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I. INVOCATION
Dearest Senior Class of 2008,
As you are already well aware, May is rapidly approaching and much of the anxiety regarding post-college life that was safely stewing at the recesses of our minds is about to manifest itself, plump and ugly, in our newly re-christened adulthood.
The age we are entering headfirst is certainly an exciting …
There is much to lament – and praise – in the fusion of social networking with online social networking. Like a newspaper in a bathroom stall, or a simple handshake, however, the conquest of digital technology has its limits, and small niches considered “ways of the old” remain, at least for now, stubbornly irreplaceable.
Enter Mayday …
Coffman Union Protest
When discussing Minneapolis’s music scene, its eclectic makeup is never in doubt. Within the scene, however, demarcated by genre or style, there exist real strengths and real weaknesses. It is perhaps Minneapolis’s lonely location between coastal music capitals that accounts for the lack of a unified style, opening the field for artists with a wide array of influences. However, it is the …
In the debate over what the apocalypse will consist of, I side with film director Richard Kelly over Al Gore, if only because I’d rather see the species implode through a combination of hyper-pervasive entertainment, mad scientists, and interfering parallel universes – à la Southland Tales – than by hearing until death the latest measurement of …
While separation of vocalist and band usually indicates a level of pomposity, Thao with the Get Down, Stay Down is one of the few legitimate exceptions. …
A few hundred yards off the eastern shore and onto the frozen Medicine Lake lies a village of sorts. In a way, this village resembles the ice fishing communities that often dot the lakes during the winter. Instead of grime-covered trucks, quasi-public urination, and Coors Light cans, there are art car taxis, receptacles for empty beers, and one giant …