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02 EDITORS’ NOTE Prescience and struggle in the face of meaninglessness
03 DOORMAT Words for the trustees • More stuff freshmen like • Vagina dialogues
05 SOCIETY Long distance relationships: stories and strategies • How to have an alternative Valentines Day
09 ARTS & LIT Just in time for your lonely Saturday, some scintillating romance novel reviews
10 FEATURE Graffiti at Carleton: a comprehensive history
14 PERFORMANCES Talking with the cast and grew of The House of Seven Gables
16 MUSIC Franz Ferdinand’s latest: what’s the Scottish word for misstep? • What does a film prof listen to? • Aaron Kaufman looks into a dark mirror
18 CINEMA He’s Just Not That Into You: it’s not a chick flick if it’s got Affleck, bro • Andrew Tatge on noise and movie trailers
20 CARTOONS We make Winsor McCay look like a stupid jerk
22 FUN & GAMES You choose the next Vinayak!
23 COUNTDOWN Chun-Li, local hip-hop, and avoiding sterility
Filed under: PDF Posts | Tags: Carleton College, Carleton University, Comps, Dan Lacey, James Hannaway, Makando Z, Mamma Mia, Notorious, Princess Peach, Prom Queen, Super Bowl, Unicorns
Best. Carl. Ever. Period. Two timely features. Erudite Reviews. And World War III: Carleton College v. Carleton University.
CARL 1/30/09
Contents:
01 EDITORS’ NOTE Prescience and struggle in the face of meaninglessness
03 DOORMAT Carlemaggedon starts here – we demand our name back from Carleton University!
06 SOCIETY Orion Martin’s inauguration misadventure • Jordan Narvey on the importance of broomball • Momma mia! Sex and Mario Bros
08 SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE: Comps, for the uninitiated • Surveying the controversy over Bon Appetit at Carleton
15 ARTS & LIT Sasha Korobova on the libe’s latest installation • James Hannaway talks to Dan Lacey, Minnesota’s foremost political painter
18 MUSIC Lil Wayne’s “Prom Queen” – horrible or terrible? • Andrew Bird lays a turd • Russ Petricka’s top tracks
20 CINEMA Notorious: a dialogic review • Frank Firke spends Christmas on Mars
22 PERFORMANCES Faust comes to the cities • How cool was Cooler Ranch’s debut?
23 CARTOONS A whole lotta Jenna MacKrell • Makando Z gets complicated
26 FUN & GAMES It’s a letter ‘Z’-themed word search. Why? Because we can. • Things Barack Obama will make cool again, in the Bracket
27 COUNTDOWN What is this “super-bowl”? Max Bearack and Frank Firke explain
Aren’t you amazed when one of your really smart friends, or really smart people on tv or in magazines throws out some idea or tidbit so obviously cool and interesting that you think “Why can’t I think of this. It’s so obvious.” I’ve noticed that lots of cool blogs usually have that same Ah Ha! moment. To showcase one of these conceptual jewels, here’s the fifth installment of Why Didn’t I Think To Make That Blog. Of course, if you find one of these great blogs, you’ll shoot them our way won’t you?
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http://men-in-full.livejournal.com
Their generous form in art and experience
http://men-in-full.livejournal.com/
About (from the site): My name is Stefanie, and this LJ, Men-In-Full, celebrates large men. I do love them; I’m married to one! Here I want to offer a whole re-orientation of how we perceive large men with the eye and in the mind.
Why It’s Great: Pictures of fat guys. Jolly men. Old men. Young men. That fat guy from Lost. SUMO WRESTERS! They’re all here. From paintings to random pictures! I realize this site is specifically aimed at ladies who like more weighty guys, but come on, doesn’t seeing the picture of the fat guy smoking a pipe make you giggle! What is he thinking? I don’t know! But he sure looks content.
-Alex Sciuto
Filed under: PDF Posts | Tags: baby mama drama, Boise Idaho, cold, Klimt, melodrama, movie reviews, Northfield
We’re back with the first magazine of cheery winter season! Make sure to check out the cover because it looks a lot better in pdf form. Eventually, I hope that we’ll master the fine art of lightening every picture and graphic on the computer that it comes out as pretty in print as it does on the screen, but for now enjoy wowing at it on the COMPUTER!
