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QuickSpec: Kneel Before Spec's Work, Ye Mighty, And Despair! Edition
OzymandiasAriel Hudes pluralizes "Roar, Lion, Roar". And, for that matter, uses it in a column. In all caps. As the last line.

"Street names [sic] carved by old cow trails." Talking about... Boston? London? Oh, um, Staten Island. Cow trails? I bet that fact came from a book.

Spec boldly asks a question nobody has ever asked before, ever: "Is this really art?"

An AdHoc founder compares AdHoc to the French Revolution. Um.

Eager not to be one-upped, Jordi Reyes-Montblanc calls Columbia "a great institution endowed by God with powers and privileges beyond mere mortal men and women of the blue collar working kind." Quick, somebody give him an editorial position. Or at least a column.

Posted by gender?: #1 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 10:03 AM (from campus)
jordi is male
Posted by Bwog...: #2 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 10:03 AM (from campus)
Isn't this the Day of Reckoning?

For housing, I mean?
Posted by ZvS (Site staff): #3 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM (from campus)
Oops! Corrected.
Posted by oneupd: #4 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM (from campus)
not wanting to be oneupd? oneupd.com
Posted by alexw: #5 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Every Ariel Hudes article reads like an Onion op-ed.

Posted by does anyone know: #6 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM (from campus)
when housing is posted?
Posted by Hmmmm: #7 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM (from campus)
As a native Staten Islander, I'm a little confused about the "noiseless, empty" streets. Did that Spec writer actually go to Staten Island? The traffic is terrible, and the streets are filled with huge, gas-guzzling SUVs.
Posted by Ariel: #8 (in reply to #5) · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM
is a sweet girl and I think that article did have some resonance for a bunch of freshman showing up on campus. Bwog's coverage for one, has also blown sans lydia--your "ardent wit", is sometimes just lame sarcasm, and bashing everyone around you.
Posted by i don't know: #9 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM
whether ariel hudes or the copy editors are responsible, but it truly makes me sad that spec is talking about a "right of passage"
Posted by ...: #10 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM (from campus)
Why is "ardent wit" in quotes? Did someone say that?
Posted by alexw: #11 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Yeah, please cite your sources, #8.
Posted by The King of Spain: #12 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM (from campus)
Can we stop to discuss how Jordi Reyes-Montblanc has simply gone off the deep end?
Posted by adhoc: #13 · reply · track
April 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM
to be fair, the adhoc founder was merely taking on another absurd suggestion - that her magazine was like barack obama's campaign. while fighting metaphorical overreach with even greater metaphorical overreach hasn't traditionally been the most successful rhetorical strategy, bwog ought to have given her slightly more rope here.

for the record, though, I always found adhoc's entire premise absurd. "progressive" voices don't need an outlet at columbia; they shine through in virtually every publication by default.
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