally DIY show in the spring in Mary’s backyard and our summer show in the ‘Sco to get to the meat of it all. Summer was the frst time I took over as the head writer and director— something Mary told me would happen when I was a freshman while trying to show me Bubble Pop Electric by Gwen Stefani at the 123 party where the foor broke. God, I love power! But for real, there is no community out here like Good Talk. I would be the shell of a man without it. It is corny to love your college sketch comedy troupe so much so you would get it tatted (if Mary and Jane keep their promise), but it really has been my everything. And now we have this whole new crop of writers and actors who are creating the same bonds I could feel were between everyone there when I was a freshman. Our opening show of this semester was not just the most packed I have seen the ‘Sco for Good Talk, but for probably 90% of the shows I see there. Gotta thank the fans (and the haters) for that one. But really, the writers and actors for their dedication, making every show better than the last. Soon I’ll be moving to LA (to be a star) and I have been wrestling with the truth that I won’t have a place like Good Talk. I won’t have the luxury of a leader ship role devoted to comedy fully funded by the institu tion and a full audience of college students. I do have an interview set up to be an ax throwing coach at an ax throwing bar. Never in my life have I thrown an ax, but that’s a problem for future Juli. I will be wandering around craving a space like Good Talk and people like my team of writers, and maybe I’ll never fnd it. Maybe I’ll just become a really famous ax thrower and throw comedy into the garbage much like I would an ax. But I guess I will always have this beautiful moment in time where this got to matter, this got to take over all of my brain space, this made me feel important, this made me feel like I was actually good at making friends. For those at Good Talk —aka bitches who can haaaang— appreciate this. You have so much creative liberty right now and you have people you can trust with seeing your work and making it better. These will be some of the best audiences you have. You will always have a place to stay with another Good Talker in LA or NYC or Athens, Ohio or the lesbian utopia where LJ’s from or wherever. You are hilarious and brilliant. I’m your biggest fan. I will be watching all the episodes you guys make on repeat like a sicko. If you want to apply to Good Talk, make that application so damn good you little freak! Even if you’re not a gay, you can apply! And if you are all like ‘well I didn’t get in’/ or ‘I wanna do sketch but I don’t wanna do Good Talk’, for the love of God, DIY it! Use a friend’s backyard, props you can get for free from Facebook groups, some mics and amps from your friend’s boyfriend Tim, and people you fnd hilarious and brilliant and make that shit happen! Bring the old sketch teams back and see if you can get some school money to book the ‘Sco or Cat. Make a tiktok channel or some thing. You don’t need permission to do what you fnd funny! As I famously say all the time, Just Do It. I guess I wanted to write this 1) out of spite for how many goddamn WOBC and Big Parade tribute pieces we have in here even though Good Talk is a pop culture staple and 2) out of love. I love you Good Talk. If I had a baby, I would love you waaaay more than that slimy fucker.
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4. Pet kittens at Ginkos wondering if your parents still love you. 5. Acquire the most phallic or vaginallooking thing at art rental—wouldn’t this look good here? 6. Visit the koi pond 7. Contract Mono 8. Contract Hand Foot Mouth disease 9. Contract Covid even though you only know, like, two people and they do not go 10.outside.Look at the planets through the obser vatory telescope and try to forget what the ENVS major told you earlier today about how much time we have left. 11. a.) shave your head b.) get a Victorian little boy haircut c.) become a shameful mullet apologist. Choose wisely. Which best complements your facial structure? Go to Jellyfsh parade 13. Go to Big Parade 14. Go to Shit Pit and wish you had gone to Emerson for their bachelors in Come dic Arts because the big city needs to hear 15.you.Go to Splitchers and experience the ecstasy and pangs of forbidden love 16. “Barely pass” a P/NP course for basi cally toddler-level physics, although the professor is way too nice to ever come out and say that. 17. Go to a TIMARA show and get con fused over whether that was the show or if they are having technical issues. 18. Get into Intro to Fiction as a freshman and think that makes you Ernest freaking 19.Hemingway.Gotothe free store. 20. Have your quirky bike made up of rusty junkyard metal stolen. 21. Go to a jazz party. 22. Go to Coverband. 23. Host a radio show at 4 am on a Mon day and play all the black noise your little heart desires. 24. Adopt the word “liminal” into your ev eryday vocabulary even though you have no idea what it means.
