Saturday, October 19, 2013

Issue 36 (2013-2014)

Issue 36 (October 15, 2013)

Sidebar
Happy Tuesday!
Fun Fact: Tuesday is the second day of the week if your week starts on Monday!

You Could Have At Least Tried to Take It With You
The play may be over, but that doesn’t mean the jokes are going to stop.

BISHCUPS!!!!
Field Hockey’s BishCup is TODAY!!! And Water Polo’s is on THURSDAY!!! Double excitement!

Writing Prompt of the Day
Write your own resume. Not a job resume or an acting resume: a resume of all your accomplishments that don’t fit anywhere else.

Lyrics Quiz
The horn on the bus goes
Beep beep beep
Beep beep beep
Beep beep beep
The horn on the bus goes
Beep beep beep
All through the town

Word of the Day
Catharsis

Number of the Day
192

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Haiku of the Day
Leaves of deep rich green
Branches, brittle, reaching up
CADDY SMELLED LIKE TREES
(The Sound and the Fury, anyone?)


 Articles

The Best Resume Ever
By: Matt Kerr (Highly Qualified)
The other day, I had to create a résumé for my acting workshop class. After realizing how pathetic my one high school show and zero outside training seemed on paper, I decided to revise. Here’s my newly updated résumé, AKA the most impressive one to ever exist.

NAME: Matthew Kerr
Height: 6’2”: His tall stature gives him the ability to provide awesome and good smelling hugs that leave people aching for more and shedding tears for at least five hours.
Eyes: Brown: These eyes once brought an orphan’s parents back to life. That orphan is now the president of the United States, Barack Obama. 
Hair: Brown: Gets it styled with child celebrities like Elle Fanning and the kid from “Nanny McPhee.” They gossip about Amanda Bynes a lot.
SKILLS:
•Can juggle both responsibilities and sticks of fire
•Can recite poetry while helping the elderly
•Can do four cartwheels
•Can talk to God
ACHIEVEMENTS:
•Winner of fifteen and a half Academy Awards®: Beat Daniel Day-Lewis eleven of those fifteen and-a-half times.
•At age seven, he released a debut album titled “Hope is a Teardrop Away.” It went platinum within an hour.
•Won the Olympics and then did a Wheaties commercial. It was super sick.
ROLES IN THEATRE
ROLE                     PRODUCTION
All of them            Book of Mormon and ten other Broadway shows      
Knight #1              Once Upon a Mattress

“Hello? Harvard University? Oh yes, of course I have time to talk.”

FIN

Lil Swag Does a Whoopsie: A Bedtime Story
By: Colin Garon (Shel Goldstein)
                Lil Swag wasn’t very big. In fact, he was very little. But Lil Swag was the fastest firetruck around. Every morning, he would zoom out of the firehouse and fight fires all day.
                After a long day of firefighting and lifesaving, Lil Swag liked to go out on the town and have a fun time. But Lil Swag didn’t party responsibly. Whoopsie! Lil Swag was a bad little fire engine and got hooked on high-octane gasoline and black tar diesel fuel.
                One night, Lil Swag got back to the firehouse very very late. He didn’t get much sleep at all! The next morning, there was a big, big fire in the city. But Lil Swag was too tired to fight the fire. Whoopsie! Lil Swag watched the entire city burn to ashes.
                Lil Swag was very sad that he had let his city burn. He decided to take a break from firefighting in order to get in touch with his inner soul. So he bought a one-way plane ticket to Europe. But Lil Swag forgot that the fact that he was a sentient fire truck didn’t alter his size relative to other vehicles. Whoopsie! Lil Swag couldn’t fit into the airplane.
                Lil Swag decided that it was time to turn his life around. He quit hard fuels cold truckey and began to earn back his sleep deficit. Then he returned to Trucknell University and earned a degree in 18th Century Slavic Fire Truck Folklore and Cuisine. Whoopsie! Lil Swag’s degree turned out to be pretty much useless.
After a long and discouraging job search, Lil Swag finally found a job at Startrucks.With his Startrucks employment, Lil Swag found a source of stability in a whoopsie-filled life. But there were many more whoopsies to come!
To be continued... (if Colin receives even the slightest bit of praise for this)

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