If Obama Loses the Election…
- I will most likely weep
- I will attempt to riot in Kogan and fail
- I will insult the first person I see celebrating
- I will be solidified in my opinion that there is no god
- I will continue to weep for a few days
- I will finally tell my barber to “go fuck himself” when he reminds me that Obama is a secret Muslim Jeremiah Wright supporter
- I will challenge every Young America Foundation member to an arm wrestling match
- I will never stop crying
I realized how much of my own personal energy and hope I’ve invested into November 4th, and what a terrible moment it will be if B. Hussein loses. I’ve decided to stop pretending that I don’t want this blog to promote Obama. I will be also be reporting on the absurdities of the POST-RATIONAL McCain campaign in the coming weeks.
Come canvass this Saturday in Virginia. 10:30am at the Foggy Bottom metro.
Come and I won’t cry.
The Internet is Terrifying
While doing research for another post, I stumbled upon the most frightening thing I’ve ever found on the internet. Kim’s House of Dolls is a blog based around taking pictures of dolls around the country. And she’s close by.
She has written posts continually for over two years now and I haven’t been able to find any comments. This leads me to believe Kim is doing this entirely for her own amusement. That’s fine, but also completely terrifying. This is a doll in front of the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.
Here are two dolls in front of Albert Einstein.
However, all of this photos hold no water compared to her doll-based 9/11 tribute. Yes. A doll-based 9/11 tribute. I hope you enjoy.
G-Scene Briefly Sabotaged!
Amanda Hess, a GW English alum, posted this article on Washington City Paper’s The Sexist blog.
It looks like the G-Scene was accidental host to a post that outright mocked them.
Read the article.
Long time ago (8/1), GWPatriot’s Patty J Ford wrote a post called “What Keeps Us From Being A Great University?”.
Short time ago (9/2), G-Scene copy-paste-posted Patrick’s article on their blog. Since they copy-paste-posted, I figured I might as well take a screenshot of their post to show y’alls. Here is the G-Sceneseseses’s pseudo-post:
“This type of garbage” refers to Inside GW, which appears to be nothing more than a better designed, differently misogynist — it’s written by a female — version of G-Scene. Were these blog names chosen only because they are absurdly easy to jam into an innuendo?
Edit: Inside GW is not written by a female. Patty J Ford actually wrote this article about the dude who wrote it. I don’t think the post is very funny and I am anti-ad hominem and I don’t want this to become some sort of lame personal attack situation. The only reason I even posted any of this is because the City Paper article reminded me that G-Scene existed, so I saw they had misattributed our blog’s name to one of Patty J Ford’s posts on the Patriot.
Given the sheer heft of their lameness, I can’t decide if I want to link people to Inside GW or G-Scene, but since G-Scene’s URL is neither http://www.gscene.com/ or http://www.g-scene.com/ — & at least one of those might draw some weird looks in Gelman or the middle of class — here are the links:
G-Scene (http://gwscene.com/)
Inside GW (http://insidegw.com/)
Regarding Patrick’s point that these kind of websites are harbingers of the GWapocalypse (Gwa-pock-a-lips) doesn’t hold water for me. Whatever these people are extolling is perpetually disippating: it doesn’t maintain itself.
Round Up
- Hockey Moms for Truth (featuring receSs alumni Emily Axford) [YouTube]
- GScene gets real (negative) press, but where’s our article City Paper!? [City Paper]
- Jon Foox knows too much about sports. [Sports!]
- Obama Deletes Another Unread MoveOn.org E-Mail. [TheOnion]
- GWStatesman to be GW’s progressive blog. We hope they like minorities more than the Patriot. [GWStatesman]
- GW Discourse also revamps their political blog. [GWDiscourse]
- Bobby Moynihan’s SNL Debut. [UCBComedy]
- Sen. Dobson scarcely live-blogs the first SA Meeting of the year. [InsideTheSA]
- Vague headline catches attention. [Hatchet]
Fire at the Allen Lee?
I arrived back from a trip to New York to the sound of myriad sirens. When I rounded the corner, I saw 3 firetrucks and an ambulance, firemen rushing inside.
Here are the pictures:
The firetrucks started to leave after about 45 minutes.
Your Weekend: Bobby Moynihan Edition
Things to do before, during and after talking to people about how great the newest SNL castmember is this weekend:
Friday, September 12:
- Generic Theatre Company has it’s 24 Hour Play at 9pm. Meet outside Lisner Downstage and then write, act and direct a series of plays in 24 hours. [Facebook Event]
- The Black Student Union has ALL YOU CAN EAT Crepeaway starting at 8pm in Kogan Plaza.
