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i'm disappointed that "maker upper" didn't become a catchphrase around here

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Friday, 4 August 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

you never know, man...it still could happen.

i wish nick would start posting here again. he could use the screenname "Jayceon Terell Taylor."

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

(and if he doesn't jess should)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Voice welcomes EIC #4

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 14 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

is he working for pitchfork again?

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/38116/Wolf_Eyes_The_Driller#38116

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

he was reviewing in the dance column on stylus a while back, maybe still is.

― bad hair day house (fandango), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i'm better at telling lies than anyone else i know

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't believe you.

― ONIMO's fish might turn into lizards (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

has this been discussed yet?

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ a college professor explaining to her students who Diplo is as part of a lecture

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

He's like the Dane Cook for creepy undergrad Harvard girls.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Diplo or Nick Sylvester? I mean, either is applicable, I think.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I never even hated this guy or had it out for him or whatever but man some people in that comments section are really falling over backwards to defend his actions.

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

lol at the guy compare sylvester to Chris Morris

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

lol that this occurred at Harvard Law

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

This thread needs Colin Meeder, stat.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

"classes with riff"
cast: jake gyllenhaal -- nick sylvester
old guy from blade -- male presenter
wynona ryder -- female presenter

the soundtrack would be pretty good.

― Nicolas Boisvert Novak (Cliffsky!), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

he is stunningly inarticulate and those Harvard students don't seem much brighter.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

They don't privilege public speaking at Harvard AT ALL.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

what shookout said. all I kept thinking about while watching that was what an incredible waste of time that class was, how that was a bush league lecture idea that I would expect at Cambridge Junior College and not Hah-vahd Law. At one point, you can see a student's laptop and she's surfing the net when the instructor's dad is rambling on.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

There's a reason Harvard is sinking in the ratings, guys.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I like Nick, but I kept wanting to jump in there and tell his story for him, since he didn't seem to be doing a very good job at it himself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

writer not being a very good public speaker shockah. Nick seems VERY young...jeezus, do the kids these days really say "like" that much? I thought it was just my niece. Who is in 4th grade.

if that video is representative, then all I can say is that Harvard must have been very easy for you D.P.

xpost

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

jeezus, do the kids these days really say "like" that much? I thought it was just my niece. Who is in 4th grade.

People have been complaining about kids using "like" for, like, 30 years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe this is a class.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nick is right about NBA Jam, though. Cool game.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the professor describes M.I.A. as "rising to pop stardom."

― mike powell (mike powell), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

she's gonna be huge, fellas!

― gear (gear), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have to be holding a microphone to speak in college seminars these days?

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

People have been complaining about kids using "like" for, like, 30 years.

Yes, and most grow out of doing it ad nauseum by the time they've finished high school, if not before them. Or so I'd thought. I'm not talking about casual use of the idiom, which is now commonplace. I'm talking about using "like" as a pause in diction when you appear to have no clue what the fuck you want to, like, say and shit.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

So what do you say instead: "ummm" or "y'know"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I usually pause and don't say anything.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

"dude"

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

student: "How would you feel if the reporters on the staff of the NY Times took the same approach? If they said: I'm going to toss my notions of objective journalism, to the extent that those still exist, out the window and I'm going to explore through the art form of newspaper publishing how I personally feel about writing and what that means?"

Nick: "I think that sounds great!"

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this is pretty gross to me.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/Colbert-truthiness.jpg/250px-Colbert-truthiness.jpg

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

bio for one of the professors of that class:
I was born and raised in Cambridge, MA. I graduated from Cambridge Rindge & Latin high school in 1994. I graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Folklore & Mythology in 1998. Not knowing what to do, I entered Harvard Law School from which I graduated in 2001. While in law school I became interested in computer science as well as the reasons why I had not been interested in computer science in high school and college. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at Harvard.

― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

The sad thing is that Nick is still more articulate than I am.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 23 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

"internet jungle"

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

john s that certainly is a triumph of navel-gazing there

i almost went to rindge! i bet he was in the pilot program instead of fundie

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2006/03/29/mar25_watson_faces_4.jpg
http://www.clintonfranciscans.com/Stop_the_Hate.jpg

― R.O.Q.U.E. (RoqueStrew), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I said "like" or "ummm" with a bright light in my face & staring out at a roomful of people who are staring back at me, I'b be, yeah, rich.

― Eggzakly Huhh? (zachary v.), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

a roomful of people in a classroom, that is. strip club is another story.

― Eggzakly Huhh? (zachary v.), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

A cute story!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

jeezus, do the kids these days really say "like" that much?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/scoob_shag.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

xpost— The old guy in Blade is Kris Kristoferson (though I probably spelled his name wrong).

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

where's our boy now??

― gershy, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

making up the rent

― elan, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

In terms of music writing, Nick is in the Wire a lot these days. He wrote a very nice Epiphanies column a few months back, and does the hip-hop column every two or three months.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid58849.aspx

― beta blog, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

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