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RSS FeedBalloons. Jell-O. Kites. They’re three fairly innocent things you could find at a child’s birthday party. They’re also things that Roz Chast is afraid of. Chast, an author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, put together an alphabetical list of things she hates, fears or is otherwise disturbed by in the form of a
As I was returning to my car on Tuesday evening, I noticed the familiar orange envelope. It protruded from my windshield like the corpse of a dead albatross that I read about in my literature courses. I had received another parking ticket for the second time in two days. Since I transferred to the St.
What is on the walls says a lot about a place. Traditionally, blue walls indicate a boy sleeps and plays there, while pink walls indicate a girl. A wall covered in posters could signify the resident is a college student or a bachelor. Knickknacks and sunflowers might reveal a tender and attentive housewife, while the
I don’t know who the Kardashians are. When I admitted this to a friend, she looked at me like I was crazy. Now, thanks to Google, I know that they’re a rich family who has their own reality TV show. According to their Facebook page, 5,794,563 people like them and 202,911 are talking about them.
Sen. J.D. Alexander overlooked one key component in his proposal to cut USF’s state funding by nearly 60 percent—the students that would have to deal with the fallout. Alexander’s proposal would pillage $79 million of state money from USF. An additional $25 million was to be held in contingency to ensure USF’s cooperation in a
In the middle of the 1990s the Florida Republican Party took control of the Senate through democratic means—this was not a repeat of Natural Bridge in 1865—and in the next election took control of the House for the first time since Reconstruction, close to 120 years. The recommendations of the 1998 Constitutional Revision Commission that
Everyone has heard all the horror stories—the unsuspecting co-ed who posts questionable photos involving inappropriate extracurriculars and then never ever gets a job. It sounds like an exaggeration—who doesn’t have a bar photo or two tagged to his or her social media profile, after all. But as privacy on the Web becomes an increasingly quaint
Typical Tallahassee wheeling and dealing allowed for language to be written into the Senate’s version of the budget for the University of South Florida Polytechnic, located in picturesque Lakeland, to become the State University System of Florida’s 12th independent university. The Board of Governors, the state agency charged with overseeing SUSF, agreed (unfortunately) to a
This week, the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous made its name known after claiming to be responsible for closing down the United States CIA website. The site was shut down Friday, Feb. 10 in the afternoon, and as of Saturday continues to be closed. With the CIA holding some of the nation’s most guarded secrets, the
A violent buzzing pulled me away from some drowsy studying at my desk at 1:40 a.m. I glanced down at my phone to see who was calling and saw my mother’s face. No call from a mom at that time in the morning is going to be good news. A million images shot through my
