Claire Kunzier, editor 

Why people still need to talk about this is astonishing to me. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. For literal decades people have poorly chosen tasteless costumes to wear for Halloween and costume parties in general, but our focus is on the holiday. Dressing up in a traditional garb or a controversial figure or as not your culture and/or race is not cool. No, Jessica, you would not look like a cute Native American in your Amazon costume because you are white. Jason, maybe don’t dress up like Brian Laundire because he literally murdered someone and it’s not funny. The idea that you can dress up as whatever you want really makes it seem as if there are no boundaries, but there are. You can dress up as something and be racist, homophobic, prejudiced and just overall offensive and it will be your own fault as to why this is an issue. Just use your brain when picking out your costume, please. 

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

There is something about watching a group of British men and women, with their accents and lack of aggression, unlike Americans, bake things in a competition. Amazing. It is all of the intensity and action other cooking competition shows have, but minus the anger and deep rooted anxiety that these shows can cause. The only angry Brit that cooks is Gorden Ramsey, everyone else is chilling and nice and such good sports. What else could you need other than 12 adults making various baked goods for two people who apparently have all the knowledge of baked goods in order to be the winner? Do I know what they win? No, but apparently winning is good enough for hundreds of people to apply every year. I personally use baking as a calm and relaxing tool, much like the contestants, but would cry aggressively if I were judged on it. That’s why I watch and view the struggles from my couch, eating my homemade chocolate chip cookies and vibing with my excess serotonin. 

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

I sometimes have a hard time falling asleep. A lot of those sometimes happen on Sunday night when I have four out of my five classes the next day starting at 9:30 a.m.. There is probably a deep rooted psychological reason, but I am neither a psych major nor someone who really wants to deep dive into that. Honestly, it is more likely that my body is starting to stress because of all the work I usually have during the week. I do homework on Sunday night so I am waking myself up and overall I have energy left over from doing nothing all weekend, but I think there’s more to it. As if the universe sends me karma from the week prior and is like “let’s fuck with this bitch realllllll good” as if I need more things to deal with. Am I wrong? Because some weeks I’m chilling Sunday, especially when I’m not struggling the week prior, but it’s the nights where the next day is gonna suck so bad that sleep is never gonna happen. It’s karma for something I did even though logically it probably has to do with real scientific reasons. IDK Mercury is in retrograde and everything is a mess. 

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

Happy Wednesday luvs, I have a story to tell you. A year ago, I took a trip to the lovely Kutztown University to visit my friend, who was being COVID-19 safe, for a bit of separation from my family. SO, we spent some wonderful time catching up and hanging out and doing just as much as you can in the middle of Pennsylvania. Now before I get into the meat of the story, everything was cleaned deeply and we were all aware and consenting to what was happening.

Carrying on, so what you do in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a pandemic, with a bunch of art students is pretty obvious. You give yourself tattoos! My friend’s friend, always a great start to a story, bought a tattoo gun off of Amazon and had been practicing for the past couple of months. After we cleaned and sanitized everything, I might have gotten some big toe tattoos, on my left a smiley face and on my right a sad face. Now it’s been a year and on my left toe there is one eye and half a smile and my right is just eyes. I need to get them redone because they are supreme and I enjoy them, which is where my question comes from, how tf do I do that? Tattoo places have a minimum and I’m not trying to pay $80 for toe tattoos, my friend’s friend has moved away for work and I don’t think it would be smart to buy myself a tattoo gun, I will most likely do something stupid. Lmk what I should do kunzierc1@lasalle.edu.

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

As a legal adult in all regards, I wish, I hope, that La Salle gets a student-centered bar on campus once again. I am tired of taking the subway and Ubering home from Center City or Ubering to and from Manayunk. I am not made of money nor do I have the extra effort to put forth. Many years ago, there used to be a bar, The Hideaway, right off of campus that students were very fond of. I have heard stories from alumni of the fact that there was a bar and that it did close for several reasons, but it was an overall fun time. I understand the University not wanting to promote drinking on campus or to create any issues with our North Philly neighbors, but come on, can we at least have one thing? We are in a food desert, with ordering food increasing in price regularly, we don’t have anything truly close to us like other Big 5 schools do. Someone, please, throw us a bone, open a bar and don’t be shady and let underage kids drink. They have frats, us juniors and seniors are aging out of frats and can legally drink, so why not give us a walkable location to do so? It sounds good to me, I don’t know about anyone else, but it definitely would be safer to have one place people can go to decrease the risk of drunk driving or getting kidnapped by an Uber driver. It could definitely increase the value of campus to prospective students and maybe even parents, especially if the bar is nicer. You guys think about it and find me a financial backer and I will get it started for us. 