CARL 01-16-09
( CONTENTS: )
02 EDITORS’ NOTE – Prescience and struggle in the face of meaninglessness
03 DOORMAT – For the benefit of those who where abroad, Matt Pieh presents a synopsis of Penisgate ‘08 • Libertarianism and you
05 PERFORMANCES – The Guthrie does Albee, and Mandy Zoch reports • Winter ‘09 previews
06 SOCIETY – Sex and food, or ‘Remember that Seinfeld episode?’ • The next time you consider asking out your chem lab crush, maybe you should grow up first
08 FEATURE – Dan Sugarman talks to Randy Peck, punk rock Santa
10 MUSIC – Sting gives President Oden the creeps • Kyle Kramer likes the new Animal Collective, cultural implications be damned
12 ARTS & LIT – Alex Sciuto sees the world’s most expensive painting • Sasha Korobova gets melodramatic • Greg Hunter reads Krazy Kat
14 CINEMA – Andreas Stoehr loves esoteric films, and he doesn’t care who it hurts • Gomorra’s Italian gangsters shake down Andrew Tatge
16 FUN & GAMES – It’s the student journalism equivalent of Jordan playing for the Wizards: The Bracket is back!
17 COUNTDOWN – It’s Biggie vs. Blagojevich in a battle for your attention
18 CARTOONS
-Alex Sciuto
Filed under: Food | Tags: baking, Dan Sugarman, pound cake, Sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving Recipe
First-off, imagine if I hadn’t been lazy and had posted this… wait this is the day after Thanksgiving. So this post-thanksgiving recipe is timely.
Is this a dessert? Or a side dish? I’m not sure, but we’ll find out soon, enough! It’s a straightforward pound cake, but with a little bit of a twist. My mom got this recipe from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, btw.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups granuated sugar
- 2 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes (at least two sweet potatoes)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 5 teaspoons fresh orange juice
- 2 tablespoons grated orange zest
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a ten-inch tube pan. Next mash your sweet potatoes. Quickly whipping up mashed sweet potatoes is easy. Microwave them for three to four minutes, peel them, then mash them with a fork. Easy!
Combine the dry ingredients and spices. It’s very important to combine the dry ingredients beforehand so that the spices and salt will be evenly distributed throughout the cake.
Cream the butter with the sugar (if you’re really unhealthy, like I am, then you eat some of this deliciousness), and then add the sweet potatoes and the vanilla mixing very well. Eat some of this too. Cause it’s also very tasty. Next beat in eggs, one at a time, making sure to incorporate the eggs completely. Finally, add in your combined dry ingredients, and mix until combined.
Plop the combination in the pan, and bake for an hour and ten minutes. While that bakes, combine the sifted powders sugar and the orange juice together to create a sweet glaze. When the cake is out of the oven and cooled, drizzle the glaze an sprinkle the orange zest. Voila!
TASTE TEST Very good! A disclaimer, we ran out of sweet potatoes so we substituted a cup of mashed pumpkin for a cup of sweet potato, but I didn’t really taste much pumpkin, so I don’t think the substitution made a huge difference. The most surprising aspect of the cake is its moistness. It is dense and wet. Some said that the cake could have been a bit sweeter, but I think its subdued sweetness went well with the sweet glaze. Too much of a good thing can be just too much sugar. But I wonder what would happen if instead of two cups of sweet potatoes, two cups of the syrupy sweet mashed potato casserole dish that is always at Thanksgiving and is often served with marshmellows was instead used. That would probably bring up the sweetness. In sum, a fun twist on pound cake that is even more moise and dense than a typical poundcake.
-Alex Sciuto
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Aren’t you amazed when one of your really smart friends, or really smart people on tv or in magazines throws out some idea or tidbit so obviously cool and interesting that you think “Why can’t I think of this. It’s so obvious.” I’ve noticed that lots of cool blogs usually have that same Ah Ha! moment. To showcase one of these conceptual jewels, here’s the third installment of Why Didn’t I Think To Make That Blog. Of course, if you find one of these great blogs, you’ll shoot them our way won’t you?