- The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has a Gaming All-Nighter starting at 9pm in the Basement of 2109 F St. [Facebook Event]
- The new Coen brothers film Burn After Reading opens tonight, and is playing in Georgetown.
Saturday, September 13:
- Students for Barack Obama are canvassing in Virginia to turn the state blue. If you’re interested in canvassing or phone banking, meet at the metro at 10:30am. [Facebook Event]
- GW Ballroom is hosting Salsa Night at 8pm in the Grand Ballroom. Lessons and performances will be provided.
- Maryland Renaissance Fair takes plays all day! FUCK YEAH! [RennFest.com]
- If you think our blog sucks and enjoy wasting trees, check out the Hatchet Fall Open House at 1pm, at 2140 G St. [Facebook Event]
- Bobby Moynihan joins the cast of SNL in the season premiere tonight at 11:30pm on NBC. Hosted by Michael Phelps. Musical Guest Lil Wayne.
Sunday, September 14:
- All You Can Eat Breakfast at 10am in the Ames Dining Room at the Vern.
9/11 at GW
Just a quick note on the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
As my class spoke of the courage of America’s recovery after 9/11, and how the nation bonded together to keep the country moving, I looked to the person sitting next to me. The girl was completely unaware of the conversation going on, but was instead clicking through pictures from last weekend’s ironic 80s party.
Buff and Blue. These colors don’t run.
Vishal Responds to Scandal, Reporting
In his first post on his Colonialist sub-blog “State of the Uni,” Vishal directly addressed allegations about his administration inappropriately using student funds. He also calls out “campus media,” who we can assume to mean The Hatchet, for harassing him and his staff.
It’s an excellent first post and is a direct response to the claims made on the Inside The SA blog, and most likely in Thursday’s Hatchet. Check it out here. It’s exactly the type of post we were hoping Vishal would be bringing to the Colonialist.
I’d also like to make it clear that we have no problem disagreeing with Vishal if he’s wrong on an issue. Until it’s proven otherwise, it looks like he was in the right here.
Please direct all comments on the matter to his post, rather than this one.
The Sustainability of GW’s Eco Challenge
If you have watched yourself turn on a light recently, you have seen a sticker announcing that GW has launched the “Eco-Challenge!!!!!!” The sentiment behind GW’s Eco-Challenge is inspiring, and it’s good to see that the University is taking steps to improve its horrendous record. GW describes the program like this:
The Eco-Challenge is a friendly competition among residence halls to determine which hall can conserve the most water and electricity throughout the academic year.
While it’s great to see that our school is taking steps to reduce it’s Foggy Bottom sized footprint, there are also some serious flaws with what is happening. The only real tangible thing I have noticed is the introduction of recycling bins on most corners. What’s frightening is that the day the bins appeared, all of them were adorned with three helium filled balloons exclaiming “GW ECO-CHALLENGE!” Yes, those harmless little advertisements that fly into the atmosphere and get choked on by ducks and children and mother earth. Our school is being dumb about things.
Here are a few steps GW can take to not be so dumb about things:
- Don’t attach balloons anywhere.
- Stop wasting paper by printing light-switch stickers and graphs with out proper units. You can email that shit.
- Stop making massive amounts of t-shirts for green move in. We don’t need them.
- Encourage businesses on GW-owned property to stop using and distributing plastic bags.
- Understand that we want to help. Not everything needs to be a beautifully designed advertising bonanza.
Keep your chin up GW. You are on the right path. Just think about sustainability as an actual obligation and not a detriment to admissions.
And the environmental holocaust ain’t so bad anyways. I loved Wall-E!
Round Up
Welcome to the first Round Up of the school year. Don’t fuck this one up, Travis.
- Pentagon to unveil 9/11 Memorial. [Reuters]
- Common phrase secretly sexist. [MSNBC]
- TKE Rush will feature awkward sober conversations. [Hatchet]
- Students for Barack Obama Kick Off event. [Facebook]
- Funniest man in New York joins SNL. [HuffPo]
- Find out the truth about Obama. [WhoIsTheRealObama.com]
- Cat eats spaghetti on television. [YouTube]
- Pop or Soda: Debate Endgame. [StrangeMaps]
LATE EDIT: Amazing new Ben Folds video directed by Tim and Eric. [YouTube]
