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Smooth Move

February 6, 2011

Joe Dawson

My friend Tino and I debuted our 'Single Ladies' dance, and Twister didn't rehash awkward puberty memories, ending the party with my tears and cries of emotional pain, like it very easily could have.

SnOberlin

February 5, 2011

Patrick Doherty

In which a Californian attempts to explain weather in Ohio to those people who live in a warm climate.

Recapitulation

February 2, 2011

Christine Chang

Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.

Teaching English

January 31, 2011

Zoe McLaughlin

There was also a bonus piece to the puzzle that they could collect if they found Bigfoot and told him some facts about himself.

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