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http://thisisindexed.com/
About (from the site): This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math..
Why It’s Great: If you love Venn Diagrams and conceptual graphs about subjects that should never never be graphed or diagrammed, then you’ll like this site. Honestly, though. This site is mainly about the concept of drawing simple illustrations on index cards attempting to make sense of the world. More often than not, the actual visual reflections are quotidian, but occassionally the author sums up an idea with a high level of wit and visual efficiency.
-Alex Sciuto
Filed under: PDF Posts | Tags: Bald Eagle, Carleton College, Dan Sugarman, Sarah Palin, the carl
You might have already leafed through the print version of the Carl, but I sure hope you download the e-version. You see, late on every other Wednesday night as Greg, Dan, and I are finishing up laying-out the Carl, we usually have a few moments where we just wow at how pretty the whole magazine looks. The text is crisp, the background is bleach white, and the photos are all correctly contrasted and balanced. It never looks as good in on newsprint as it does on computer screens. So download it and you can see the Carl in all its perfection.
11-07-08 CARL
-Alex Sciuto
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Presenting:
The latest, greatest edition of the Carl:
10-24-08 CARL
And two old issues from the archives:
1-12-07 CARL
Katy Perry: Intriguing to Morons
by Dan Sugarman
Katy Perry: Totally Hottie or Bag of Hot Air?
Katy Perry is a boring shill for a record industry that is out of new ideas. Amy Winehouse and Lily llen, the two other charttopping female singer-songwriters of the day, also seem boring to me. (You have to accomplish something musically before we care about your drug use.) But Perry seems rofoundly boring. Or at the very least, profoundly conventional: the kind of pop star who distracts from the fact that she is exactly like everything that came before by taking on the controversial topics of the day like girls kissing girls and metrosexuality. She is edgy enough to provoke a Fox News commentator, perhaps, but in the end she has nothing especially interesting to say in her songs and has a public persona that will be forgotten months after her career ends.
With the video for “Hot ‘n’ Cold,” her latest single, Perry looks back to her debut single “Ur So Gay,” a screed against pretty boys that called for an American boy more like one of S.E. Hinton’s greasers in The Outsiders than a Fall Out Boy fan. Her husband-to-be gets cold feet at the alter, the latest sign of ow he tends to “PMS/Like a bitch/[She] would know.” The rest of the video shows Perry as a strong, confrontational female, willing to hunt her indecisive man down, but also portrays her in the same sexualized light as any other pop star, prancing around in a wedding dress bordering on lingerie and a team of dancers with baseball bats. The end result is too confusing to be interesting, and seems like further proof that, American Idol franchise aside, Perry is one of the more boring up-and-coming pop stars.
Read more musical commentary and reviews in the latest Carl.
Filed under: Internet | Tags: Ampersand, blogs, clever ideas, Internet, typography
Aren’t you amazed when one of your really smart friends, or really smart people on tv or in magazines throws out some idea or tidbit so obviously cool and interesting that you think “Why can’t I think of this. It’s so obvious.” I’ve noticed that lots of cool blogs usually have that same Ah Ha! moment. To showcase one of these conceptual jewels, here’s the second installment of Why Didn’t I Think To Make That Blog. Of course, if you find one of these great blogs, you’ll shoot them our way won’t you?
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http://ampersand.gosedesign.net/
http://ampersand.gosedesign.net/
About (from the site): I like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive character of them all. This blog is an attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.
Why It’s Great: The complexity of the shape of the ampersand combined with its growing obsolescence placed high above the number 7 on the keyboard makes the ampersand an unusually captivating typographical character. And while the average joesixpack (what if Sarah Palin was really talking about unhealthy Americans, calling them JoeSicksPack? Just blew your mind?) might not be using the character too often in e-mails and such, this blog shows the “Where’s Waldo” quality of the character. It’s both plastered on walls, looped in neon lights, and used to shorten the length of all number of signs, but we never really notice do we.
