Stories

Teaching first-graders to spell, grocery lists, reminders to throw the trash out- these were the uses for magnetic alphabet letters when I was a kid. Somewhere around age 13 my friends and I turned to trying to spell "penis" even though the only letters left were W, R, M, and a number 4 (how'd that …

Memorial Day is frequently considered the start of Summer. Finally May Gray has ended, and assuming your state doesn't suck and have to deal with June Gloom, it's sunshine and bathing suits from here until September. Guess what that means, ladies and gentlemen: time to slim down for Summer! The obvious way to lose a …

I was never really a fan of Shrek. I mean, sure it had some funny parts, and any movie with a character named "Puss" is gonna make me laugh like a pre-pubescent boy, but as a whole, the Shrek trilogy (four-logy?) just was a big barrel of blah in my book. And now, there is …

Oh, America. Always coming up with easier, more awful ways to do things that are already easy and also awful. Hooray! Vodka eyeballing is the newest, hottest fad to hit the college crowd, and it's exactly what you think it is: Pouring Vodka Into Your Eyeball! I mean, I suppose it's only logical, right? Like, …

I remember the first time I read the Harry Potter series when I was about 11. The books were so engrossing and well-written that for a short period of time (8 or so more years) all I wished was that I too could be a wizard. Magical powers, a school of witchcraft, unicorns and centaurs... …

I am, as you know, completely unqualified to discuss anything having to do with Lost, the monumental ABC show that ended this... what... Sunday? I don't even know. However, I do enjoy wondering what stars of highly-popular and cult-followed programs will do once they move on. Will they go the Danica McKeller of The Wonder …

Talk about party poopers. A Chinese computer science professor was recently arrested and jailed for 3 and a half years for admitting to holding orgies, or as he called them, "swinging games," which sounds more like youth baseball camp if you ask me, but hey, I guess I don't know that much about orgies. 53-year-old …

I remember May 21st vividly. Opened my laptop, connected it to my monitor, double clicked on Chrome (Chrome FTW!) and BAM POOF ZING, there it was. Google Pac-Man. I managed to avoid procrastinating on BCU material for most of the morning, until I got sleepy and got a coffee and clicked home again. This is …

MySpace brought us a lot of awesome things. A way to avoid homework for 6 hours, rediscovering why you hated that kid in elementary school, and stalking ex-boyfriends while silently hating everything about them are a few of my favorites. However, as Facebook expanded from just the college crowd to businesses and eventually anyone with …