The Captain's Log: Bubbleology

Here are some lies about the Dartmouth Bubble: it's a microcosm of the real world; it's the natural result of being out in the middle of nowhere; it is one of many bubbles in God's champagne; it's an optical illusion caused by refraction of a thinning, viscous and soapy membrane. Rather, I think, the Dartmouth Bubble -- insofar as it's real at all, remains at its root a schema useful for dealing with the exigencies of our own D-plan-amplified self-absorption. And yet, thanks to our collegiate and careless use of language, the idea of "the Dartmouth Bubble" gets tossed around like it has all those mythic meanings and more.

The Sonic Rage Cage: Introduction

Preface: I'm frankly still trying to figure out why exactly anyone ever gave us permission to write anything that will be read by more than a few people.

Haute Hufft

Fahsion Forward Far From Dartmouth

Overheard

"Counting really depends on how you think about it. Like, if you believe that 2 + 2 is 5, then it is." "Wow, dude." Two teenage guys, Nugget Theater Lobby, mid-afternoon "There's a fine line between dancing and crying, and I walk that line." '06 male, The Red Barn "I hate these f-ing angels.

Man-Bikini Etiquette and Other Things You Won't Learn in Chem. 5

By the time you reach junior winter, you know most of the ins and outs of living in Hanover. Never use a credit card at Panda House.

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THE CAPTAIN'S LOG:

HOW TO BE ALMOST A ROCK STAR

Haute Hufft

Burning Bridges

STEPH'S SO DARTMOUTH

Senioritis

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OVERHEARD

"I'm so excited. Kaitlyn Cooper's returning to "The OC" tonight!" "Oh yeah! I've never met her." Two girls milling by Collis garbage cans, post-breakfast "My favorite part of going to Dartmouth is that I'm a Kappa, and that's like being permanently in style." Drunk girl, Second Floor of AD "She's so lame.

MATT AT THE MOVIES

Rumor Has It...

ON THE SIDEWALK

The Heat Is On

CAMPUS BANDS

Check it out

HAUTE HUFFT

STYLE RESOLUTIONS

On The Sidewalk

The North Face Effect

THE CAPTAIN'S LOG:

Futility, Beer and Captain Planet.

THE TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2005

Aimee Mann -- "The Forgotten Arm" As the songwriter whose works famously inspired filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson to make his three-hour epic "Magnolia," it seems only fitting that Aimee Mann finally wrote an operatic narrative of her own.

THE TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2005

"King Kong" A monument to excess, Peter Jackson's "King Kong" is the kind of grand entertainment that Hollywood so often promises, but fails to deliver.

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