Well, thankfully, now you’ve got a website to document all the sightings.
-Alex Sciuto
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Well, it might not be hot off the e-press, but the weekend is not yet over, and the newest edition is here for all. Download it and then you can see The Carl in its crisp, high resolution glory.
Carl Week 4
Exit 69 Doesn’t Sell Out by Ann Busiek
The weekend of February 11, Exit 69, Carleton’s most schizophrenic co-ed a cappella group, sang at the International Championship of College A Cappella (ICCA, to those in the know) Midwest Divisional in romantic, enchantic Decatur, Illinois. We sent in audition tapes last spring, scrounged up money for the entrance fee, and spent most of this term rehearsing three songs for ICCA. This is not an article about that performance. It is about Exit 69, the open road, and why we are really better than all the groups that beat us.
On February 10, the fact that we had neglected to reserve any campus vans made itself known to us in the following fashion:
Someone: Did we reserve campus vans?
Someone else: No.
Because the Carleton administration is very kind and because Sue and Beth can be very persuasive, we enanaged to get three last-minute rental cars and then all 13 of us piled into them on Friday afternoon after class.
I happily set my books and pillow in the passenger seat next to the driver, my dear friend Scott, and went into the snack bar to purchase malted milk balls for the journey. When I returned to the car, I was dismayed to find that my seat was being occupied and my pillow enjoyed by all six-foot-however-many-inches of Derek Zimmerman and his blond hair. There was, apparently, a perfectly good spot for me in the middle of the back seat, which consisted mostly of an uncomfortable raised-up bump of fabric. “No no,” I said. “But I have these long … Read more of Ann’s adventure
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I’ve been combing through the computers in The Carl office trying to find old issues of The Carl to throw up on the internet. While it’s very time consuming work, looking at old issues is a pretty cool time machine back to when some or all of us weren’t even at Carleton, and they’re a great way to waste two afternoon hours in a computer lab. So, look to the left side-bar and enjoy.
-Alex Sciuto
Filed under: PDF Posts
Hey CarlGang,
I didn’t realize how huge the PDF sizes were (the New Student Week edition was 20 megabytes!). I’ve uploaded what Adobe Acrobat calls optimized pdf files, and they’re smaller. If you were trying to download the pdfs and they were just too big, well now they’re much smaller.
- 08-09 NSW Edition (1.2 MB)
- 9/26 Carl (4 MB. It’s color! Didn’t optimize as greatly!)
Filed under: Music
From the print edition of The Carl, an interview by Greg Hunter:
David Berman released his first album as frontman of the indie-country band Silver Jews in 1994. Since then, he has recorded five others (including this year’s Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea), conquered substance abuse problems, and become known as one of America’s greatest living lyricists. Berman first began playing Silver Jews material on tour in 2006, and, the band is currently touring for the second time in support of LMLS. Berman recently spoke with The Carl in anticipation of the Silver Jews’ October 8 show at Minneapolis’ Triple Rock Social Club.
The Carl: Are there older Silver Jews songs, ones you recorded before Tanglewood Numbers or the first tour, that have taken on a new life now that you’ve been regularly playing them live?
David Berman: In “Horseleg Swastikas,” I say, “I wanna be like water.” Every night I wear a polyester suit and sweat all the way through until every bit of fabric is drenched. By the time I come to this song I have to admit that even my most meager dreams have come to be.
C: The second tour has been going on for several months now. How does it compare to the first?
D: People don’t shield me as much. I get on the stage and every percentage of me is focused on entertainment or expression. To a great degree I’ve managed to kill the self-conciousness that holds a lot of us back from doing the things that could set us free.
C: In an interview with [music and comics blog] Cable & Tweed, you said that your previous albums “prefer” Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, in the sense that they wanted to be like it, and that “preferring the first records means misunderstanding them.” Can you elaborate on that, or describe how LMLS is the culmination of all the Silver Jews albums to date?
D: My writing is usually just interacting with the genius of the ordinary, which is difficult to see… Read more of Greg’s Interview with David.
