interactive map of all those great depression photographs

nErD aLeRt!

my friend melissa (see video in previous post) is getting desperate for last minute votes for her project in some nerdy student competition at suckerpunch. she is standing over my shoulder making sure i say only nice things about her and making veiled threats. so please just click the vote button.

It just keeps getting worse

Remember Patrick Witt? The Yale qb we reported on when he made the mistake of choosing to play in the game we were going to instead of going to his Rhodes interview? Then it turned out his coach was a liar?  Turns out he may have been lying too and he is accused of being a sexual assailant.

GULP!

gulpdate

That yale coach that I wrote about fired himself yesterday because he lied about everything.

rhodes scholarship UPDATE: BARD WINS!

 
Patrick Witt's loss (both to harvard and in life), was Ronan S. Farrow's (bard class of '04) gain as the Raptor went on to win one of the prized scholarships.  Not unlike friend of toops, Nscience, Ronan graduated from Bard when he was still a teenager. At the time, Ronan was known as Shamus. Congrats fellow Bardian!
 

oh yea, he's also Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's son, nbd.

i'm ok!

The U-Haul driver who struck and killed one woman — and injured two others — outside of yesterday's Yale-Harvard football game passed a sobriety test. Investigation of the accident is ongoing. (via)

my boss was worried that i was the one who got run over by a u-haul full of beer kegs. i wasn't!

the plot thickens

Coach’s Rhodes Claim Under Review by Yale

NEW HAVEN —Yale University began an internal review Thursday to determine if its football coach, Tom Williams, was being truthful when he listed himself as a Rhodes scholarship candidate on his résumé. 

rut roh...



Guess you can never trust a b***dog...

yale qb urpdate

In lots of the initial stories on Patrick Wit, the Yale QB who chose "The Game" over his Rhodes Scholarship finalist interview, it was reported that his coach also passed on the scholarship in order to pursue professional football. Turns out that might have been an overstatement...(gulp) 

"Witt was unable to be reached for comment. He has refused to speak about his decision this week, releasing only a statement saying that he would withdraw the application and concentrate on the Harvard game.  He informed Rhodes officials of his decision last Sunday night, and it took them a bit by surprise.

“It is rare for someone to decline an interview,” Gerson said. “I cannot remember anyone else who has ever declined an interview for an athletic event."




*sigh*

champagne problems

Yale QB Patrick Witt found out last week that he was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Great news right? WRONG. His interview is this weekend in Atlanta, but Witt is scheduled to play against Yale's arch-rival Harvard! Pop quiz hot shot, what do you do? what do you do?






Spoiler Alert: He's withdrawing his application so that he can focus on playing "The Game." yikes...


"For more than a century, Rhodes scholars have left Oxford with virtually any job available to them. For much of this time, they have overwhelmingly chosen paths in scholarship, teaching, writing, medicine, scientific research, law, the military and public service. They have reached the highest levels in virtually all fields." #justsayin'


Soooo, guess we'll see you at the game this weekend Patrick!

look at rob's school.

exactly what it's like.

saved by the bells UPDATE

i was eating lunch outside today, and there was some lovely music playing from this tower. they were playing familiar songs (sesame street theme was yesterday), and it turns out you can make requests! oc i had to make a couple one. c2e

I got an email back:

Hi Robert,

Michael has agreed to play Final Countdown today at around 5:55pm.

Enjoy!

Vera

unfortunately, it's the wrong song. i'll request ROCKY TOP again tomorrow.

rob's new ID photo

my ideas:

E

F

this time, i believe you.

you witch. but i wish you'd quit comparing yourself to me. we are nothing alike.

nothing!

brb : outside

yesterday, we embarked on an exciting adventure to new haven, ct to check out yale university, and a few other things in the area. i know what you're wondering, and yes! i would LOVE to share some highlights from our trip with you!

conditions in new haven:
just perfect. 77 degrees and sunny as all get out.

things we saw outside:

first stop, and a very special edition of what's for lunch????? : taco bell in greenwich, ct!
jelly?

yale art + architecture building by paul rudolph.
i wish i had some pics of people suffering in studio, but they had that place on lockdown.

yale center for british art by louis kahn.
if you love circles and squares and symmetry, then you'll love this!

jicyww what some people dress like at yale.

beinecke library by gordon bunshaft.
you can never go wrong with multi-story walls of books.

a noose.
reminds me of college.
omg look at this statue of a triceratops we found!!!!
rawr!

on top of the tallest mountain in all of connecticut.
look! its the ocean!

do you feel like you were there with us? i hope so. if you want to see the rest of the pictures, you can just click right here. and if you want to hear the best song in the world, click here. k bye!

nErD aLeRt!

jic you're going to new haven this weekend...
Photos, sculpture, paintings, architectural models, videos and other sorts of art responding to contemporary suburbia by some 30 artists, architects and designers make up “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” at the Yale School of Architecture. An eclectic but altogether stimulating exhibition, it has a clear if slightly condescending message: it is O.K. to live in suburbia. Phew. (nytimes)