Words by: Ryan Johnston
Image by: imdb
Every year around this time there are a handful of films that air relentlessly from now until December 25. Most of them are classics like A Christmas Carol and White Christmas. A few hilarious ones with the likes of A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation (my fave). However, there is [...]
Archives: December 2009
It’s a Wonderful Film, Not a Christmas Flick
An Atheist Christmas
Words by: Mark Hunter
Image by: Jessica Chan
I can’t remember exactly when I decided there wasn’t a God, but it may just as well have been on Christmas day as any other. My grandmother’s Christmas cards aside, I don’t remember Jesus ever making an appearance at our table, either in the form of an acutely misshapen [...]
I live in a Van Down by Duke University
How do I afford grad school without going into debt?
A ‘94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience
Discovered in the ‘Pinched’ section of Salon.com.
Words by Ken Ilgunas
Photos by Ken Ilgunas
I was lying on the floor of my van where the middle pilot chairs used to be, trying to hide from view. This is it, I [...]
Manners for the 21st Century Scoundrel
Words by: Adam Weinmann
Image by: Crystal Bretschger Johansson
Rude people are everywhere. My uncle, who lives in Switzerland, told me this true story, observed by a friend of his at the grocery store check-out. At the front of the line was an older, gentle-looking man. Behind him was a mother and her young child, and behind [...]
Bolivia: Land of Multiple Personalities and Dirt-Eating Fish
Words by: Jamie Phillips
Image by:Ahron de Leeuw
Bolivia, it is said, is a country of extremes. And, so far, whoever coined that phrase has proved it to be accurate. In less than 24 hours I traveled from the frigid, nearly oxygen-less altiplano into the depths of the humid, delirious jungle. And each new place that I [...]
The Randomness of Strangers
Words by: Jerry Brens
Image by: Ed Bierman
Usually I would never go rummaging through the trunk of a stranger’s car, but desperation can make a person do all kinds of things. I suppose he wasn’t a complete stranger though, Patty and I did have breakfast with him earlier that morning, but under the circumstances we failed [...]
