I wish this excuse would work

I apologize in advance for any future procrastination this link to icanhascheezburger may cause.

Thesis thesis thesis...thesis!

I want to take this opportunity to raise a LOLcat to all you seniors (and their advisers!) who are done with your theses today! Prost!

Because WesFest is on the Horizon...

(plus, it's CATURDAY!)

Wesleying: Still Waiting for Our Book Deal

So the founder of everybody's favorite racial deconstructing blog Stuff White People Like, Christian Lander, just got a $300,000 book deal. According to the NYTimes, this is part of a larger trend of popular blogs getting attention from publishers... including I Can has Cheezburger, of lolcat fame.

Even the snarky can retain a bit of wonder. On Wednesday, Mr. Lander, who is white, added his 92nd entry to Stuff White People Like: Book Deals.

“White people,” he wrote, “like having their dreams come true when they least expected it.”

Uh, apparently all we need is more snark and 1.6 million hits a day and we're set.

WestCo Guest Lecture Series: Lolcats and Communes

In addition to the Lolcats lecture being given at 10 by Ben Bernstein '10, Yotam Marck (who doesn't, in fact, go here, but is the cousin of Izaac Lichter-Marck '11) will be talking about his experiences as a member of the Naharovet, a communal youth movement in Israel.

In Izaac's words,

"Yotam has lived in a commune for three years and is an expert on cooperative living and the kibbutz movements, zionism, marxism, and ping pong. come steal his ideas pineapple top tree grew where the jack o lantern plate."

Date: Tonight, February 10
Time: 9:00 and 10:00
Location: WestCo Lounge

WestCo Guest Lecture Series: Lolcats

This Sunday, February 10th, the first iteration of the WestCo Guest Lecture Series will be delivered by Ben Bernstein '10. Ben will be giving a "cultural, social, and artistic critique of the lolcat phenomenon, complete with pictures, which makes a lot of sense, because the lecture's on lolcats. It will take place in the WestCo Lounge starting at 10 PM. These lectures typically run about half an hour, with time for questions afterwards. There will be food, because this is typically combined with WestCo snacks, but probably no cheeseburger.

Date: Sunday, February 10
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: WestCo Lounge (knock, somebody will let you in)


For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, the original post on the Lecture Series is here.