by Noodle Since it’s been 100 degrees for the last (dog) year, now is a good time to talk about swimming. I have noticed people attempting to swim many different ways, including on their back and by constantly going underwater. I have also heard that people are so stupid they can’t just jump in the pool, [...]
June 30, 2010
Capitol tours, Part 1
By Harold The Daily Triangle’s editorial board decided to spend the summer in Washington D.C. This blog demands that we be in the most powerful city in the world. Also, there was a great summer internship. In any case, I’ve used the opportunity to take as many tours, visit as many museums and listen to [...]
June 1, 2010
Containment Area for Relocated Yankees
By Harold I’ve spent the past week covering the NCAA Division II baseball championship tournament, which showed off the best and worst parts of being a sportswriter. The good — there was a storybook ending. Southern Indiana’s No. 1 and No. 3 pitchers had been suspended for four games for hitting batters after being warned [...]
May 21, 2010
Summer concert series
By Harold One of the best things about living in the Triangle is all the free outdoor concerts over the summer. On top of a parking garage, behind condos, in front of hotels,another parking lot, and this being Durham, outside a renovated tobacco factory — really anywhere with 50 yards of flat space. The biggest [...]
May 12, 2010
Enumeration
By Harold Sorry for the long absence from the blog, but I’ve been doing enumeration for the NRFU (Non-Response Follow-Up) Operation. Oh sorry, perhaps you’re not familiar with the government’s insane use of unnecessarily long acronyms on the one hand, and absurd-sounding unabbreviated words on the other hand. So I’m going door-to-door (enumeration) and hounding people [...]
May 11, 2010
At least I’m not Fuzzykins
By Noodle I had a great time reading on the beach in the Outer Banks this past weekend. Until I got to this passage from “The Modern Dog” by Stanley Coren, who the book jacket called “the most consistently popular author of dog books ever”: It’s also a good idea to avoid names that are [...]
April 29, 2010
In Praise of Noble Trees
By Harold I can honestly say that I have never thought about the thousands of trees that dot UNC’s campus (or any other trees, for that matter). But it was a beautiful day and I wanted to learn more about UNC’s campus, so I decided to take a walking tour called “In Praise of UNC’s [...]
April 26, 2010
Road Trip: Washington D.C.
By Harold The Daily Triangle took a road trip to visit friends and family in Washington D.C. this weekend, and a trip to the most powerful city in the world wouldn’t be complete without a big rally. Sunday was Earth Day 2010, which meant a concert on the National Mall featuring The Roots, John Legend, [...]
April 19, 2010
Durham, Manhattan-style
By Harold A common New York-style weekend would include a park with live classical music and hamburgers from a celebrated semi-structure, Sunday brunch and a walk through the art gallery district. In Manhattan, that meant the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, your choice of hundreds of restaurants [...]
April 14, 2010
Your English professor may have been misguided
By Harold If you’ve ever heard a critic or professor draw a conclusion that seemed like a real stretch, you would have liked what Jonathan Safran Foer had to say at Duke on Monday night. He recounted the story of a book critic at the 92nd Street Y who said that Foer was a genius for [...]
April 13, 2010
One way UNC is better than Duke
By Harold I think we can all agree that indoor soccer isn’t the most popular sport out there. It’s not ingrained in the culture, no one played it growing up, there’s no school teams, there’s no professionals to look up to. Still, the UNC intramural program offers men’s, women’s and co-rec indoor soccer. And within [...]
April 12, 2010
“Funniest Writer in America” turns serious
By Harold According to the program, P.J. O’Rourke has been labeled “the funniest writer in America” by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. His talk was titled “The Government vs. The Citizenry: Which is Worse?” which is definitely a set-up for some funny jokes. So I was excited to hear him speak at the [...]
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