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...script was selected for this year's show through a comp process which typically involves eight to 12 applicants. Prospective writers are given general guidelines, such as the number of characters and that there must be an equal number of male and female characters."It's very hard to write a Pudding show, so we give the writers broad guidelines so they have something to work with, says Joshua E. Lachter '09, one of the show's producers and also a member of the Crimson's business board. "Each year people interpret them very differently, though it inevitably stays very...
...usual array of old men reminiscing about seeing Ferlinghetti, I was floored when I received three angry calls in a row objecting to the obscenity of the material I had just played. I dismissed their complaints as the missives of crotchety old people, until the third caller threatened to write to the FCC. Suddenly, these callers weren’t just annoyances but serious threats. I hurriedly faded down Ferlinghetti’s “Junkman’s Obbligato” just as I heard him go on about “drying our drawers / on garbage fires...
...time when I didn’t mind listening to seven-minute songs with two tempo changes in the first sixty seconds. When the Furnaces sang lyrics demanding that they notarize my will, I thought they were actually kind of brilliant. Now, I want them just to write a song I actually like. On their sixth album, “Widow City,” the brother-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger continue their brand of bluesy, loosely constructed indie, going to town with the various instruments Matthew has managed to find (this includes a Chamberlin). According...
...It’s hard enough to write these speeches without having people either offering you advice or asking you where you are in the speech, or what you’re doing,” Rudenstine said...
...world filled with writers who write badly and stories that sell on shock value alone, there’s something satisfying about a book that manages to excel at both: butchering the English language while writing about a topic at once vulgar and banal. Hence my joy upon hearing of the release of “That Bitch: Protect Yourself Against Women with Malicious Intent,” a book that refers to the fairer sex as “domestic terrorists” or “Al’Qa’ida in high heels and lipsticks...