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Danica Li on Saturday, May 10, 2008 01:07 pm
Well, you can’t say that Code Pink doesn’t bring the lulz. Far from toning down the crazy in the face of nationally syndicated television coverage, studiously wacky Code Pinkers told reporters from FOXNews.com yesterday that they were hosting a “witches, crone and sirens” day in protest of the war, complete with pointy hats, magical spells and cauldrons of purty flowers.
Our favorite part is the detail about the pro-troops group, Move Forward America, which brought packets of salt and spread them around the recruitment center to, get this, keep their precious Marines safe from the spells. Lunacy is contagious. Didn’t you know? In the meantime, FOX News has trained a 24/7 webcam on the recruitment center storefront, laboring under the delusion, no doubt, that they’ll be able to score some damning evidence of Satanic rituals on tape if they wait long enough.
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Spells Cast at Anti-Marine Rally in California [FOXNews]
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Danica Li on Thursday, May 08, 2008 06:33 pm
Sometimes sacks of money do fall from the sky. Officials from California’s community college adminstration announced the largest philanthropic gift they have ever received in the history of the system’s existence yesterday, and also valiantly restrained from falling all over themselves to kiss Bernard Osher’s feet. Hell. For fifty million dollars, we’d do the same.
Our fair governor was at the news conference too, where he identified a community college education as a very important stepping stone to the land of fame, riches and biceps that no normal person could get two hands around. When asked about the secret to his success, he said that the solution’s obvious: read more »
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Danica Li on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:53 pm
Hundreds of students gathered on Upper Sproul this afternoon in commemoration of Chris Wootton, the graduating senior who was stabbed to death in a drunken altercation last Satuday. Wootton’s brothers from the Sigma Pi fraternity spoke in memory of Wootton. As one, they shouted, “Rock on, Wootton!” at the speech’s end.
Wootton’s girlfriend, Brandy DeOrnellas, also spoke. In a breaking voice, DeOrnellas stressed Wootton’s commitment to religion and love, as well the futility and wastefulness of fighting the people you love. read more »
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Danica Li on Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:45 pm
Today is Free Comic Book Day! From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., comic book stores around the nation–indeed, around the world–will be giving away copies of select titles to lucky store goers. The closest store to campus, Comic Relief, numbers Superman, Hellboy, X-Men and Sonic the Hedgehog among the several dozen comics offered. Did we mention the adorable tiny tot munchkins who can shoot lasers out of their eyes and fly? Whatever your inclination, the website provides a handy list of everything that will be in stock.
Check out the store locator for the United States and Canada, or hop on over to the global store locator, for our international readers. We know you’re out there.
FCBD Store Locator [Free Comic Book Day]
Comic Relief: the Comic Book Store [Comic Relief]
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Danica Li on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 04:38 pm
Not nearly as cuddly as you’d think.
Well, damn. You’d think that those pristine examples of luxury we know as Berkeley’s residential apartment units were actually good for cleanliness and decent standards of living. But according to a Daily Cal article released earlier today, creepy-crawlies have been bedding down in units near Clark Kerr since as early as March, pun intended. read more »
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Danica Li on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 06:15 pm
Admit it: you wouldn’t mind surfing Facebook, Myspace and Livejournal all day and then writing a doorstopper about socialization in the digital age for your doctoral dissertation, earning you a hefty degree and no discernably marketable job skills to go with it. That’s what we call uni, folks.
In the geekiest venture since the invention of fantasy sports, Internet nerds researched and wrote about Internet nerds, and all of them got together and had a party this past week at Stanford University. As far as we can discern from the report, the public forum on “New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth” has the following to tell us about our screensucking, l33tsp33k-ing ways: read more »
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Danica Li on Sunday, April 27, 2008 01:51 pm
Googling yourself isn’t always a pathetic, procrastinatory endeavor. Case in point: the Clog’s just discovered that it was separated at birth. Our twin’s all growed up and moved to Philadelphia, where it covers arts, sports, news and the import of Peruvian llamas for the city newspaper. Hot.
Did our predecessors ever have a debate about the relative merits of “clog” as a noun, versus “clog” as a verb? Because waddaya know, the Philadelphia Clog totally has a more charming header than us.
Oh, and plus five in the brownie points column for the posts about Lost. Some of us are incurable fangirls like that.
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The Clog [Philadelphia City Paper]
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Danica Li on Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:31 pm
The Bay Area National Dance Week kicked off yesterday with conga dancing in downtown San Francisco. We hear the public conga line, which took place in Union Square, wasn’t much of a success — despite the encouragement of an entire brass band and a host of wiggling, jiggling go-go dancers. For a conga line that aspired to be the West Coast’s longest, participation peaked at about a couple dozen dancers. Aw, shucks.
The event still has about 300 other chances to redeem itself. Through this weekend and the next week, about 2,500 dance artists and 20,000 members of the public are expected to participate in 300 events. Reportedly, the list of free classes include “Alexander Technique, capoeira, classical Indian dance, contra dance, embodied presence, Feldenkrais, hip-hop, hula, improvisational dance, salsa, same-sex partner dancing, tango, tap and tribal belly dance.” For those in your general vicinity, check out the list after the jump. read more »
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Danica Li on Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:07 am
Two thousand square feet of Grateful Dead memorabilia is a lot of memorabilia, and the living Grateful Dead members have decided to donate all of it–30 years worth of merchandise, stage backdrops, vinyl albums, groupie lingerie and life-size prop skeletons–to UC Santa Cruz.
Berkeley and Stanford both played grabby hands for the archive, because founder Phil Lesh attended Cal when he was a young ‘un and his progeny are yucking it up at Stanford now. These are entirely legitimate claims! But the Dead chose UC Santa Cruz because “the ethos of the band, the whole idea of community sharing, is really well matched with the campus … We also have this whole side that’s concerned with social justice and tolerance and community spirit.” Gee. What other campus does that remind you of?
Administrators have dubbed the archive’s advisory board Slugs & Roses, which, besides sounding like a delightful reason to barricade all entrances and dial the exterminator in a fit of terrified hysterics, is also a mix-and-match representation of Santa Cruz’s mascot and the Dead’s iconic rose art. What? No one likes slugs.
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Grateful Dead archives going to UC Santa Cruz [SF Chron]
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Danica Li on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:15 pm
The semester’s winding down, and you’re likely sick of anything that doesn’t involve watching tired old television reruns until your brains leak out your ears. But in case bumming around in that glamorous pink sweatshirt isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, the Cal Career Center is hosting its annual Just in Time Job Fair this week at the Pauley Ballroom. Apr. 23 features science and engineering opportunities, while Apr. 24 will find the ballroom host to business companies and public service providers, in addition to a number of holdovers from the previous day.
Possible future employers include IBM, Microsoft, Nike China, PG&E and a handful of investment groups, but if making scads of money on Wall Street and retiring to frolic comfortably ever after in Hawaii isn’t your idea of a life well lived, consider traveling to save humanity in Africa with the Peace Corps, or rigging George Clooney’s car with the CIA as a foreign intelligence operative. read more »
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