We Made You Mixtape!

Hello my fello gravy afionados! Magda and I have collaborated to put a mixtape online for you. Its kind of bluegrassy-americana-ish stuff for the most part and all of it is dance(or jig)able, though some parts of some of the songs are not. Its very good gettin'-stuff-done music. My esteemed colleague may elaborate further. She picked out six of the songs, and so did I, and then I moooshed 'em all together and voila. Please give it a listen, and perhaps create one yourself. Let us know which songs you dig the most. There is another one in the pipes. Good luck gettin' through finals everybody! [Or for Pat, Ian, and Cynda: HAHAHAHAHAHA enjoy another month and a half suckers]



a benandmagda joint production all copyrights reserved and shit

hey you know what would be really fun you don't but i do it would be dressing up pat like waldo and playing where's pattycakes? at all kinds of different portlandish events and the beach and stuff yep

Believe it or not, concrete floats (kinda)

Civil engineering students have this yearly ritual. It involves 6 months of blood, sweat, tears, and epoxy as well as a weekend long gathering known as the American Society of Civil Engineers Great Lakes Regional Conference. Because we love our acronyms, it's the ASCE GLRC. Word.

Anyway, 14 schools design and build (amongst other things) concrete canoes and then race them to see who is the best. Or in the case of Marquette's region, who can come in second to UW-Madison, the creators of the greatest concrete vessel in the WORLD last year. I'm not even kidding. They beat those kids from the Netherlands at worlds.

Our scrappy band of misfits' goal this year? To bring a canoe that wouldn't break in half on the way down. And it didn't! But alas, my hull design made it impossible to turn so we came in last in all the races. Oh well. Still better than last year.

In short, a weekend of shenanigans that included Notre Dame and Valpo's canoes showing up in two pieces (ND took theirs out on the water after the competition anyway), another canoe literally falling apart in the water, and some other dudes sinking. Oh, and Madison killing everyone.

Just in Case You Missed It

Yep, a dog peeing on Natalie Portman's leg. Take that Yale!

And you said nothing good ever came out of the paparazzi. It would be fairer to say that nothing good ever comes out of me logging in to Blogger.

Elderly Woman Applying Makeup Most Heartbreaking Thing On Earth

"PARMA, OH—In an unbelievably heartrending and entirely futile undertaking intended to recapture some infinitesimal shred of her faded beauty and youth, 82-year-old Rachel Shultz painstakingly put on her makeup Monday. "This is the same shade of lipstick I wore when I met [Shultz's long-dead husband] Kenneth," Shultz said as she steadied her palsied right hand with her left while applying the bright red cosmetic to her thin, bloodless lips, a process that only served to accentuate the weathered crevices crisscrossing her face like hundreds of tiny dried riverbeds. "That was in Cleveland right after the war, back when I was a candy striper. I was quite the looker." Shultz later dozed lightly in the lobby of her assisted-living center while waiting for her daughter to drive her to a friend's funeral."


I cried a little bit