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...best freestylist? In the warm confines of Mount Baker's lodge, Terje Haakonsen steps onto a makeshift podium as the Golden Duct Tape is hung around his neck to the cheers of a couple hundred soaking patrons. A crackling stereo plays the Norwegian national anthem. Haakonsen grasps his plastic bag of award loot--gift certificates, lift tickets, stickers and assorted boarding goodies--and hurls it into the writhing mass of teenagers. It isn't Olympic, but it is the golden moment he feels snowboarding is all about...
...first song on singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco's new album, Little Plastic Castle, starts off with a jolt. We've come to expect shocks from DiFranco--she's a rock maverick, a singer who owns her own label (Righteous Babe Records of Buffalo, New York), who refuses to sign to a major record company and who performs often raucous punk-folk songs about music-industry greed, abortion and her own bisexuality. DiFranco is so fiercely protective of her work that she was miffed when a recent cover of one of her songs, 32 Flavors, by newcomer Alana Davis added...
...midst of the history section, I saw it: a perforated Coop book card, enclosed in its yellow plastic square, velcroed to the bookshelf: "Hist. 1155. Twersky. no order rec'vd" was its curt message, as it lorded over an empty shelf, never to be filled with books for a class that would not be offered...
...known Professor Twersky, but last Tuesday, seeing that tag, I felt I had an obligation to those that had known him and appreciated him. Having your course scrawled on a card in a yellow plastic holder is not a way to be memorialized; it is cheap, gaudy, insensitive, insulting. The fluorescent lights bounced off the pressed wood shelf, mocking the empty space as students rushed by, arms full of books...
Other students will take laundry out of a dryer and put it in a plastic bag, but only if the owner is more than a few minutes late in returning to the laundry room. And some have no compunctions at all; they will happily allow freshly-washed whites to languish on dirty washer tops for hours...