MOUNT HOLYOKE ALUMNAE QUARTERLY
“…amid descriptions of South Hadley weather, trips to Springfield in a friend’s car and some “nice but smelly” cats making an appearance in her zoology lab, Adaline Chase, class of 1919, noted “college has been postponed until Oct 5.”
TWO BOSSY DAMES
It is 100% fine and good if you prefer to enjoy the products of research exclusively, but if you’re the sort of person who wants to cultivate some research process nerd tendencies, here are some of the things we do a lot.
HYPERALLERGIC
“Rock and roll stars tend to … lose the ability to focus on themselves as a person rather than as an image, and that’s dangerous.”
HYPERALLERGIC
Here are five episodes of The Joy of Painting to watch when you need Bob Ross to set you straight, kindly and lovingly.
TEDIUM
Perhaps those of us who ate SnackWell’s as children as a last resort because there were no other cookies in the house deserve to remember them unhappily. They weren’t meant for us in the first place.
TWO BOSSY DAMES
We both loooooove a mixtape, so we decided to create & swap playlists and interview each other about them. As I was listening, I noticed a theme: Dancing While Crying.
NOISEY
We can slag on hair metal as portrayed in Decline II as the easy target it is and laugh at the posing, the swagger, the fringed scarves, and the unmitigated, glossy id of it all, but we can’t deny its influence on music and culture in general.
TEDIUM
Gleemule: n. One unit of toothpaste, measured from bristle to bristle. (“Would you prefer CRESTULE?” asks The Game of Sniglets’s directions, conveying the surprising information that perhaps Gleem was a more popular mid-80s toothpaste than Crest.)
