For example, in lieu of trying to write faster or work harder, I recommend that everyone takes a trip over to Cute Overload right now. Why? Well, it has this!
Don’t you feel better now? I know I do. Have a great Tuesday, everyone.
The Daily Monthly office over spring break. (From CGSociety.org, art by Joseph Griffith)
Did you miss us? I bet you did. Well, the DM crew has taken some time off to recharge our batteries — Kalamazoo really does exist! — and we’re back to bring you the musings, news, and culture that you crave. To warm you up for the return to school, I offer a vision of the Perfect Night, from Olde English Comedy. Hopefully you all had plenty of nights like this in the past week:
Relating to my article on Obama’s image and celebrity, I now bring you the Barack Obama salon in Khartoum, Sudan. Don’t hold your breath for the Dick Cheney pizza parlor.
Also, check out this article about the music selected for the inaugural balls and how they relate to U.S. identity politics.
Does anyone like the new Kanye West album? It seems that his reviews are, at best, uneven. The Boston Globe calls “808s and Heartbreak” a “sonic wasteland,”and Spin magazine said it sounds “strangely rushed and unfinished.” Pitchfork noted the inherent contradictions in West’s own psyche, as he’s “hand-wringing over his consumption one moment, boasting about his wealth the next. He’s someone as driven by ego as he is plagued by doubt– in other words, a wholly human pop star.” It does seem to be West’s ‘indie’ album, and as the Onion’s A.V. club said, ” It seems destined to be the weird little orphan that fans single out as a favorite.” Read Full Post
Have you ever wondered how to categorize the blog you’re reading? Wonder no longer, as Typealyzer professes to answer the age-old question: “What type is that blog?” Here’s what they had to say about The Daily Monthly, accompanied by the above picture and the distinction of belonging to the category of ‘The Performers’:
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
This fits quite nicely with Vox Populi’s recent evaluation of our femininity, but a second opinion is always nice. Hit the jump for analyses of Vox Populi, SaxaSpeak, and the Hoya’s sports blog.
UPDATE: The Heckler’s fantastic blog has now been included. My apologies for the omission.
Some of you may have noticed that The Daily Monthly has undergone some cosmetic surgery in the last few days. We were having technical difficulties with our last theme, and we had to let it go. Everything seems to be fixed in this new version, and we even have a fancy new banner to prove it! We hope you enjoy our new look, as well as some of the fancy new additions to our sidebar (the tag cloud made me giddy like a schoolgirl).
To make up for all of this sudden change, I offer you a sign of our continued love for our readers after the jump.
I’m Meredith Ponder, and I’ll be taking you “past the page” of our print edition, keeping our stories fresh all month long. I’ll be making connections, drawing comparisons, and linking you to related
content.
Since we’ll be unveiling a new issue next week, I decided that this first post should be pretty simple. Our editorial for October, We’re All Poor Together Now, highlights the fact that those of us on the Indy were, for the most part, not counting on high-paying jobs straight out of college anyway. Read Full Post
Hello, reader. Welcome to The Daily Monthly, the blog of The Georgetown Independent. If you enjoy The Indy when it comes out every month but miss it after you’ve read it cover-to-cover, the blog will be up your alley. Blogging gives us a new way to turn our ‘monthly’ news into ‘daily’ knowledge and insight (see what we did there?).
Thus, with our entry into Georgetown’s blogging fray, we aim to satisfy three of your basic internet desires. First, we want to update the stories you see in our print edition, so that our stories stay fresh all month. You’ll be the first to know when the feud between Hanson and the Jonas Brothers, documented in our last print issue, culminates in a furious and adorable scuffle. Second, we want to provide you with original content that will keep you coming back for more. From advice columns to reviews of movie trailers to our own devastatingly-funny Photoshop creations, a healthy smattering of random hilarity will also be par for the course. Third, we’ll cover some cool stuff that’s going on around campus and in the world. Business news? Pop culture commentary? Linguistic analysis of modern discourse? Check all around.
If you like what you see, we hope you’ll include us in your regular web rotation. Since we’re the new kids on the block, let us know what you think of our content–send an email to indy@georgetown.edu or comment on posts. We feel strongly about feedback, and we’re looking for a long-term relationship with our readers. For a more emotional rendering of how we feel, check out the missive Mr. Obama cooked up just for us in his spare time:
Thanks for reading The Daily Monthly and The Indy. Stay tuned for what’s next.
The Daily Monthly is the blog of The Georgetown Independent. The views and opinions expressed in The Daily Monthly are of the writers and do not reflect the opinion of the editorial board or publication at large.
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