The song Afternoon Delight is about, among other things, an appetizer from Clyde’s of Georgetown. This and other fun facts in Jeff Reger’s cover featuring Georgetown professors Bill Danoff (the writer of Afternoon Delight) and Walter Egan, who had a hit himself with Magnet and Steel.
Tim Fernholz is in the market for some Catholic justice, the upshot being, he says, Iraq war architect and Georgetown professor Douglas Feith has got to go.
Mask & Bauble gets inside G.W. Bush’s head in the winner of their one act play contest and, Ryan May Handy says, it’s both witty and brief. (You can buy tickets here.)
The Editorial Board tells the National Park Service to clean up its act (and the National Mall).
I’m off to watch the second half of the Pitt-Louisville game. It’s 31-33 right now with Pitt behind, but I smell an upset.
Jeff Reger takes us back a few decades this week in his cover story on musicians/songwriters/Georgetown professors Walter Egan and Bill Danoff. In case you haven’t read the cover and are wondering who Egan and Danoff are, no worries: just let YouTube fill you in (and then go read the cover).
Egan’s hit 1978 single “Magnet and Steel” was produced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac and went on to sell over a million copies. In the video, Egan is rolling six deep and sporting an outfit that could only be described as transplendent (or something).
This next song, written by Danoff, thanks largely to Will Farrell and Mitchell Hurtwitz, needs little introduction. Danoff is the lead singer in the video, wearing a black tux and a pretty boss ‘do.
I feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t post either an Arrested Development or Anchorman video along with this. (Unfortunately, videos of Michael and Maeby’s tender duet are in short supply on the interweb.) Video after the jump.
The Big East tournament is one of the finest displays of basketball anywhere in the world, and the Voice’s Anthony Francavilla will be there all weekend to keep you updated on the Hoyas’ progress. Georgetown got it started right, and got it started quickly, with an 82-63 smackdown of the Villanova Wildcats. With no controversial last-second foul calls to hide behind this time, all ‘Nova fans can do now is shake their heads and think about the tournament record-tying 17 threes the Hoyas dropped to offset a nightmare afternoon for senior center Roy Hibbert (0 points, fouled out) and pull away in the second half. The loss could spell tournament trouble for the Wildcats, who were already treading precariously on the NCAA bubble.
Also from our Great News department, freshman guard Chris Wright was back in action for the Hoyas after missing the entire conference schedule with an ankle injury. He scored 6 points and notched 4 assists in 15 minutes of action, and proved his value as a speedy press-breaker that Georgetown has desperately lacked this season.
Up next for JTIII and his boys are the West Virginia Mountaineers, who took down the 15th-ranked UConn Huskies in the second afternoon game, 78-72. WVU has its own beef with Georgetown, as the Mountaineers lost the teams’ only regular-season meeting in Morgantown thanks to an acrobatic last-second block by Patrick Ewing Jr. that many felt should have been called goaltending. It was, at any rate, about as close a call as you could ever see. The world will find out tomorrow night at 7 if the Mountaineers are better at exacting revenge than the Wildcats.
A year after GUSA Prez Ben Shaw and Veep Matt Appenfeller pledged to get free newspapers on campus and a month after the planned date for their Georgetown debut, the papers have finally arrived on campus. Sleek tan distribution boxes are now set up in Alumni Square and Red Square (and, supposedly outside Leo’s and in Leavey, though I haven’t seen these ones yet). Just slide in your GoCard, pull down the door and help yourself to as many New York Times, Washington Posts and USA Todays as your little heart desires.
The papers have come in the nick of time for Shaw, who told the Voice in January, “If the newspapers aren’t here by the third week of February, anyone who wants a Washington Post can come find me and I will buy it for them.” Nevertheless, props are in order for GUSA for finally accomplishing something substantive (and the Corp and, lest we forget, InterHall feat. Caitin Chen). I’ve got to say though, having free papers on campus isn’t as great as I thought it would be. I’ve become so accustomed to getting my news online that when I snagged a NY Times on Monday, it felt unweildly and a little bulky (and, unlike the constantly updated Times website, was missing any mention of prostitutes, New York governors or potentially unsafe sexual acts).
Though the program is run by USA Today, it seems like that’s the last paper people want to grab (see photo). (Maybe Obama was just trying to be nice when he called USA Todaya “respectable paper”?) Judging from what I’ve seen, people also seem to prefer the Times above the Post.
The million dollar question, though, is whether or not the deal includes the Sunday Times. I’m guessing it doesn’t—this would be too good (and expensive) to be true—but until Sunday rolls around, I’m going to keep my fingers crossed anyway.
Look, I love Freaks and Geeks. Love it really hard. And I liked a lot of the early Judd Apatow movies (Ron Burgundy!), and I’m in the facebook group avowing that “The Closest Anyone’s Been to Seeing God is Watching Superbad.” So I believe in Apatow. But…Walk Hard was no good, and, alas, the trailers for the four (four!) movies he’s producing in 2008 look, well…underwhelming. When the best thing in all of them is the song choice (which, in fairness, are excellent), we have some problems.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Here are some things I know I like—Jason Segel, of both Freaks and Geeks and How I Met Your Mother (which is really funny and I don’t know why you don’t watch it), and Kristen Bell, of Veronica Mars. But this movie, which stars both of them, looks really, well, typical, more than anything else. I did laugh out loud at the “Kind of, now…” line, and the crab-like Aldous Snow looks pretty funny, but…there’s like four pratfalls in just a 3 minute trailer, Jonah Hill I am waaay over, and even Paul Rudd isn’t funny. Jason Segel’s can still be pretty great—see, the “what, me?” grin in the last shot—but the snarky, supertalented Kristen Bell gets relegated to playing another boring, shrieky Apatow woman, and there’s something even nudity can’t fix.
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