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Still in the election spirit? Well, you don't have to wait until 2010 to cast another ballot. Elections for the Philadelphia District Attorney are on May 19, and the Penn Democrats are already gearing up. Tonight, PennDems are meeting to elect a candidate to endorse. Check them out at 7 P.M. in 370 Huntsman and, after the jump, check out the platforms of the five candidates (thanks, PennDems website!)
To brighten up your Thursday, enjoy this thugged-out version of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. It kind of hangs Will Smith and West Philly out to dry, but we like it anyway.
We just stumbled upon this mini-story from Nicholas Kristof, who spoke in Huntsman this week. He writes that he's "really impressed" by Penn students' "awesome" P2P charity sites. Good going, Quakers!
What is orangefoot, you ask?
More concert news: It's like Christmas in February! For Girl Talk fans, at least. The rumors are true, people. Master of mashups Girl Talk will be coming to Penn on Saturday, February 28. He's being brought here by a motley combination indeed--Theos, Beta, and M.U.S.I.C.--and tickets are currently on sale. Look on Locust Walk for (if there is any justice in the world) the long, long lines that are sure to form between noon and 3PM. And please, someone needs to tell us what M.U.S.I.C. is.
Well, it seems that members of our fair blogosphere are descending upon Penn this week. First Christian Lander, now Nadine Haobsh! Nadine is a personal girl-crush of mine, and will be visiting the Penn Bookstore tomorrow at 2PM to promote her new novel, Beauty Confidential. See below for Nadine's bio (taken from her site, Jolie Nadine).
In light of Christian Lander's visit to Penn this evening, we at UTB HQ thought we might honor him by beating him at his own game. Lander is the founder of the wildly popular blog Stuff White People Like, and he's currently on a promo tour for his eponymous book. As such, here is our list of Stuff Penn People Like! Fairly self-explanitory
The UA is holding its semi-annual activities fair this Sunday. Come one, come all to see every group on campus squeezed into Houston Hall! And if you want to get involved with 34th Street (or our parent publication, the DP), come check us out! The fair will go from 12-4 PM. There will, of course, be other organizations trying to lure you in as well, just in case you feel the need to subscibe to superfluous listservs. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Quakers, rejoice - you can now use the above phrase for someone other than, well, Dean Lee Stetson. According to our very own Philadelphia Inquirer, Charles Isdell, Jr., longtime director of the Philadelphia airport, has announced his sudden retirement. This resignation comes on the heels of a Fox News investigation that revealed Isdell's residence in - gasp! - New Jersey. Apparently, employees of the city are required to live in the city, so Isdell's Cherry Hill pad didn't fly with Mayor Nutter. Although Isdell did improve Philly's customer service ratings (according to J.D. Power and Associates, at least), here's hoping his successor will make sure that our flights actually leave on time.
First Theta, then Ari, now MTV?
Burger King is all about having it your way spray: the hamburger chain just debuted a line of cologne. I KID YOU NOT, PEOPLE. It's available online and at Ricky's NYC, for a mere $4. (Coming soon to Douglas Cosmetics? We can only hope.) I implore you to check out its sensual website, firemeetsdesire.com. The fragrance is being marketed as "the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat." First Penn State perfume, now this... honestly, what's next?!
Bernie Madoff, who looks to us like a nice, old Jewish guy, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly running a $50 million Ponzi scheme, which involves using money from new investors to pay old investors absurd dividends. For much of his career, Madoff has been perpetuating this cycle. And now--here's the really fun part!--his sons have tipped off the SEC and FBI about Daddy Madoff's wrongdoings.
Here at UTB, we've been suffering from a collective denial of the upcoming end of the semester. It seems that only mere days ago we were a just a fledgling baby blog, with only a handful of readers (mostly our parents).
ARRESTED. DEVELOPMENT. MOVIE. WILL. HAPPEN. I can't even write about this. I just cannot verbalize my excitement. Any thoughts on the cast member who's not signed on to the big-screen adaptation? My bets are on Michael Cera.
Breaking news! People magazine has named Hugh Jackman 2008's Sexiest Man Alive. The Australia star, who is apparently "all scruff and biceps," beat out UTB's personal choice (Rahm Emanuel, obvi) for the coveted title.
I LOVE THIS. Little else needs to be said.
In September, while doing my routine Facebook stalking one night, I was struck by an ad that appeared on the sidebar. The ad was for something called "The Lazy Grocer"--being one of those two thing (lazy, not a grocer, in case you were unsure), I decided to click and see what was going on; ostensibly, some Penn kids decided to start a late-night FroGro delivery service. When I checked the site, it had some pretty impressive Flash graphics and not much actual content--or any delivery options. I brushed the business off as a failed Marketing/Management project and pretty much forgot about it. However, this evening I received an email informing me that the Lazy Grocer was open for business!
The new CVS, located in the Radian between 39th and 40th Streets on Walnut, is finally open! No longer will off-campus-dwellers be forced to trek to 34th and Walnut to get their pharmacy fix. To be honest, I didn't really believe that it would ever open, along the same lines as the alleged Capogiro and Steven Starr restaurants that the Radian was allegedly going to house.
Okay, this was clearly bound to happen. Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon is dating Kim Kardashian's brother Rob, and it's pretty clear that fame-whoring, and whoring in general, run in that family. Pictures of Bailon--which were, of course, ostensibly intended for Rob's eyes only--have just hit the Internet.