Tidbits of the Week

TIDBIT A: Memes!  Memes!  Memes!  Our new favorite meme developed from the LOLSMITHIES Tumblr, which uses that infamous drawing of a contemptuous looking, cigarette smoking Velma as a template for the ‘Jaded Smithie.’  LOLSmithie memes have cropped up all over Tumblr and Facebook, and the official page encourages fans to submit their own.  Smith, we’re counting on your to make this a thing.  Our school is just too easy to make fun of.

 

 

TIDBIT B: Recently Smith’d discovered that indie band on the rise, tUnE-yArDs is actually Smith alumnae Merill Garbus ’01 of Tenney House.  I’ve heard the named tUnE-yArDs being tossed around outside of Smith context multiple times, and guys, they’re kind of a big deal.  tUnE-yArDs is known more specifically across the indie landscape for Garbus’ beautiful, unique vocal textures, incredible live performance, and the “lo-fi/African style eccentricity” on her debut album, BiRd-BrAiNs (Prettymuchamazing.com).  We’ll be posting a lengthier article on tUnE-yArDs in due time, but for now, check out her sick website (http://tune-yards.com/), and listen to some jams from her upcoming release, w h o k i l l on Soundcloud.

TIDBIT C: Hire WOZQ Party DJs for your house’s Spring Weekend party!  Don’t have any hired entertainment yet?  Contact Sophia Lee at wozqpartydjs [@] smith.edu.

TIDBIT D: This weekend is Smith’s annual Earth Hour at 8pm on Saturday. Every year Smith hosts a “switch hunt” to turn off all of the lights on Smith campus and engulf us in an hour of darkness.  Don’t forget to turn off your lights, and just…don’t forget that this is happening, because otherwise you’ll just be all confused when you’re at your thesis carrel in the basement of Neilson and the lights suddenly go out.

TIDBIT E: Also rolling on through campus this weekend is Conbust, taking place from March 25th-27th, including a dance (oh my god) in the CC until 1am on Saturday night.  Check out the deets at the offical Conbust website.  Take what you will from their mission statement, and Smith’d highly, highly suggests going to, erm, watch this…if participating isn’t really your thing:

“ConBust is a sci-fi/fantasy/anime/gaming convention put on each spring by students at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. This three-day event provides fans of various geekdoms the opportunity to gather and enjoy their interests as a whole. Panels and workshops, as well as movie and anime showings, can be found in great abundance throughout the weekend. And of course, we have a fabulous array of guests who will be showing.”

ACB Revelation of the Week: Apparently there’s a lime tree in the Campus Center.  Really…what?  Pics or it doesn’t exist.

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