Oldboy is not for the faint of heart. The film’s plot is bizarre, but its acting and screenplay are powerful. Just make sure you watch it when you’re in a good mood and don’t mind being emotionally jarred.

Check out my article on West Side Independent, a news website devoted to the West Side.

Who knew a mention in a Bwog post could lead to this?

How much do I as a college kid know about health care reform? Despite the mass media coverage of the push to pass affordable, universal health care legislation, not much.

Jesus explains the health care industry.

Playing For Change | Song Around The World “One Love” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

My younger brother Harvey, who has become a contributing blogger to this hopelessly doomed enterprise, has something to say about what makes an engaging teacher. Listen up all you boring professors.

Certain teachers stand out, especially ones who say,

Oh, there’s the word “breast” again. Haha, everyone see Michael sit up straight when I read it?

THE PISS

Imagine finding 22 bottles of fetid piss in a college dorm room. Like any well-adjusted human being, you’re probably having a hard time. I’ll help.

Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs has a student group called Follies. My understanding is that they produce comedic videos for their annual shindig.

I was lucky enough to get involved, or rather enveloped in one, last semester. Minding my own business and trying to get some work done in the architectural catastrophe that is the SIPA building, I soon found myself as a backup dancer in a parody of Michael Jackon’s “Thriller.” Words cannot even begin…but perhaps the following Youtube video can.

Learning history is relearning history.

I didn’t know…

1. storytelling could be so captivating. (“Captivating” here means four college guys inundated with work up to their eyeballs chose to stay up until 3AM watching the show.)

2. Sam Adams, John’s firebrand cousin, is such a wanker in the beginning.