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Take out your phone for a moment, I wouldn’t doubt it’s close by. I'm also sure you just checked your latest text or browsed some tweets. Our obsession with our smart phones in this day and age is incredible; it's as if we treat them like our children. Think about it. We take them everywhere we go, we protect them, and we even dress them up. It seems like this year especially, phone cases have...

Don't panic: All Time Low is back

Pop-rock band All Time Low’s most recent album “Don’t Panic” provides longtime listeners with a sound and feel similar to its 2007 album “So Wrong, It’s Right:” melodies and backbeats that tie tracks together, poetic hooks and inventive track titles. “Don’t Panic” attracts new supporters to the band’s music while keeping long-standing fans close at heart.


America's Dangerous Obsession with Fandom: Politics and Sports

There are two ways to look at why Americans love being fans in every aspect of their lives: they want to belong to a group to feel a wider connection or they want to have a cause in order to narrow who/what they connect to.


Pure Fantasy Week 8

Week Eight: Star Wars and Foster for President

Pure Ramblings

In case you were living under a rock, you probably heard that Disney bought Lucasfilms this past week for $4 billion. Along with the purchase comes with the news that new Star Wars films are going to be made. That's right, Episodes VII, VIII, and IX are currently being planned.


The Drunk Tweet: How to be Professional on Social Media

Drunk texting: it’s a phrase everyone has become accustomed to in the last decade. People go out, get hammered, and text the first 25 people on their contact lists. Texts are safe; they are locked in the recipient’s phone, not to be shared (for the most part) with anyone else.


Pure Fantasy Week 7

Week Seven: I Wasn't Wrong About Chris Johnson...

Pure Ramblings


The New Face of Politics

There's one image few today will fail to recognize: the president's face outlined in red, yellow and blue, "hope" the only word attached. This poster and emoticon has been attached to most of President Obama's first and second campaigns, as well as a large part of his presidency. Campaign posters have not always been so simplistic.


Pure Fantasy Week 6

Week Six: Saying Hello to Old Friends, and Woe to the Ravens' D

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Pure Fantasy Week 5

Week Five: Chuckstrong and the Feel-Good Folly

Hey guys, guess what?! My advice was as close-to-perfect as it's ever going to get last week!

Just to pat myself on the back:

Fred Jackson and CJ Spiller bombed, like the rest of the Bills. The wanna-be dynamic duo rushed for 29 and 24 yards, respectively.


A 2012-2013 Welcome Back Advice from Yours Truly

Hello there ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another (or first) year of Ithaca College. I invite you all to “ooh” and “aah” at this time, for there will be no more “oohing” and “aahing” afterwards.

And now that you have finished your marveling, let me break this down to you.


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