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

I don’t know if it’s just me, but every show, no matter the genre, has their main characters just dropping the L word to any shawty. I’m not talking about the show “The L Word” but the phrase “I love you” (ILY) which is a common way to affirm one’s feelings for another, also a way to make me feel uncomfortable but that’s something we’re not getting into. While I clearly don’t have words of affirmation as a love language, I do have common sense and knowledge that the word love and the phrase “I love you” is a big thing and you can’t just say it to anyone. In real life, people take their time and develop feelings at varying speeds within their own unique situation, but in the TV world, falling in love apparently takes three episodes and one big fight for one of the biggest affirmations to just come out of one person’s mouth. Time in shows is obviously different and moves at a much faster pace than real life, but normally a season is a month long with each episode being a week, or there’s no time construct and we’re all confused. In dramas, sitcoms, comedies and teen shows, the month = season and episode = week is usually how it goes and these shows just so happen to be the worst ILY droppers. There have been seasons where characters go from hating one another then professing their love to the other in the next episode, AND THAT’S JUST NOT ALWAYS TRUE LIKE HOW THEY WRITE IT OUT TO BE. In all relationships, especially teen ones, people actually have no idea what they’re doing and aren’t just out here professing their love in big dramatic scenes. Also, it’s okay to not recepticate ILY when you don’t actually know if you’re in love yet. It’s worse for someone to say it and not mean it than to be honest and say they don’t know yet, but here are my true feelings. It’s not the end of the world like it’s shown in shows and movies, being in love isn’t the point of a relationship, it’s growing and being happy within a partnership that has emotions; fulfillment for both people. There needs to be communication on these feelings first —again, not a topic for right now, but take a comm class and figure it out. TV isn’t real life, but damn, they need to stop acting like people just suddenly fall in love with everyone they’ve ever dated after a month of dating. And that’s the tea.

Claire Kunzier, Editor 

Don’t be a liar. You talk shit. I talk shit. I’m sure the brothers speak about people while they’re not involved within the conversation. Everyone does it. As a senior in college, I have learned that if you do talk about people when they’re not there it can either be left in a vault of privacy or you’re gonna get a text calling you out, it’s just the fax, not printer. The best way to deal with the drama is to just own up to it because you did it, there’s always witness, you can’t talk shit without another person. Your response to getting called out shows your maturity level and if you try to lie and pretend that you didn’t or try to throw someone else under the bus, your shit talking card will be revoked in my book. I will never share my knowledge and/or my opinions with you ever again if I know you threw someone under the bus to get the attention off of yourself. I do think that while it sucks to have people talking about it behind your back, maybe take their words with a grain of salt and a bit of interest into what is truthful. I heard through the grapevine, a couple people deep, that I am intimidating. Do I want to be standoffish or intimidate people or intentionally try to act that way? Of course not, but I have been and now I know that I need to pay attention to the fact that I just am intimidating to some people and maybe should change some of the actions I do. Also, just because someone is talking to someone else about a third party, it doesn’t mean there is malicious intent, it could mean a lot of things. It could be that the person is just frustrated and needs to let out some of their feelings to someone else. They could need to communicate how they feel to figure out the best way to have a conversation with the person they are talking about and not to. There can be a plethora of non-malicious intentions for talking shit and I stand by personally not being mad at others for doing them. Now, if you are malicious, maybe look at yourself and figure out why, especially if there is no reason to be shit talking that person. You could just not like them, which is a bit of a reason, but you need a little more reasoning to talk shit than just because. In any shit talking, if there is malicious intent and no specific reasoning, just admit that you are a shitty person. Shit talking is the way that I deal with all the shit I have thrown at me on a daily basis. I confide in my friends and sometimes I share too much with people that I don’t trust enough and it bites me in the ass. Oh well. I’ll never deny any true shit talking I’ve done, but I don’t condone being a shitty person and maliciously shit talking people for no reason. You always gotta have a good reason for opening up a can of worms or else they’ll get everywhere, especially if you don’t pay attention. 

P.S. Talking to your mom is shit talking.

Enrique Carrasco, Editor 

David hates seed oil. David is against big pharma. David uses my sink even though he has his own sink and he should just learn to unclog a sink like a normal person. Also, every time I have friends over, David always finds some way to scare them away. One might even say he scares the hoes. David for some reason always has his light on even if he’s not home, and it makes it really weird for when I need something from him and he’s not home. He’s really dumb, and really stupid, and he smells good bad, and drinks unpasteurized milk and I wish David would just behave like a normal roommate and like a normal managing editor. Also, Dave always likes to censor what I say and that is NOT cool. 

Editor, Claire Kunzier 

I don’t know about other people, but I have a hard time just sitting in class. Call me quirky, but a bitch cannot just sit and take notes and actively listen without shaking my leg and/or doodling, both aggressively and lightly. When my attention is really poor, either due to lack of sleep, over caffeination and/or my brain doesn’t want to work, I tend to need an anchor to the classroom to prevent myself from mentally going off into the distance. Doodling has alway been my go to when I need to keep everything moving, also sorry to anyone who sits near me, my leg just doesn’t stop shaking. The drawing to the right is a monkey I drew during my 9:30 am class this past Monday, the class topic was journalism by the way. It started with his teeth, which I was going for a vampire, but his right eye was actually just a circle I drew that got in the way of my vampire vision. SO, he is now a monkey, of no particular species, and he’s angry, idk why, maybe someone wanted to fight. Then in my next class, where we were speaking about health communication, I couldn’t stop drawing sheet ghosts, as you can see in the picture on the left. I like the one with the heart, the vibe is just right with that one. Anyway, my point is I feel like I do lots of doodling on my notes and my classmates don’t. Do you doodle on your notes? If so, send them to me, kunzierc1@lasalle.edu, and we can start exchanging our favorite doodles.