Post-Game Report: The Wish List

Let's see how we did. Bold means accomplished. More recap to come soon.

1. Honor the Entry
2. Get Basils no earlier than 1:30am
3. Somehow break into west
4. Tag Stadium 110 somewhere on campus
5. duct tape someone who hasn't graduated (from Carleton) yet.
6. Get Mark riled up about something that no one really cares about
7. Dance to Yadda Yadda Yadda
8. Consume more than one bottle of the cobra.
9. Play stadium 110 or chandeliers
10. drunk dial toto
11. drunk skype Alfredo
12. Cheers the Mark Olson Way
13) Raveball
14) Duct tape Nonberg
15) Let the good times roll
16) Buy a keg
17) Drink beer from the keg
18) Have a keg toss
20) Go through the Gauntlet
21) Play YES! by LMFAO
22) Have a damn good time
23) And duct tape Nonberg
24) Shotgun in Stadium
25) Make a freshman do a keg stand
26) Make a freshman drink the cobra
28) Eat tavern breakfast
29) Drink in the afternoon
30) Present a Powerpoint
31a) Get accosted by security because they think we're students
31b) Explain to security that we're alumni
32) Play Beirut / Flip Cup
33) Get Basil's before 1:30 AM
34) Make plans with drunk Craig
35) Evade Security
36) Talk about how great Stadium 110 was, and how other people "don't even know"
37) Oh yeah, swim to victory


21 out of 37 = 56%.
BUT we are grading on a curve.
So I'd say we did quite well.

Thinking

So I was thinking again. Yes. Thinking. And I came up with this theory that actually isn't too crazy:

Hip-Hop is the modern form of Shakespearean wit.

By this I mean, Hip-Hop makes use of clever word play and rhyme to convey a message. While the message is not always profound, creative use of language is widely respected and adds to the meaning of the music. My most obvious example is, of course, "Yada Yada Yada" by Tech N9ne (and many of his other songs as well). The most respected rappers (artistically) are those who create sharp-witted rythmic rhyme, such as Mos Def, Black Thought (The Roots), Slug (Atmosphere), Tupac, and the Notorious B.I.G., to name a few.
So yeah, I was thinking about that earlier. Instead of packing.