Noah B. Pisner
7 Questions with Neil Gaiman
Near the end of his guest lecture in Folklore and Mythology 90i, Neil Gaiman informs the students that he doesn’t like doing interviews because it takes up time he could be using to work on a story, write a screenplay, or author a graphic novel. My gut drops when I then introduce myself as the reporter who’s going to prevent him from writing for the next half-hour. He smiles and shrugs, “We ought to get started then.”
Joining the Ranks
“The ad hoc process is greatly shrouded in mystery; remarkably little is written about it,” says current Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development Judith D. Singer. She smirks wryly as she swigs coffee from her mug, as if this is something she’s explained a hundred times before.
15 Questions with Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander, the “Seinfeld” star and Tony Award-winning Broadway actor, wears a beige tweed coat low on his shoulders and speaks with a confidence that seems worlds away from his notorious television alter-ego, George Costanza. His teenage son, who accompanied him on the trip, chats with a few Folklore and Mythology professors in the adjacent room. They later tell us that our laughs were impressively loud coming through the Warren House’s burly 19th century walls.
Movie Marathon: Films For All Valentine’s Day Occasions
Thinking about watching “Love Actually” because it’s Valentine’s Day? Don’t. Here to save you from Hugh Grant’s estrogen-churning narration and a blond Severus Snape, FM brings you prime celluloid flicks for every Valentine’s Day occasion.
The Crimson Weatherboard’s Weekly Weather Review
It’s not easy to admit it when you’re wrong. It’s not easy to do one armed pull ups.
The Crimson Weatherboard’s Weekly Weather Review
I no longer know what to believe in. One day, glorious winter is upon us, sheathing us in a cold white burrito wrap and masking the falseness that lies beneath in the austere perfection of thinglessness. Rarely has my heart been as thrilled as when I saw the world reduced to this.
Tongue Depressors
I snap a fifth tongue depressor against my inside jaw, giving it a wet chew before lobbing it into the trashcan a foot and a half away.
The Crimson Weatherboard’s Weekly Weather Review
Dear “Dear Readers” Readers, I have a confession to make.
The Crimson Weather Board’s Weekly Weather Review
Happy Halloween, 11.5 months belated.
The Crimson Weatherboard's Weekly Weather Review
I’d stay home and babysit my sister while mother would go off and sweat on sad middle-aged men who weren’t my father. The sweat would bead like rain drops on a car window.
Virginity at Harvard
“I think it’d be easy. I don’t think it’d be hard at all to lose my virginity to someone.”
The Weather: Sept. 27—Oct. 4
This week in last week’s weather, prose about the weather from last week, read to the tune of a Radiohead song.
The Crimson WeatherBoard’s Weekly Weather Review
This week in last week’s weather, we talk about the weather from last week: A real meteorologist predicted that this week’s weather would be “mostly pleasant.”
