On Columbus Day
You know that feeling you get when you wake up on Christmas morning? Or, for Jewish readers, that feeling you get when you wake up on Tax Day? Well, when my alarm went off at 10 this morning, I woke up...
View ArticleBadasses in History: Audie Murphy
Let’s start this week’s historical badass with a riddle. What’s black and blue and red all over? Answer: Chuck Norris after trying to fuck with Audie Murphy. “That’s impossible!” you say. Well, shut...
View ArticleGuys, Newt had an idea!
Newt Gingrich recently promised that by the year 2020, the United States would have a colony on the Moon if he is elected president in the 2012 election. Like literally, this was a thing he said. These...
View ArticleThe Sandra Fluke Rule
Last week, human colonoscopy Rush Limbaugh launched a three-day offensive against Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke after Fluke was denied the opportunity to testify before a congressional panel on...
View ArticleSimon Goes to the Movies Episode III: The Last Man on Earth
A weird thing about The Last Man on Earth, at least for someone like me who read I am Legend and saw I am Legend (with Will Smith) before seeing it is that Vincent Price is probably the last person I...
View ArticleSixty Hues of Sex, part 1
So I was reading the NY Times the other day, as part of my daily pretention ritual, and I happened upon a section that listed the top 10 best selling books of 2012. What was the best-selling book, you...
View ArticleWhat Your Favorite (Cheap, Shitty) Beer Says About You
It’s that magical time of the year again in Evanston: early March. Nobody has seen the sun in three months, finals are rapidly approaching as all of your friends at other schools gear up for spring...
View ArticleBartistics: Quantifying the Best Northwestern Bars
Sherman Ave editor Evander Jones teamed up with food blog What I’m Eating for Lunch’s curator Jameson Bulwinkle to provide a comprehensive statistical analysis—or bartistical analysis, if you will—of...
View ArticleHow to Feed Yourself and Your Unpaid Internship
There’s nothing like the sweet flavor of an unpaid internship. Seriously. There literally is nothing like that. Unpaid internships taste like shit, because most internships boil down to three-plus...
View ArticleThe Types of Men You Encounter While Abroad
Aren’t we all sick of the typical “Study Abroad Blog”? I mean, it’s #amazing and #lifechanging that you saw the “Le Tour Eiffel” and drank wine in Sicily and went to that weird building in Barcelona....
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