The Yale Record
As I mentioned in my last post, I was invited to give a Master’s Tea at my old school (a college in New Haven) this week. It went very well I think, or at least I enjoyed myself (click that link if you want to see the new “what the heck is going on this is kwazy!” facial expression I have just invented). I had forgotten how smart and fun and just generally delightful college kids can be. Grownups suck. Thanks to The Yale Record, the ever charming Master G of Pierson College, and most of all the people who took a break from all the important studying to hear some songs about monkeys.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:34 am
This link is from the last thread–how to make a half-pony, half-monkey monster (and give the lady in the thrift store where you bought the monkeys the heebie-jeebies!)
http://www.bmgbiz.net/ponkey.html
December 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I think there’s another tune in there waiting to come out: “Furry Old Eli”, which would be a song memorializing the old, otter-like Eli that existed before the clean-cut n00b-Eli edged it out.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Jonathan recommends gifts in Popular Science. Thanks! http://tinyurl.com/2qbl7a
December 13th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Grown-ups may suck, but you don’t have to be at college to enjoy life.
Heck, i’m not even quite sure what college is. The important thing here is, i don’t have a job!
One of the above is due largely to my being Australian. One is not. Which witch is witch? I leave that to the reader.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Is the “what the heck is going on this is kwazy!” facial expression under Creative Commons? I’d like to use it in my Christmas pictures.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
“What the heck is going on this is kwazy!” face is awesome, you rule JC!
(Oh btw that guy in the far right of the picture looks like Rupert Grint…)
December 13th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I love that face. That’s just whwacky!
December 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I’ve got a bone to pick with Mr. Jonathan Coulton. It was on this web site that my husband first learned of the Greenpeace “name that whale” thing. And now that Mr. Splashy Pants has won, I’ve got this song running through my head. Well, not so much a song as one line–”say a little prayer for Mr. Splashy Pants”. Of course, there is no whole song, because Mr. Coulton hadn’t written one. So I just have this one line going through my head. O-ver and o-ver and o-ver.
Only one man can make this better. Write the damn song. Please, I should add. Write the damn song please.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Great photo. Also, it’s reassuring to see there’s still corduroy going on in Connecticut.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I like how you refer to Yale as just “a college in New Haven.” Also for some reason you look rather small, perhaps even darfed by those hoisting you. Well look on the bright side, they may be huge, but at least they’re not destroying cities with their hands, right?…. Right?
December 13th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
dwarfed*
Also, this is where you met Hodgman, yes?
December 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It looks like they are about to throw you out a window.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Are you wearing a BLAZER?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Did you go to Yale, as in the famous Yale?! Impressive…
December 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I don’t know if grown-ups suck, but I do know that BEING a grown-up sure does suck at times.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:14 am
I agree with Brie. Especially if your a grown up nerd-geek. Like Me.
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Glad you could go educate the smart kids on how to be cool. Maybe sometime they’ll have me back for a master’s tea at Dear Old Yale, and I can do a tonsillectomy on someone in the Ezra Stiles courtyard.