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EyePoke: Just Desserts

How to lose friends and alienate people

Oh Sarah Palin, is there anything to which you are not tangentially relevant?

The first of a two-part series on truck-based dessert foods.

Reading doesn't count unless someone sees you doing it.

Why try to forget about all the fun stuff you missed out on when you could relive the disappointment?

eyePod!


EyePoke: Deceptive Lures Edition

EyePoke: Book of Revelations Edition

This Judd Apatow guy is really going places.

Frank McCourt and David Sedaris are better writers than Miley Cyrus.

Indie rocker identifies with Wes Anderson, likes The Life Aquatic.

"Green" is an adjective with a variety of meanings and uses in our language!

The Eye encourages you to buy certified organic and fair trade coffee



EyePoke: "At $355, the Chloe swimsuit is a deal" Edition

The Eye maintains that the following things suck:

Days on Campus sucks.

No, seriously, Days on Campus sucks. And it lies to you.

Conspicuous consumption sucks. (Unless it's a $355 bikini.)

Passover does not suck. But Wikipedia ... does?


EyePoke: Culture Clash Edition

Once again, Columbia monolith vs. Manhattanville individuals: this time, in photos

Eye E-I-C overtaken by hostile mononucleosis culture

Hungry Jewish students float in an ocean of improperly slaughtered meats

At the confluence of storytelling, Africa, rap, and outrage, there lies spoken word

No conflict here: bhangra seduces us all

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Eyepoke: High Culture / Low Culture Edition

Now what, pray tell, is a "confetti canon"?

Sweet Valley High exegesis

Campus-themed haiku: Bwog rip off?

You know, provocateurs who insist that "gore-porn" is art aren't really that provocative anymore.

Overdosing on analysis, not drugs: yes, that's what Columbia and Harvard bands do.

Read more: Eyepoke, Quickeye

EyePoke: Superlatives Edition

Under the sterling aegis of Jeffrey Sachs, we can make this the bestest world ever!!

A letter from the editor about the poorest, richest girls

The meta-est Eyepoke ever, in which a campus blog links to a campus magazine article about a campus magazine

The best-written review of the worst book ever

The tastiest-sounding review of the tastiest meal ever

Most avant-garde Eyepoke ever

Read more: Eyepoke, Quickeye

EyePoke: Dubious Trends Edition

Dressing up to spend the night in your dorm

Decomposing garbage in your dorm

"Sailor-esque colors"

Feminists breaking the glass ceiling of hipness

And one unequivocally good trend: Judd Apatow stoner comedies. But before that, 6 paragraphs about relationship dramas.

Read more: Eyepoke, Quickeye

EyePoke: Terrible Misunderstandings Edition

Manatees as the key to ethical (and adorable) expansion? Brilliant!

Silver Sushi? Awesome!

Roscoe Jenkins and Britney's vagina are easily confused

I thought I was in a cellar in Paris, but really it was just a basement room in a church.

Hey, look, it's an article! No, wait—it's just a list of New Jersey stereotypes.

Two years of assiduous editing and all we've got is a "kind of incomprehensible" "faltering effort"? We've made a huge mistake.

Read more: Eyepoke, Quickeye

EyePoke: Subconscious Geography Edition

The pantsuit is what's keeping Hillary from the nomination, femininity

It really speaks volumes about the id of The Eye when the name chosen for a fictitious professor is "Rutherford Edgemont," which are actually two towns in north Jersey and Westchester, respectively.

Breaking: California kids choose to leave California the first chance they get

Nellie McKay: like a feisty, vapid, downtown version of Jewel

"Mogharabi lifted a portion of Farimani's design from Acephale, the dissident surrealist journal compiled by Georges Bataille that proposed to celebrate the death of Louis XVI and called for human sacrifice. But Mogharabi was quick to point out that Futura, the font of choice of a number of avant-garde publications contemporaneous to Acepahle, is also used by Chanel." Yup. It's about 1000+ words of that.
Enjoy!


EyePoke: Fetishes & Fixations Edition

Dreamy man-children, oh goodness, how endearing

It's Hip! It's Culture! It's Cutting-edge! It's hip, cutting-edge culture! Hey, that sounds good, let's say it again!

Cassette tape obsessives are the new vinyl obsessives!

And it's no surprise that a little cucumber and some cinnamon buns make for aph-ro-deee-sia

And that Saint Augustine...he was bringin sexy before it ever left!


QuickEye: Reductionary Equations Edition

Money + Money + Money + NYU = Culture ?

New Museum + School - Pedagogical Method = Art ?

Teenagers + Live Music = Club Revenue - Bar Tabs = Out of Business

Misery + Exhaustion = A Great Way to Live ?

Bacteria + Yeast + "A Few Days of Growth" + "Loving Care from its Health-Conscious Parents" = Something Edible ?

Read more: Eyepoke, Quickeye

EYEPOKE: Pretentious??

I am not pretentious!!

Maybe it's because Columbia is pretentious.

This movie is not pretentious.

Stephen Merritt, on the other hand, is a touch pretentious.

Wine does not have to be pretentious!


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