New blog:

Ethel.

Read and enjoy.

Sock.

I recently began writing for PBA Local, a blog run by the news editor of the Beacon, Mitzi Figueroa. This girl knows her blogs. She started PBA Local less than a week ago, and it already has followers on Twitter and Facebook as well.

Last night, I wrote an article about finding random stuff around campus: first it was little stuff, like a beer bottle, and then a wadded-up tissue with a cigarette butt stuffed into it. Then -- drumroll please -- a pair of panties.

They were just sitting there on the sidewalk in a prominent place. The worst part is that they looked dirty, but it was hard to tell, because only God knows how long they had been sitting there.

After Pantygate, I thought the trash had ended. Things have been looking pretty spiffy around campus due to Open House. It seems, however, that I was wrong, because yesterday I found a sock.

I snapped a picture of the sock with my cell phone, uploaded it to Flickr, and added it to my article for PBA Local on the abundance of trash around campus.

The punchline:

Kimberly Miller of the Palm Beach Post was tipped off about PBA Local and wrote up a piece in her own blog, Extra Credit. And what picture did she use? What article on the site did she reference? Well, only the most recent! She mentioned the panties AND the sock, and borrowed the picture to run along with her article.

Needless to say, I have been laughing nonstop ever since. I even crawled out of my warm, comfortable bed to write this, hoping it would vent some of my jubilance and allow me to sleep. That doesn't seem to be the case, so now I will read toothpaste for dinner comics from 2006.

Online comics.

I have been getting back into reading online comics every day. My favorites:

toothpastefordinner.com
marriedtothesea.com
cyanide and happiness



By far, my favorite web comic ever is toothpaste for dinner. I read it every day, sometimes more than once, sometimes --GASP-- I read it for an hour while procrastinating, when I should be studying for Religion and News Seminar. I don't know anything about the person who writes it (or should it be "draws"), but there is sometimes a crudely-drawn pug involved, and very often the events take place in an office. When I was stuck behind a desk (a year of my life, wasted), I would always take the time to go through the archives every morning and read one of the office comics, just to make myself feel a little better about my situation. Whoever writes it is consistently funny. Por ejemple:

Best part of that is what the ticket says: "What did you even eat?"

This just in from Spring Training....

Kevin Youkilis, #20 infielder for the Boston Red Sox, showed up to play the Twins this afternoon fresh faced. As in he shaved. As in, if he doesn't grow some hair on the top of his head, people might start thinking he has alopecia.

Just Wednesday, Youkilis (left) was at Hammond Stadium in Ft. Myers with his now-trademark handlebar ... thing.

Apparently he decided that having a fuzzy millipede over his lip wasn't working for him. I remember he had the hairless thing going in 2007, but I still think the transition would go over a lot better if he would actually grow some hair on his head.

If I were a real, hard-hitting sports journalist, I would always be sure to ask the tough questions. Like, "Why did you do it, Youk? Why did you do it?...."