I was passing through Walmart on a small grocery run last weekend and upon entering, I noticed how many prepackaged children’s costumes were hung up near the front. I’d noticed something similar when I was passing through Kohl’s not too long before that. What happened to creativity on Halloween? As we’ve grown older, it seems...
I am one of the 99 percent, yet I’m not. The 99 percent, as you’ve no doubt heard, is a rallying cry of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their movement in general. It refers to the disparity of wealth between the wealthy 1 percent and the suffering 99 percent, as well as the United...
While perusing last Friday’s issue of Pipe Dream, I found a story below the fold that beckoned me. Oddly enough, the words “undie run” were in the headline. I read on for some clarification and recalled that I had heard about it in previous weeks through an invite on Facebook. When I initially received the...
About a week ago, I learned what it really means to be a benefit to the community, no thanks in part to the rain. The torrential downpour last Wednesday was the worst I can recall from my years here. The minor rain from the previous day was in no way comparable to what was coming...
Somehow, and I don’t know how I got here, but it is the beginning of the end. Actually, it’s not THE beginning of THE end, but more of A beginning of AN end. My college career is slowly waning down a metaphorical road, where a black sign with orange LED lights displays the message, “What...
Once more, the noble and diligent youth of ye olde Binghamton University set out on another week-long quest for Camelot … oh, who am I kidding? Diligence goes out the window on break! And Camelot? As if! Home is the closest thing, nowadays! Just take a look at your loyal writer. He returned home with...
When you take a look at a local or national newspaper or flip on the news — CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or the news channel of your choice — do you realize how negative and depressing all the recent news has been? There have been months of violent uprisings in the the Middle East that...
In the weeks leading up to the annual Academy Awards, there was a slight uproar online as to the fact that Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood movie mogul, wanted the now-Academy Award-winning Best Picture “The King’s Speech” to be edited down to lower the rating from an R to a PG-13. His reasoning was financially driven, primarily...
This past Sunday, I did something I rarely do. I watched the Grammys. Yes, I’ll admit that I’m not incredibly tuned in to modern pop music, but I did recognize some names, like the ever-so-popular Lady Gaga, the white misogynist rapper Eminem and the screaming-tweens’ heartthrob Justin Bieber. The inner (and more-so outer) indie fan...
SUNDAY — I’m writing this column on the day of the big game, it’s the early afternoon to be exact. Ah, the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events of the year. People across the country (and the world apparently), regardless of whether or not they’re actually fans of the sport, gather around televisions...
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