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Snob Spotter's Guide

I just saw this on the website, Paris Hotel Boutique, which is a vintage shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've never read the book, but I can tell you the first entry:

"Pays $120 for a book entitled The Snob Spotter's Guide from a vintage shop called the Paris Hotel Boutique located in the San Francisco Bay Area."

Brideshead

Two things you need to know about Evelyn Waugh's book, Brideshead Revisited.

One: In England, Evelyn can be a boy name.

Two: "Brideshead" is both the name of a place and the name of a person.

Conclusion: There is some serious untapped, pornographic potential at work here, and it needs to be...tapped.

Internships

So, the other day at three, I got a phone call from an unknown number. It went-a something like this:

BRRRRRING.

ME: Hello?

BIDDY: Hello, may I speak to Elizabeth?

ME: Speaking.

BIDDY: Hi, I'm calling from [place of internship] to remind you to bring your lunch on June 1st for orientation.

ME: ...Um, OK.

BIDDY: Great. Do you have any other questions for me?

ME: I don't think so.

BIDDY: OK, great. Bye!

ME: Le wha?

Thanks for notifying me two weeks in advance.

Sherlock Holmes

DO ME ON IT.

Star Trek

In theory, reading week is the time of year when you build a fort out of all the books you were supposed to read during the semester, and slowly dig yourself out. In practice, you leave those books where they belong--in the library--and follow any whim that takes you away from college.

For example, I just got back from the Cinema 7. Ladies and gentlemen, Star Trek might be the greatest movie ever. I went with three of my similarly non-Star-Trek-watching friends, and it was amazing. It was one of those times when everyone in the movie theater gets really into the experience, and by the end we're all cheering for the Enterprise like crazy grandmas yelling at the TV.

Also: Zachary Quinto is unreasonably hot as Spock. It makes no sense that Spock should be this hot.

Mashups

I love mashups. I also might be a tool, but that is essentially irrelevant to our discussion. How could you say no to Kayne West AND Beethoven's Fifth?

In my opinion, DJ Earworm makes the best mashups, though of course Girl Talk is also up there. The MTV Mashups are what got me into mashups in the first place, along with Numb/Encore and the illustrious Grey Album. Maybe this is dating me, but Bittersweet Dirt off Your Shoulder is my freshman year. Mashuptown occasionally has some gems, but mostly...not so much, but it did give me How Six Songs Collide, which is noice. None of this is news to people who actually know anything about music (i.e. not me), but they are still awesome. Time cannot stop the MASHUP.