Bwog correspondent Addison Anderson was there.  I couldn’t stay for the whole thing, but Dean Quigley read an (the best) excerpt from Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” for about fifteen minutes to a rapt audience, and repeatedly told us to keep an eye out for friendly ghosts of Columbia’s past.  Then some administrators […]

Free chestnuts, hot cocoa, holiday cheer and school spirit at the tree lighting outside on College Walk in 35 minutes! Update 6:21 PM: It’s dark now, and there are a lot of people milling around with cups of scalding hot chocolate, mobbing tables of marshmallows while holiday a capella is broadcast on loudspeakers (Bwog almost […]

Tomorrow night, Enya, X-tina, and a small army of tourists will converge on Rockefeller Plaza to watch Al Roker waste a lot of electricity and, as usual, freeze his ass off. Though we mildly recommend that everyone to go watch in person, NBC has been gracious enough to shift their blockbuster Wednesday line-up to make […]

Bwog is ready for vacation. And after Thanksgiving, it’s a race to the finish–might as well start buying your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa presents now, because you’re not going to have time in three weeks. Let the season begin! – Learning experiences that will be funny in 20 years – Great men come, go, salvage Columbia’s honor, wish […]