Why haven’t we yet found out who sent the message in ‘Star Trek IV’?
This week I am really taking full advantage of The Hoot’s promise to print whatever its staff writers want to write. Does the target audience exist for this piece? The hell if I know. Will anybody read it? Don’t care. I wanted to write it, and so now it exists. Or well, will exist. Obviously […]
I predicted every major plot twist in ‘Severance’ and you can, too!
“I WAS RIGHT!!!!”–-A text that my friends have been seeing in their inboxes more often than they would normally expect. But as I’ve worked my way through “Severance” over the past few weeks, and as more and more of my predictions for the show have proven to be scarily accurate, the desire to gloat at […]
The movie theater experience is dying
I am a proud movie person. I love watching movies, arguing about movies, learning about movies … you get the picture (no pun intended). I can tell you who directed “Sleepless in Seattle,” who won Best Actress at the 2012 Academy Awards and why precisely “Gone With The Wind” still reigns supreme as the highest-grossing […]
Space tourism is dumb. Believe me, I’m a ‘Star Trek’ fan.
My dad and I are driving home from the grocery store, Bluetooth-assisted iTunes providing a nice backing track to the journey. The song changes, and my dad points at the car radio display. The tune playing is “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf. “You know what this song is?” He asks. “What?” I reply, […]
Was it ever OK to buy a Tesla?
When I was walking back to my car the other day after class, I saw a white Tesla Model 3 parked behind Spingold with two bumper stickers on it. The first read: “Vintage Tesla: Pre Madness Edition,” and the second read “Tax the Rich; Feed the Poor.” Now, I know absolutely nothing about the owner […]
Reintroducing the Brandeis Judges
If you’ve ever had the great misfortune of seeing the Brandeis Judges mascot in-person (or if you’ve ever gotten a 404 error on the Brandeis website), you will know that our weirdly fuzzy, weirdly large rendition of the great Louis D. is beyond terrifying. With a chin square and sharp enough to make even the […]
I asked for socks for Hanukkah. Here’s why.
Yes, I did legitimately ask for white crew cut socks for Hanukkah. Technically I asked for white socks and a hair diffuser (a girl’s gotta have her hair care routine after all), but the white socks were definitely the part that I was the most excited about. That may sound a little strange considering that […]
Brandeis at 76 is still searching, still Jewish and still not Harvard
Earlier this week, while procrastinating writing a fairly important essay, I found myself randomly reading Brandeis-related Wikipedia articles. I read all about the most famous professors and alums, the best years in athletics and the dog to whom the now-defunct coffee shop Chum’s owes its name. And because I was really feeding the procrastination kick, […]