Zoë Lance.

  • Culture Connoisseur: The Strawberry Doughnut from Donut Man

    Full disclosure: I am a bagel person. If given the choice between a doughnut and a bagel, I will pick just about any bagel with just about any accoutrement. I usually have very little remorse about picking a bagel over a doughnut. Unless, however, that doughnut is one of two varieties: 1. A Krispy Kreme…

  • Link Party: 2/23-2/27

    I had a great week, and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. This chat between two editors, who had never met before but tried to get the other to feel the most profound sense of dread and panic from reading an email,  is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a…

  • Think Tank: The Dress

    I had totally planned to write something else for today’s Think Tank, but Adrian told me that I needed to write about The Dress so here I am. If you haven’t seen or heard about The Dress yet, it’s this photo of a dress that’s been circulating the Internet today. The original poster asked her followers…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Everlane

    Now that you guys know all about my aversion to shopping in a store, I’ll tell you about my new favorite (online) retailer: Everlane. Everlane’s claim to fame — which all started with one t-shirt, by the way — is that there’s no middleman between it and the customer. The price you pay for something in…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Anthropology via the Internet

      I’m one of those senior students who waited until her last year to finish her last lower division general education class, so here I am in ANT 112: Anthropology via the Internet. The name is kind of misleading, because I originally thought that it was going to be looking at the Internet through an…

  • Link Party: 2/16-2/20

    This week was not a good one for me, creatively or academically. But I’m bouncing back, and will have more posts next week. But here’s what I  was able to read: 1. I like to think that this profile of The New Yorker query proofreader Mary Norris is a projection of my future. 2. Ruth Bader…

  • Link Party: 2/9-2/13

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The only Kanye West-Beck-Grammys article that I actually agreed with. My favorite sentence: “Kanye’s confidence and self-worth is Tibetan monk-level solid and it will not be brought down because you are trying to throw mud balls at a blimp.” 2. Stephen Marche on rereading Hamlet and The Inimitable…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Whiplash

      I’m dreadfully behind on newer television (I really need to get it together for Better Call Saul and Broad City), but I saw a fantastic movie I’ve been thinking about all week: Whiplash. Whiplash has been getting a lot of awards buzz lately, and it’s well-deserved. The semi-autobiographical movie is about a young music student, played…

  • Link Party: 2/2-2/6

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. An incredible feature on Annie Dillard. 2. The future of cursive handwriting. 3. What happens when pockets of the Internet evaporate. 4. A very interesting take on cohabitation, and what happens to your books. 5. The book that is truly the master class in hailing Satan. And a bonus: Valentino’s…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Showcase of Excellence

    I’ve been a part of the honors college at Cal Poly Pomona since my first year at the university, and on Saturday I was lucky enough to be part of the Showcase of Excellence. I volunteer at the outreach event every year, as the program needs its students to help run it.  This year, however,…