Unlocked Makes Courant Feel Sexy; Is On Gawker

Unlocked coeditor Yannick Bindert '10 contemplates Jacob D''s body.

Perennially Wes-bashing (More here. And here. And here.) Manhattan gossip blog Gawker, failing to do any sort of journalistic footwork on its own,* commented on an article in the Hartford Courant about Wesleyan's (unofficial) sex magazine, Unlocked.

Obligatory copy-pasted excerpt here:

"We note that Wesleyan, the most annoying liberal arts school in the US, has launched a new sex magazine called...wait for it...Unlocked. Uh, unless this is like Wesleyan's 267th different sex mag, may we just say about time, kids? Despite the fact that almost nothing in all of collegedom could be more tritely predictable than a sex magazine at Wesleyan (pictured: a photo shoot), this news was enough to warrant credulous coverage in the Hartford Courant"

(Picture of Jacob D '11 Via Gawker, Via the Courant)
Of course, there's a variety of anti-wes comments for you to read. My personal favorite comment is one by Mount Prion:

Mount_Prion 2:13 PM

I assumed that picture was cover art for a new MGMT album before I read the article.

Of course, both articles fail to take into account that nobody really believes Unlocked is "edgy," but rather, simply falls into the category of "another student magazine that focuses on things students like to do"... in this case, each other.
Hartford Courant: Wesleyan Sex Magazine Features NudityHartford Courant: Behind-the-scenes Unlocked photo shoot
Gawker: People Still Care About College Sex Mags
*Of course, i'm not doing much better by simply posting a link to the blogpost itself. Pot, meet kettle.

Patterns of Inheritance, Internet Opera

Come see Patterns of Inheritance, a "modern opera about the internet", by Ben Bernstein '10. This sounds ridiculously intriguing:

The entire libretto is composed of chopped up blog posts and Wikipedia articles, and the orchestrations are fragments as well. Using movement and a cast of five singers and eight instrumentalists, and six dancers, the opera attempts to paint a picture of the information we process, distribute, and inherit through the internet.

Basically, just imagine the lovechild of Phillip Glass and Gawker...a digital dream. You have 4 chances to catch the free show this Homecoming Weekend, so don't miss out!

Live performances at the '92 Theater
Dates/Times:
10/16 - 8pm
10/17 - 8pm
10/18 - 2:30pm, 8pm
Place: '92 Theater

Gawker vs. Michael Bay

Izaak Orlansky sends us this whiny rant from our good friends at Gawker.com, in which they bitch out Wes Film Department golden boy Michael Bay about this Verizon broadband ad in which he lampoons his own career. Come on Gawker, let the man blow things up in peace.

Gawker strikes again... and again... and again....

Tsk tsk gawker, you make fun of burning man and wesleyan at the same time? Why!!!!!!! Those places are so cool! I bet that took months of monkeys sitting at google prompts doing internet searches. How dare somebody on the internet be a turd-throwing-monkey! Let's all go cry now because of that apeish bully gawker...

“The prize,” said the [ Gawker], “for the most annoying romance in this week’s [New York Times] ‘Vows’ [column] goes to the following couple,” and I’ll bet you can guess which newly merged partnership that was. It seems that our last names, composed of too many syllables, as well as my alma mater, Wesleyan; the place we fell in love, Burning Man; our mothers’ occupations as artists; and my husband’s employer, David LaChapelle—in short, the quirky graphed points of my life—added up to an unredeemably idiotic persona (the lesson here, at the least, is that talking to the Times’ “Vows” column is a dangerous act of amour propre)
-Link(nymag.com).