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Nattie Olson

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Breathing Out

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As I prepare to stand in the cold air this Sunday and hurl my sneakers into that tree on the west bank, I can’t help but look back rather than forward. People are asking me a lot these days how graduating feels: frightening, exciting, inevitable. The thing is I’m not too sure how to feel about it. I suppose my emotion was something that I thought would just spill out, but it hasn’t yet and …


Dylan and How the World Changed

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The palpable surrealism hung in the thick, warm air inside Northrop on November 4th, like a humid curtain all around us. The unforgettable text message from my sister read: “O got Ohio, it’s pretty much over.” The crowd was giddy with the knowledge that a once-in-a-generation moment was upon us. And we were seeing Bob Dylan!

Dylan, it’s sufficient to say, was Dylan.

dylanA bad-ass fedora …


Had Bush Known How to Read, He Would’ve Banned Books Too

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Recently, Matt Damon compared Gov. Palin and her meteoric rise to fame to a bad Disney movie. It seems that he was more right than he ever could have known: we’ve recently discovered they really are making this movie. One of our writers sat down and recorded a meeting of screenwriters discussing the project.

polarWriter 1: All right settle down, let’s get to work. We open to the Alaskan Wilderness, serene pines, babbling brooks, …


Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire!

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The best lines in the Dark Knight are debatable. Among the heap to choose from, there is “why so serious,” “Then we’ll see how loyal a hungry dog really is,” “whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you . . . stranger,” all spoken in that haunting, sardonic smoker’s groan. Heath Ledger’s Joker has
succeeded in being unforgettable, managing to make Jack Nicholson look boring and silly, and a new twist on a familiar character. The best …


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