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I remember coming in as a lil’ freshman six months and seven weeks ago, wide eyed at the fact that parties don’t actually take place in your friend’s unfinished basement. I have to admit: I went a little overboard with the whole hooking up (whether it may be making out or sex) scene (which I feel is represented by this photo).
By the end of September I had lost count of my hook ups at twenty-five. I actually remember entering a house with the goal in mind to make out with every person inside (mission accomplished…). Clearly, I have no reservations with sex and my sexuality; I feel I should do whatever my body wants to do. This got me thinking about sex, and sexuality at Wesleyan.
I feel the Wesleyan social scene is known for its sex parties, naked parties, and parties involving porn and milk shakes. One thing I love about this school is that a lot of the events that are held are so open about sex and sexuality (and milkshakes). But as a second semester freshman, I know for a fact that I don’t have a true grasp of the sex and sexuality scene.
I do feel from my (limited) experience that a lot of the students here are very open and accepting of hooking up, relationships and alternate sexualities. I find it awesome that at many parties so many people are relaxed about two guys dancing together or huge grind trains. I have visited a lot of other colleges where these seemingly inconsequential events become a huge deal. For example, when I visited UConn over fall break I was at this party surrounded by obese bros, and girls whose fake tan made Snooki look like part of the Aryan race. I started to talk to this girl with a tongue ring, we will call her “Prudence.” Prudence drunkenly admitted to me that she really wished she could have sex with a girl, but she didn’t want to tell anyone at UConn. (Apparently those Sorority Sisters’ videos aren’t accurate.) In response, I immediately jumped right in, and starting to talk about bisexuality, the Kinsey scale, and Ziggy Stardust. Though we ended up hooking up (tongue rings are like a second tongue!), I felt assured that Prudence had the confidence in her sexuality to find someone or some place in which she could hook up with people who she wanted to hook up with. Read »
Celebrity Smack Blog Damn it feels good to be a popstar.
If you're an obsessive Twitter user like I am (follow me! @jocelynhope. I'm awesome.), you're probably wondering who the hell this Justin Bieber kid is. From the scanty information I gathered before I decided to dive deeper down the rabbit hole of choirboys with unfortunate haircuts who sing about love and sex, I concluded that Justin Bieber is a 15-year-old white kid who was discovered on YouTube, and now hangs out with Ludacris. And he did that We Are the World cover. The one that didn't have Stevie Wonder in it, and thus sucked. And he's from Canada.
Curious as to why this whippersnapper consistently tops Twitter's trending topics, I decided to watch a music video of his to better understand this teen sensation. Feeling adventurous, I chose to watch the video for “One Time”. It starts out with J-Beeb and his friend doing 15-year-old boy things, like playing video games, saying “skillz” with a z, and having iPhones that their parents bought them. Kids. Justin's typical privileged childhood fun is interrupted by a call from R & B singer Usher. Turns out Justin, because he is ostensibly a celebrity, is crashing at Usher's house. Or he's housesitting for Usher. Now, why Usher, who is rich and famous and supposedly marginally intelligent, is entrusting his house to a 15-year-old YouTube sensation is beyond me. Because, like every high school sophomore left alone in a large house for more than five minutes, Justin immediately texts all his friends to tell them that there is a party at Usher's house. Brilliant.
