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A Matter of Time

People have various ways of stopping to evaluate their lives. Some folks find it useful to consider their financial security, their relationships or their work.
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I’ll love you forever

Alright, I'll make it simple: The problem with Valentine's Day at this university is that most people's idea of a long-term relationship is tantric sex.
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A Toot ‘ll Do

People take themselves too seriously nowadays. With a looming war, the economy what it is and the gloomy weather, we've seemed to have lost our sense of humor. My solution: People should fart more.
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You Dare Insult Me Almonds?

It's these cold winter days that make me wish I had an elephant to ride to class. I would name it Gšr Thundertrunk, and together we would trample our foes beneath us.
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Cupid Was a Capitalist

It's Valentine's week. If you're bitter about the whole thing, you can at least delight in the sheer economics of the whole thing.
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Week 6: Introduction to Apathy

Chances are you spent the weekend studying for midterms. If you didn't, you had more fun than me. Monday's forecast: Remember, you don't need to know how to do it, as long as you know how to criticize...
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The Lockup

Locking up your bike by Kerr Hall is a bit like signing up to be on American Gladiators. In order to retrieve your bicycle after class, you must first make your way through a solid wall of steel spok...
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Man vs. Machine: Who Will Win?

It's registration time again and I would like to take a moment of silence to mourn the passing of registration by telephone. RBT gave you something to hate. There was a person on the other end of the ...
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Congratulations, I’m Sorry

To give credit where credit is due, I'd like to thank the A.S. Program Board for showing "Bowling for Columbine" last night. Ironically the struggle for tickets was nearly enough to make one resort to...
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Tiny Boxes Make Me Happy

If you tried to do Monday's crossword, the answer to 13 down was "REFIT." Twenty-five across was "REPENT." Of course, you would need an extra box to spell either of them.
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Achoo!

I hate dust. Living in Isla Vista is like setting up a shanty insida a vacuum bag. I leave my stuff out for a week and when I retrieve it I feel like an Indiana Jones raching for a spider-covered idol...
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Write Good

After careful research, I have determined that there are only three kinds of midterms. In keeping with UCSB's fine tradition of simplifying issues until an acronym can be found, I have listed them
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Coin-Op Hell

The decline of Western civilization is an agonizingly slow process peppered with occasional indicators like inflation, reduced funding for the arts, limitations to individual freedoms, "Elimidate," th...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Unless the concept of "more bang for your buck" directly relates to a massive spontaneous failure of the kidneys, two and a half hours is just too long.
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All in the Family

Against all probability, my anthro professor said something interesting today:"You are the product of an evolutionary line of organisms that, over the course of three and a half billion years, has nev...
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