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3. Have a staring contest with the albino squirrel as you coolly drink your large iced albino squirrel, licking the blood from your mouth after you bit your tongue to resist asking “what’s in an albino squirrel?” to the dead-eyed barista from your poetry class.
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45. (Not) firted with a professor during a private reading 46. “Borrow” something from Decafe 47. Dress like you just graduated magna cum laude from Clown School 48. Be strange, just generally highly 49.weird.Be the most passionate person you know about something that most people don’t know exists. 50. Realize, despite the chagrin of your stockbroker parents and the rest of this icy, desensitized world, that that is per fectly ok. the celebrations to check in with Couldn’tyourself. have gotten here today without my Dad who made his money really ethi cally by managing that hedge fund. Feeling blessed and well Unfortunatelydressed. my dad came to gradu ation….his new wife, Curtains, said she would’ve really ft in here in the 80s. Werest“yes,GonnalinImprovSure…atObersavedmylife.startsayingand…”totheofmylife.diditJoe.
Excited for this amazing new chapter with all my girls….See y’all in Delaware! Russia House timerememberenvironmentallygraduatingalivestillforshoutsoutforever!toronafcknthisup.madeitouttho.isarestressful,tensefr,totakeawayfromall muddy barefoot sightings in Mudd (seri ously, if you’re going to bring the boys out at least keep them clean)
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27. Take and/or teach an ExCo because if there’s anyone who’s an expert on vintage lunch boxes or the mating habits of pink reptiles it’s you. 28. Do whatever you have to do to get onto the stage at Organ Pump (for the last time, stop asking me about that scar—it’s a 29.birthmark).LiveinKahn or Barrows (read: be a 30.virgin)Move out of Kahn or Barrows (read: lose your virginity) 31. Incessantly, boisterously, vehemently complain about how much you hate New York/LA Obies. 32. Be from New York. 33. Be from LA. 34. Make some sort of flm or art whose homoerotic undertones will be completely lost on your stockbrocker parents (but maybe that’s because no one could hear what the people in the movie were say 35.ing).!!SENIORS ONLY!! Attend Long Island Night, reminisce to when you were a freshman and it wasn’t corrupted by 36.freshmen.Bethat guy who drinks scotch at LIN. 37. Have a receding hairline. 38. Realize your roommate is TikTok 39.famous.Have a severe case of imposter syn drome because you haven’t heard of that band that guy is talking about or read that book that no one really likes. 40. Unironically watched Girls and not exactly regretted it 41. Write for The Grape or Oberlin’s alter native newspaper The Review. 42. Go to Rocky Horror. 43. Have IBS 44. Have your fght or fight triggered by Sixteen Instagram Captions You Can Use for your Graduation Post We freak ing did it!! Can’t wait to continue this adventure we call life with my girls by my side in New York City! I can’t believe it’s fnally over! Thank you to my friends and fam for supporting me so much through my breakup with Brandon. His loss! Next year is gonna kick ass! We made it! Shoutout to Emily, Rebecca, Cade, Eli, Melissa, Trevor, Tina, Lucy, Matt, Gabe, Tricia, Len ny, Mimi, Tinky, Winky, Stinky, Pooby, years were the best of my life and now I am just expected to move on. I don’t want to leave. I wish college was Laughs,later….100forever.Buzzballslove,and a lot of deep talks on the bench outside South Thank<3you to everyone
Comprehensive Oberlin Bucket List Farrell Whether you’re reading this as you drive past the Oberlin sign on your way to or from Brooklyn, here is a comprehensive list of things I feel Obies should do before they die. I mean—leave Oberlin. Keep in mind that I am only a third-year so there are still many Obie phenomena that I remain (blissfully) ignorant to. I’m sorry. I will be fully cor rupted in due time.
