Last Thanksgiving, a friend and I wrote a column for the DTH making fun of N.C. State fans.
(Note: If you're a State fan and you're reading this, hi Grandma! Also, sorry.)
We thought it was great — a perfect mix of playful and biting that made fun of them effectively with a dash of "you're not our rivals" to really send it home.
The Wolfpack did not like it. We received a conglomeration of insults both painful and creative, my favorites being "they look like pale, pasty, malnourished orphans" and "I hope your turkey is unsatisfying." It was exhilerating.
I would say that if they could line up to rip those stone rectangles from their very brick-y campus and throw them at us, they would.
That's pretty funny, since that very same friend just wrote an article about the tradition of stealing bricks from UNC's less-brick-y campus.
- Rumors, my favorite thrift store probably named after an under appreciated Lindsay Lohan song from 2004, is turning 2 years old and celebrating with a big party.
- Sunday, the Pepper Festival is coming to town, and that sounds terrible. I don't know why it's news. Let me know when the dessert parade makes a stop.
- Saxophonist and UNC junior Eric Przedpelski and his jazz quartet recorded their very first album during the spring. I'm excited because every single good song I know has a saxophone in it ("Talk Dirty," "Worth It," "Yackety Sax").
- Voter registration has officially begun in the Pit. Goodbye, Pit.
Harvard University just instituted a system to ask students their preferred gender pronouns. So now they have this new policy AND Elle Woods. That doesn't seem fair.
The General Assembly might be moving North Carolina's primary up to March, creating a whole new kind of March Madness. If that happens, I hope Duke gets defeated by an embarrassingly low-ranked team and that Donald Trump loses to Pizza Rat.
Carolina Performing Arts bumps music through the speakers at Memorial Hall between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. from a list of 200 songs, none of which are "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It," so there goes my plan to get them to play that all day Friday for Will Smith's birthday.
“Even though you have a lot of things to feel bad about, that are unforgivable in a sense, you can’t live your life without finding some way to move on from that.” — Susan Simone, a volunteer at the Orange County Correctional Center. She's trying to get copies of Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy" to give to her literacy students. Attention first-years who didn't do their summer reading but your mom bought you a book: Help out!
Investigative reporter/my personal comedic icon Bronwyn Bishop explained the different kinds of man buns on campus. My personal favorites are "The Commander" and "The TOPO." Keep yourselves informed, people.
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