And here's where the song begins. The song itself is really nothing special. A bit more Auto-Tune and it's pretty much indistinguishable from any Akon or T-Pain song. It's what I like to call Ringtone Rap. It's the non-threatening, vaguely electronic crooned semi-rap you mainly hear in Forever 21 stores and blaring from the cellphones of preteen girls. The lyrics are like a Mad Libs of Ringtone Rap; they have phrases like “Imma” and talk about a vague sense of oneness with an anonymous “Girl”, who is addressed as “Girl”. I'm not entreating Justin to sing about the geopolitical situation in the Middle East or make subtle allusions to the works of Terrance Hawkes, but his lyrics leave much to be desired. Say what you will about Aaron Carter, but his songs had a touch of ingenuity in the subject matter; whereas Bieber prefers to stay in the safe zone of chaste white-boy love, Carter dared to tackle tougher issues, like his vivid dream-become-real in which he beats Shaquille O'Neal in a game of pickup basketball. Read »
Potential tarantula in Butt A
dark brown tarantula may still be in my room and i hope it is, if you live on the second floor of butt A don't worry it's not harmful. it might be near bathrooms on other floors too, i was just gone for a while and propped my door open. im still looking so ill be walkin the halls a little
http://collegeacb.com/sb.php?school=wes&page=thread&id=203205&p=1
Moving on, in the world of ACB science, the astronomy of hipsterdom was recently revealed… Read »
wesleyanargus.com
If you ever want to pull the nerves of a believing Jew, say that the Creation Story in Genesis is a polemic against Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation Epic—with which it shares key features and is “obviously” a response to it. Talk to a Christian about Jesus’ teachings being influenced by Hellenism, or to a Muslim about Muhammad being under the sway of Christianity (and also of Hellenism), and you will also get an uneasy response.
There are two key misconceptions concerning the cultural borrowings of religion on both the believers’ side and that of the non-believers. The believers, whom have indoctrinated me for better and for worse during my younger years, insist that the great truth of their religion not be shared by anyone else, and no other culture influenced said great truth.
The non-believers may say that clearly if religion by necessity changes with time, and truth is indeed absolute, then religion cannot be true—and clearly any belief system which has a complete identity shift—such as the Ancient Greek religion upon contact with Egypt or, as some believe, Judaism in becoming monotheistic from a polytheistic religion—cannot be true at all, and that people worship as is convenient or suitable for them. Read »
static.reelmovienews.com Don't end up like these people.
The Evil Overlord has a guide. So do the Hero and the True Love. Now it's time for That Guy. You know, the one who dies just so they can show how dangerous the monster is. The one who has that one funny line and is never seen again. That Guy. If you are ever That Guy, that everyman somewhere in the middle between the valiant Hero and the sinister Evil Overlord, you need to know how to Genre Savvy your way to being alive at the end of the film. Thus, I present to you the Movie Character Survival Guide.
House Lions is Wesleyan's resident poetry podcast. To hear featured poets read their poems live and talk about their work, check out the House Lions weekly featured reader. Look for information about live recording sessions in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, and a new featured poet every week. For more information, or to express interest in being on the show, shoot an email to sknittle@wesleyan.edu.
Upcoming Recordings and Events:
The next House Lions live recording will be Monday, February 22nd at 9 PM in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center. Come out to hear poets Susanna Myrseth '10, Randyl Wilkerson '12 and Leia Jane Zidel '12 read and speak about their work.
Also, look for Sarah Ashkin's work this weekend in Asa Horvitz's thesis A Noise Like Wings, February 25th at 9 PM, February 26th at 10 PM and February 27th at 9 PM in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
This week's poet: Sarah Ashkin '11
Bio: Sarah Ashkin is a young body poet from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently a junior at Wesleyan University studying Dance Composition and Performance and Environmental Studies. Sarah is interested in making works that encourage dialogue between identity and the natural world. Recently, she has found a new confidence to fully believe in art as its own intuitive force.
From the Editor:
Sarah Ashkin's poetic work is characterized, above all, by a serious respect for and celebration of the units of land, the human figure and the living element as bodies in their own systems and within a greater labyrinth of forces. In Sarah's work, the space of the human body navigates by juxtaposition and movement the New Mexico landscape as a framework for understanding what landscape is and does and what it builds, inside of and with and in spite of humans. In Sarah's work the human body is both oppressive and gentle, made up of its own landscape elements of ribcage and spine as topographical details. Sarah's writing is conscious of the ground that it walks on, where it leans for support and unabashedly brave in its work to build new space out of an ultimate coming together of ways of being human and ways of being alive.
Sarah Ashkin '11
Steel Leaves
Sanded, lipped, ambiguous reference to the pristine ruin. Through a gap down to the handfuls. undertow of her departure made into texted body waves. I don't really remember so Sara dries salt into steel leaves and next to me is such a pine- the needles are showing-there is no green, only grays and hints to everything we are also finding in absence. Infrastructure and sea sprayed. there must be a whale even in this weather. Take lines and make telephone poles-take beach and make glasses. We are here by a river- make bridges.