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11 I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred I’m too sexy for my [term of endearment] ___________, too sexy for my [term of endear ment] ___________, [term of endearment] ___________’s going [verb] ___________ me. I’m too sexy for my [item of clothing] ___________, too sexy for my [item of clothing] ___________, so sexy it [verb] ___________. And I’m too sexy for [city] ___________, too sexy for [another city] ___________, [and another city] ___________, and [country] ___________. And I’m too sexy for your [event] ___________, too sexy for your [event] ___________, no way I’m [music genre] ___________ [verb ending in -ing] __________. I’m a [profession] ___________, you know what I mean, and I do my [size] ___________[action] ___________ on the [structure] ___________. On the [structure] ___________, on the [structure] ___________, yeah, I do my [size] ___________ [action] ___________ on the [structure]. I’m too sexy for my [mode of transport] ___________, too sexy for my [mode of transport], too sexy by [distance]. And I’m too sexy for my [accessory] ___________, too sexy for my [accessory] ___________, what d’ya think about that? I’m a [profession] ___________, you know what I mean, and I do my [size] ___________ [action] ___________ on the [structure]. On the [structure] ___________, on the [structure] ___________, yeah, I [verb] ___________ my [size] ___________ [body part] ___________ on the [structure] ___________. I’m too sexy for my [animal] ___________, too sexy for my [animal] ___________, poor pussy, poor pussy [animal] ___________. I’m too sexy for my [term of endear ment] ___________, too sexy for my [term of en dearment] ___________, [term of endearment] ___________’s going to [verb] ___________ me. And I’m too sexy for this [unit of media] ___________. Carmen’s Revenge The day had fnally come when all the seniors were to graduate from Oberlin College. They all lined up around the freshly [past tense verb] ___________ lawns of Tappan Square. Suddenly, they heard loud [noun] ___________ from afar, which was their signal to start walking through the [noun] ___________ commemo rating the Boxer Rebellion in China. The frst senior, whose name was [person in the room] ___________ Anderson started walking [adverb]___________ to wards the stage. Suddenly, President Ambar jumped out of the [noun] ___________ and tackled [same name of person] ___________to the ground. She turned to the crowd and announced, “Adam cannot graduate because he stole Yeobie’s [noun] ___________and stomped on his [part of the body]___________!” The crowd gasped and took tomatoes from their pockets and threw them at [same name of person]___________’s [part of the body]. After all the hubbub, the ceremony continued as normal. The commencement speaker was the CEO of [company name] who had just received thet [adjective] ___________ [noun] ___________ award by [celeb rity]___________. Everyone clapped and cheered and threw their [noun] in the air. Congrats grads!
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The Worst Graduation Party Ever Last May, my sister had the most [adjective] graduation part ever. She had f nally fnished her degree in [verb ending in -ing] [abstract noun] and we knew we had to celebrate. At frst, the party was [adjective] But then, [cam pus celebrity] showed up and [past tense verb] everything! [Interjection] Then [past tense verb] the [noun] [past tense verb] on the [plural noun] and even [past tense verb] the char cuterie board. My sister was so [emotion] she [past tense verb] But don’t worry, she’s fne now! After graduation she got a job [verb ending in -ing] for reprehensible I know she’ll always remember her [adjective] party. Here’s hoping mine goes in parents are having such a great time in Oberlin! Last night, I took them to [local store] and they loved it much they [adverb] tense Then, we went to dinner at [local restaurant] and my dad ordered the “[adjective] [noun] What an Oberlin classic! This morning my mom saw [student org] [verb ending in -ing] on Wilder Bowl and introduced herself. Now she’s an honorary member! My parents wanna leave
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OF COURSE! Let’s just say at Urology conferences, my dad is kind of a legend. Dr. Andrew Freedman is Los Angeles’ hottest pediatric urologist to the STARS(‘ kids). And as a famous person he should be guaranteed the same amount of privacy that all celebrities are granted, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NONE! So if you are in the presence of this 5’6 king, you can say whatever the fuck you want. But if you need some pointers, here is a damn fne list:
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4. How Your Pee Burns Or really any sort of urological problem. Does your lower back hurt? Is there a thick slimy goo coming from the tip? Did your boyfriend call your passions your “hobbies?” Run, don’t walk, to tell him all about it. This mensch loves doing pro bono work for absolute strang ers, especially if he is just trying to have a nice dinner with his family. If you have been a patient of his, please go up and ask, “why did you break all those HIPAA laws and tell your daughter every bloody detail of my surgery? She is gossiping like crazy! They don’t even call me Aidan anymore, even my professors call me The Night Pisser!” He thinks he’s not the drama, but he’s totally the drama.
