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Nattie Olson

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Breathing Out

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

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

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!

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 …