In Response and Argument to William Carlos William's "Rain"
Steel Leaves
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Full Interview
The latest ANR is here!
Tune in to hear headlines from Piers Gelly '13, an interview with the creators of this semester's pornography student forum, and a thesis spotlight on Chiara Di Lello '10, who is studying Muslims in America.
Thanks to Laignee Barron, Ben Soloway, Cora Engelbrecht, Amy Block, Mary Longley and Ruthie Lazenby for helping with this week's show!
There have been a variety of responses to my first post. My mom commented on my first post (hola mami!), and someone had a terrible case of gastroenteritis while reading, (drink more fluids!). However, many legitimate concerns emerged: should I keep my name attached to the blog? Will I regret this ten years down the road? I’m sure when my name is in the applicant pool, I will be googled, and one of the things my possible employer might see is a plethora of my sexcapades. This certainly won’t help my chances of being hired (or maybe it will), but this led me to a very important question: what is so bad about sex? Sex is a basic instinct, but so is hunger, and people do not get in trouble for having photos of them chowing down on a piece of cake that is bigger than my head. The American view on sexuality is one of the biggest paradoxes; at times we are so ashamed of sex that some people freeze up at the very mention of the word, but at the same time, people become successful in our society just based on their sex appeal and sexuality (ahem, my girl Britney Spears). I have no idea why this is the way it is. It could be religion (specifically Christianity), in which we are taught to resist any dirty sexual urges, and do something less fulfilling (missionary position anyone?). But at the same time, countries like France, which has a long history of religion, are much more relaxed about sex; I mean they have the Moulin Rouge.
This attitude in which people are ashamed of sex and having people find out, has affected almost every one. For example, I lost my virginity to this girl I was madly in love with, after we were done, she high fived me and said “we’re fuck buddies now, but don’t tell anyone.” So many things are wrong with this, first, who high fives after sex? Second, why would she be quick to hide the fact that we had sex? I mean, in looks I give myself a six (drunken seven), and the sex was good. I mean, she made it clear that she was in it for hooking up, not for my charm and wit. Read »
wesleyanargus.com
The satirical newspaper “The Onion” listed G-d as one of the most influential inventions of humankind in the December 16, 2009 issue. Concerning G-d, the article said, “This multipurpose tool has allowed billions to soothe their mortal fears while easily excusing a wide variety of unconscionable actions such as war and homophobia.”
While I am saddened that this portrayal of G-d’s role in our lives has risen to prominence, I did explain two weeks ago, in an article titled “The People Are Not the Heroes Now”, that the “war” portion is actually entirely upon the conscience of nationhood, and not that of any divinity. As to the “homophobia” portion, that and other types of hate like it constitute exactly what the religious war is: a vestige from bygone times that we do not live in anymore.
Despite not having electronics and having more time to think, overall, the people of the ancient world were not smarter nor wiser than we are today. They may have had much more to fear, and a more of a need for both conformity and lording over nature, all of which equate to greater barbarisms and cruelty. Read »
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In the spirit of Valentines Day....
We have made eye contact a few times- at the movies, around- and I think you could be someone worth knowing. I really don't know what you think of me/ if you think anything of me/ if you are out of my league but I have a feeling this could be something? Talk to me.
• Be more vague please.
http://collegeacb.com/sb/wes/thread/187882
LOVE
I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT
would someone PLEASE share it with me? for one time in my life i want to feel some love. i want to hold hands with a girl, stare at her eyes, and see love looking back at me. i don't care how corny this is; i just want it.
sigh.
http://collegeacb.com/sb/wes/thread/188613
Dear Secret Admirer
Just man up and tell me who you are. Leaving anonymous notes on my door is not the way to my heart!
• whaat?! that is super sweet.
• Shut up. No one admires you, secretly or otherwise.
• It's ME!
• Aw. Why aren't all guys this sweet/creepy for V-day? I mean yeah my bf is taking me out, but little notes are so cute too.
o greedy bitch. accept what you fucking have
Thanks for your submission!
Thanks for your submission!