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Finals Fiasco
It’s that time of year. It’s almost time for finals, and I’m reasonably sure no one enjoys taking finals. Sure, they might be varying degrees of bad, but it’s not a good time. If you want to avoid your finals, dear reader, I’m here to help. I have four excellent plans for skipping the end-of-semester gauntlet.
Number Four: Join an internation [...]
Major mind games
Sometimes, you make the wrong choice.
This can happen a lot in college, since a plethora of choices are available, and statistically, you’re going to screw up at least a few of them. A major choice among lesser choices is your major.
Sometimes you actually make fortunate mistakes when you’re entirely confident you know what you’re doing, but [...]
‘Kick-Ass’ reviewers face off
When a movie calls itself “Kick-Ass,” that creates a certain subtle expectation for the film – namely, “Will this movie be kick-ass?” I can positively say that the answer is “yes.”
“Kick-Ass” is about a high school loser and comic book nerd named Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) who decides to become a superhero and fight crime.
He gets a costum [...]
Fantastic Future
I’ve been a bit down lately, given that the semester is starting to reach its end, and things are getting a bit busier. Hanging around in this time just doesn’t seem too rewarding.
Personally, I’m really looking forward to when the future actually gets here. You know, the supremely fantastic future we were promised – with jetpacks, flying car [...]
‘Fab Four’ invades Fort Hays State
This last installment in this season’s Encore series featured a Beatles tribute band known as the Fab Four. I want to get the things about their performance that sucked out of the way before I talk about how awesome the rest of it was.
First, I have to object to the presence of a fake Ed Sullivan. This guy was, by my judgment, a poor Ed Sulli [...]
Mad science
As a college student, you have to give some serious thought to your career. Top of the priority is list is figuring out what a good career is? Well, if you have talents and mental instability for this career, I can tell you the search is over. The ultimate profession is unequivocally a mad scientist.You may be wondering what exactly is so gre [...]
‘Repo Men’ fails to deliver
I had the opportunity to see the movie “Repo Men” this weekend, and I must say, I was disappointed. It had so much going for it, too: Jude Law, a cool plot and nifty taser things.
It’s the future, and this company called the Union sells artificial organs on credit to people. Of course, partly due to aggressive salesmen and partly due to human [...]
The death dilemma
I was recently visiting an elderly relative who is pretty ill, and it sort of put me in a morbid mood, thinking about death and the like. Everyone has to deal with death at some point – usually the death of a relative – and it’s never easy.
Death in general’s a tough topic to tangle with, and it’s one of the major defining characteristics of [...]
Hometown hype
As I was driving back to Hays from my home – since Spring Break was cruelly ending – I was musing on the qualities of my home town. I concluded that my home town is better than Hays for a variety of reasons. And no, one of those reasons is not, “It’s where I’m from, so that makes it great.” My ego’s not that big yet.
My home town has a lot of [...]
‘Groovaloo’ has all the right moves
All right, when I heard the Encore show was going to be part hip-hop, part Stomp, I have to confess I was less than thrilled. I can be euphemistically described as “not a fan of hip-hop,” and we can skip the rude descriptions.
However, Groovaloo exceeded my expectations. Groovaloo was a dance show – mainly freestyle, since that was crucial to [...]
Lrn 2 speak, n00b
I want to address the totality of the denizens of the Internet in this column. That’s a bit wordy, so I’ll just substitute “Internet” instead of totality of the denizens, etc.
Internet, I am going to have to confiscate some things from you. Namely, I wish to confiscate words that you seem to be unable to keep from abusing. Come on, it’s not t [...]
Apocalypse how, exactly?
I’m sure many of you believe that one day, Earth will no longer be the home of the human race. Of course, no one agrees on how that’s going to happen, exactly.
I decided to write about this mainly because of popular demand. Of course, by “popular demand,” I mean that I had no idea what I was going to write about, and some people suggested the [...]
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