Now that I am a very famous satire writer, you might be wondering, is she a nepotism baby? And bitch
3. What “Mud Rolling Hog” Means Last week my sister tweeted about how my dad’s highschool nickname was “mud rolling hog,” and of course I called her up right away. I was all like “what does that mean??” and she was like “I didn’t ask” and then I said “how the fuck did you not ask?!” She did dis close that there was an attitude of him really embracing the nickname, which could either mean that he could be repressing something (The typical ‘I’ve only cried twice in 30 years’ dad), or he is really just so naive that he was like ‘my friends please keep calling me a mud rolling hog, there is no way this could be antisemetic or body sham ing, this is just a fun and silly name!’ I mean most likely it could be a dig at how much of a neat freak he is, but it is beautiful to think that he was a called a mud rolling hog and his ofspring was called a “tank” and a “dome” by a girl who played soccer in middle school, and how we have both embraced our very weird bodies.
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Editor’s Note: If you see my mom do NOT call her Mrs. Freedman, she HATES that shit. She will roundhouse kick you in the nuts if you pull something like that. Like, she’s still married to the guy and all, but does not want to be associated. Call her Dr.McVeigh, or Karen if she likes you.
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1. A Really Hot Take On Circumcision For someone that’s on some sort of board about circumcision research or some shit, this guy has a pretty lukewarm take on circumcision. He says the basic “I did your brother’s because we are Jews, and that’s what we do” and I know what you’re thinking— SNORE! He says he’s heard it all from Intactivists and the Foreskin H8rs, so why not surprise him with a take totally out of left feld? Hey Man I Heard You Use Rusty Chainsaw When You Do It Thats So Fucked Up!! Or maybe Sir, Can You Confrm or Deny That You Keep The Foreskin And Make Little Fleshy Finger Puppets For Fun? Oh he will love it.
2. His Appearance I have a feeling he may get a fresh haircut for what he likes to call “his big day,” or what experts might refer to as “my graduation.” If you want to make a tiny cranky jew giggle n’ blush, then maybe say something about how good his salt and pepper is looking. If he is really going all out, he may even ditch the classic polo and cargo shorts for a button down and what is basically a long cargo short. Although he would never say it, that is when he is really fshing for compliments like the little attention whore he is.
Q: Rich men want it, poor men have it, and if you eat it you die. What is it?
Q: One of my brothers is telling you that he never bor rowed 20 bucks from me, but I don’t remember if it’s the one who always tells the truth or the one who always lies because they kind of look the same to me. How do you A:tell?It’s OBVIOUSLY the liar, because you DID take 20 bucks from me, Mrog. My mom is always saying that I should be more like my brothers, but it’s like, they’re try ing sooo hard to be quirky, sorry I don’t want just ONE THING to defne me for the rest of my life.
Q: What is brown and has a head and a tail but no legs and is also a penny?
A: I don’t know but I would stay the hell away from that guy!! Freaky leg sitch going on here.
Q: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the middle of the day, and three legs at night?
A: Please please please tell me, I will treat him so good.
A: An octopus, I think. I think I read that somewhere.
A: One horse to ride and one horse to put in paninis. And maybe another horse to hold down the panini press with his hoof because horses are really strong. Oh, and a panini press.
Q: You meet my two brothers in front of some doors. One of them only tells the truth, and the other only tells lies. How do you get them to give back the 20 bucks they owe me?
Q:came.What does Grog want for his birthday?
Q: What is the longest word in the dictionary?
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you laughed at me. You’re going to line up at my door begging me to give you just one riddle, and I’m not even going to give you a little bit of one. Or I’m going to give you a really really hard one and you’ll be screaming and crying because you can’t fgure it out but I won’t give you any hints! I only give hints to people who are NICE TO
Q: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, but there are only three people in the car. How?
Q: What has 13 hearts and no other organs?
A: Hey can you make me a new omelet, there was wayyyy too much mulch in the last one. I want a normal amount of mulch please.
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A: Well . . . okay. Maybe a few more.
Q: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries you of because it’s a towel?
A: A tow–FUCK, I didn’t do that one right. I didn’t say it right. Can I have a do-over? God fucking dammit. Mom was right about me.
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ly at least two, unless you want a little baby omelet, but that can be fun too if that’s the kind of thing you like. If you’re making omelets can I please have mulch in mine.
Q: What goes all around the world while staying in just one corner?
A: I know you’re not really here to answer riddles. I know you’re all just laughing at me, looking to see how Grog’s going to fuck up this time, hahahaha let’s see what kind of riddles Dumbfuck Grog comes up with, hahahaha what a loser. Well, you know what, someday I’m going to be king of writing riddles and you’re all going to be sorry
Q: What is your dad’s phone number?
