Monday, January 21, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Top Five Tuesday:
Making Lists Like Mad Crazy
Day Two of new features brings us to Top Five Tuesday, complete with a nifty graphic by our good friend Josh. Since Ryan is writing this week's list, I have no idea WTF he is going to write about! Maybe Top Five reasons why Tuesdays are fun for making lists! That would be silly!!!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Mixtape Monday:
Songs That Made Me Feel Like a Jerk
So we're starting a new feature here on the site. It's called Mixtape Monday, and it's an opportunity for us to bring you music. We'll pick a new topic each week. This week it's Songs I Used to Hate But Which I Now Love.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Column:
My Little Corner of the World
“You feel like the unappreciated scholar, so you shit on those who know less than you.” "No." "Which is everyone." "Yes."
By Nicole Pope
In college I wrote a weekly column for the school paper called “Common Cents.” My beat was to write about, as you might guess, consumer issues. I was less than thrilled with this assignment, though I was able to write about everything from used CDs to thongs to psychics. (Incidentally, I recently Googled my name and found the aforementioned thong story still floating around the net. Good to know I’ve had such an everlasting presence in the world of journalism.)
Anyway, what I learned from having this weekly column was that no matter the topic, I loved inhabiting my own little space in the newspaper each week. And ever since I started writing for this blog, I’ve dreamt of my own column. Thanks to the magic of positive thinking and a nifty graphic, I have succeeded. Way to go, me.
So now I can say goodbye to consumer issues – though a few might come up from time to time. These days I spend much of my time listening to music. Much too much of my time, I’d say. So I might as well keep writing about it, right? Recently I read someone saying blogging is the ultimate act of narcissism: to think people would care to read your inner thoughts and musings. Well, let’s just put narcissist on the list of Nicole’s shortcomings. I’m sure I’ll let you in on a few more in time.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Now For the Issue That Really Matters
When a Washington Times reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino what she thought about Radiohead's new album last October, she replied, "I don't even know what that is. Is that a band?" To her credit, I'm not sure why someone would ask her such a question (even if, as P4K pointed out, she was twenty-one when Pablo Honey was released). Ultimately I don't know which she should get more flak over: being clueless about Radiohead, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ahem.
In any event, with the Iowa Caucus tonight, I've been thinking again about the intersection of music and politics. Take those videos of former Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee playing bass, for instance. Or the candidates ever-evolving campaign music. If you're like me and believe that musical preference can tell you a lot about someone, consider the following:
I found an article from an apparently satirical news site stating that Mitt Romney's official campaign song was -- wait for it -- "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung. I admit, I believed this for the better part of a minute. Isn't that sad? (Not so much for me, but for Mr. Romney.) If anyone can find out what his real campaign song is, please let me know. Of course, after today's caucus, this might just be a moot point.
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