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Netflix: A Dash of Holiday Cheer

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2009 4 Comments

Storm’s blowing in, finals are blowing over, and Bwog movie maven Mark Hay has a few cinematic choices to accompany these first flakes of snow. Something about the vintage and the slightly outdated social norms of these films make them an endearing accompaniment to any night of cocoa and candy canes. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) […]

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It’s Snowing!

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2009 10 Comments

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For Those Too Posh for the Subway

By Bwog Staff on Dec 19, 2009 15 Comments

While we eagerly anticipate the dandruff of the gods this evening, it’s time for our semi-annual CarSplit PSA. Started by a SEAS ’06er, Carsplit uses cool computery things to help you share cabs with other students you don’t know on the way to the airport this winter break. It normally costs about $45 to get […]

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Might Be Time To Break Out Your Rock Salt

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 20 Comments

How much snow will we see this weekend? Well, Bwog’s crack meteorology team has spent most of the day keeping an eye on the multiple forecasts pouring out of the National Weather Service, Accuweather, and Weather Underground computer models, and they report that the predicted amounts of snowfall keep climbing. What was a 1 to […]

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Postcrypt Coffeehouse Faces The War on Fun

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 59 Comments

Since its founding in 1964 by then-assistant chaplain Rev. John Cannon, Postcrypt Coffeehouse has remained “among a handful of really well run college venues of its kind.” Popular within the folk community both for the ridiculously cool space in St. Paul’s basement, and the dedicated crowds, the coffeehouse has hosted well-known artists such as Jeff […]

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Done With Exams? Play Secretary!

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 3 Comments

Hartley-Wallach overlord Scott Helfrich has a job for you today: Are you done with finals and interested in making some extra cash tomorrow morning? Are you a fast, accurate typist with an eye to perfection? If you are done with finals (because this should not be a distraction) and are available to type highlighted sections […]

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Eat-a-de Free Pizza

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 1 Comments

CC 2011 tells Bwog that they’ll be providing “40 pies of pizza from V&Ts starting at 1:00pm in the Broadway/Hogan first floor lounge. We’re celebrating our not having to take either the Lit Hum or CC exam!” Celebrate away, we say!

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Read the Large Print

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 17 Comments

Selling unwanted items via flyers is hard enough. It’s even harder when “commenters” on said flyers don’t actually read the notice. See here for more details. Photo by HEH.

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Bwoglines: Let It Snow!

By Bwog Staff on Dec 18, 2009 2 Comments

JTS held a screening and panel discussion of “Inglourious Basterds” yesterday. Sample quote: “Wow, that was fun…I’m not supposed to feel that way, I know — I’m Jewish.” (Times) Three family members were killed by a career criminal in an Upper West Side apartment; the attacker then fell to his death while trying to escape. […]

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Not-So-Spontaneous Dancing!

By Bwog Staff on Dec 17, 2009 22 Comments

Multiple reports from the 209 front tell Bwog that about 10-30 people just entered 209 and played “YMCA.” A spate of vicious dancing ensued. Points to the merry pranksters for getting people to play along, with only a few points subtracted for being decked out in what several tipsters called “80s gear” and spandex. Unfortunately, […]

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SocketHop: Crafting a Bigger Brother

By Bwog Staff on Dec 17, 2009 4 Comments

A proposed secret international treaty would greatly heighten penalties for copyright infringement, some threatening civil liberties. SocketHop, the technology decoder for the literature-minded, takes a look. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced one year ago that the music industry would stop its broad lawsuits against alleged file sharers. Since about 2003, […]

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Guide to the (Last) Weekend

By Bwog Staff on Dec 17, 2009 1 Comments

You’ve been camping in Butler and watching YouTube videos for three days studying hard! You deserve a break! Friday Gerhard Richter – considered one of the saviors of contemporary painting, this German artist’s paintings are on show until January 8th. 10am – 6pm, Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W57th St FREE Blip Festival – celebrating chip […]

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Bwoglines: Concerning Times

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heartfelt concern
I think I need a ginger ale
seriously how did we let this dennis rodman thing happen
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Man Shot on 123rd and Amsterdam

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crime
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Dear Bwog: Awkward Encounters

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awkward oyster
bwog is so flattered to be compared to obi-wan kenobi
bwog is social occasionally
bwog wears a mask
dear bwog
dear strugglebus
mole-people need love too!
you are the pearl in the awkward oyster

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Calm Down About The East Asian Library

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kent
nick miller is bwog's spirit animal
reactive minds
uris
we won't say anything if you sit at those tables though. solidarity.
yeah it's that place in kent
you can still print 10 copies of your 12 page fiction workshop story don't worry

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Opening Remarks: General Sassiness

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getting burned hard in CS
hey cmon we re-appropriated the size matters joke first
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no more mr nice guy
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professors say the craziest shit
promises against nudity must be a new one in the professor handbook

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John Jay Got A Makeover

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but has the food improved to match?
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shit just got shiny
we always just miss the renovations...
we wonder how ferris is feeling about all of this
while you were away

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Core Tech Genius: Seriously, Get Paid

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bwog is lionshare sometimes
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Bwoglines: Mixed Bag

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how bout them yankees
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nothing is safe
roar lion roar
serious stuff
when things are kind of horrifying it's good to know that katy perry is around to release a stupid video

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