Lots of trolls love riddles and are really good at giving them. I couldn’t fnd any of those guys, but I’m sure that Grog’s riddles will be great, too.
A: A penny! Wait, fuck. Stupid Grog. Stupid, stupid Grog.
Q: How many eggs do you have to break to make an omelet?
Q: A man rode into town on Monday and then he stayed for three days and then he rode out on Monday, too, what’s up with that?
A: He rode into Three-Day-Week Town. This is a lesson to always ask the name of the town when someone’s tell ing you a riddle or else you’ll look like a stupid idiot with a face full of farts.
A: One of the sons is a robot son.
Q:ME.How are you going to apologize to Grog for being so mean to him?
A: It depends on what size omelet you want but defnite FLIP TO ANSWERS
Q: Will Grog give another riddle to his new best friends?
A: Beat them up
A: Pretty sure it’s my name (Grog), but it’s not like I was gonna read the WHOLE dictionary for ONE riddle.
A: Well . . . maybe you can come to my birthday party? It’s in July. It’s in a cave. It would mean a lot to me if you
This is The Oberlin Grape’s latest and possibly last installment of Ask Dr. Gags, an advice col umn from our resident sexologist Dr. Gagatha McCreampie. If you have a question about sex, intimacy, dating, or just getting over your fear of intimacy right before you graduate college, feel free to reach out to Dr. Gags by emailing thegrape@oberlin.edu Dear Dr. Gags, Thx for all your awesome and graphic advice this semester, it really helped me diversify my sex life. I have one more question for you before we all leave for the summer, and it’s a doozy. So I’m about to graduate in a few days, and I applied for Fulbright for next year. I just realized, while looking over my application, that I accidentally uploaded a nude to the folder I sent them. The weird part is, I got the Fulbright, with the nude included. Should I say something? Did I get the Fullbright because of my hot body??? Help!
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Sincerely, Nudescholar Dearest Nudescholar, Good lord, babycakes! You have surely gotten yourself into a predicament. My frst piece of advice is to have a good laugh about your misfortune. When you really think about it… life is about laughing, drinking, smoking weed, maxing out your ffth husbands credit card, and looking good while doing it! After you have a good chuckle, then you can look at the problem more seriously. While I understand where you are coming from, I think you should take full advantage of your nude body! Sometimes you have to use your big gorgeous tits to your advantage, and that’s just life bebes. Don’t waste time wondering whether your honkers got you the Fullbright, spend time being a hot and successful aca demic. My fnal slice of advice would be to keep that pretty little mouth shut! Try worry ing about something else perhaps. Personally, I worry about remembering to pick up my 5 boy children, Smacky M.C. Sucker, Phalluscity, Ugly Rugly, Meatball, and Gags JR from school every day! At the end of the day, you should put it all in perspective! Use those perky tits while you still can. <3 Love and a few mouth kisses, Dr. Gagatha Dear Dr.HugeGags,fan here! I read all your books like the Bible. I’m graduating this year and moving to the big city. How do I navigate hookup culture if it is not just “let me walk on over at midnight all by myself to your South divided double for a PBR and some dry humping and never speak to you again” anymore? What is it like out there in the real Loveworld?you forever, Big Crapple Dear Big Crapple, First of, this fan behavior is scaring me, you will be hearing from my lawyers about a restraining order. But to get to your question, this campus is particularly sexless and fugly. I have been a visiting professor at pretty much every college in the nation and I can say without a doubt you guys defnitely rank dead last in sex appeal. So my Obie, you have a lot to catch up on. The rest of your peers outside of here will be doing some gymnast shit you have never seen and they will expect you to also know how to cram inside a tiny cofn and take it from the side. You should read up on the following positions: The Key Hole (unlock hole with an assortment of keys), The Cheeseburger Surprise (rub your buns and meat together until you make cheese), The Happy Baby (take a raw bite of their fesh), The Superspeader (purposeful COVID exchange), The Robbery (go through the front door, back door, and window), The Chainsmokers (shove bluetooth speaker into hole and blast “Closer”), The Chamber of Secrets (whisper secrets into the hole), and The Senior Class Yacht Party (don’t come). Also ask yourself how far your legs can go behind your head? How many fsts can you shove in your mouth? How fast can you chuck your own shit? If you don’t know these, you are basically useless in the real world. Good luck virgin!
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