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After a Winter Break-long hiatus, BlogDailyHerald is back to serve all of your procrastination needs. We’re decked out in post-holiday swag, muffs and Bean boots, sporting a surprising thirst for knowledge and new classes. Our cheeks have finally recovered from grandmother pinches and lipstick stains, and our return to Providence has wiped away the January boredom.  Snowmageddon seems to be a relic of yesteryear. Stay tuned for shopping period disasters, oversized snowmen, and assorted people doing cool things. Our excitement is just bubbling over. Yipee!

As you may or may not know, the print edition of BlogDailyHerald has a shiny new edit board who aren’t wasting any time recruiting new talent for the paper.  In the past few weeks, three different sections of the paper have advertised in Morning Mail and asked some interesting questions.  So again we ask you:

“Feeling opinionated?”
“Enjoy going to Brown sporting events?”
“Looking to gain real-world business experience at Brown?”

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” let them know!  For more information on opinions or sports writing, you can email opinions(at)browndailyherald.com or sports(at)browndailyherald.com, respectively. If you would like to apply to the Brown Daily Herald, Inc.’s sales staff, you can find the application (due January 15th) here.

Interested in anything else Herald related?  Look out for announcements about BDH (and BlogDH) info sessions in the near future.

Disclaimer: Almost none of the links in this post are safe for work studying in the FriSC. Click through at your own discretion.

If you, like us, have been wasting time perusing Spotted at Brown during the last few days, you might be aware of a new subreddit heating up the Brown cyberscene. The site, punnily titled BrownBares, serves as a space for Brown students to post revealing or nude photos of themselves. As of yesterday, the URL www.brownbares.com redirects to the site.

To date, 27 posts have gone up on the subreddit, the vast majority of which feature nude or semi-nude photos of students. While most of the photos seem to have been taken in dorm rooms or bathrooms, one brave poster (deemed “Salomon” by his Spotted at Brown following) fully embraced the spirit of the subreddit and took to the 500-seat Salomon DeCiccio Auditorium to take naked pictures. Another female poster hints at having taken pictures of herself in a library bathroom. (Though no photos have featured donuts yet…)

Brunonians aren’t the only college students who like being nekkid on the Internet. Boobs@Bard, for example, is a tumblr that showcases topless photos of the women of Bard College, while its counterpart, Bard Cocks on Campus, features bottomless photos of men. Once those two sites gained traction, copycats quickly arose in WesBreasts/Westacles at Wesleyan, Titties at Tulane/Cocks on Campus at Tulane and Vag@Vassar — the men at Vassar apparently haven’t risen to the challenge.

BlogDailyHerald recently caught up with the moderator and founder of BrownBares and direct messaged him (yup, he’s male, we asked) a few of the questions we’ve all been wondering:

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At 5 P.M. today, decisions for the ~2,765 early applicants to Brown became available on the Brown website. Commence the stalking of current high school seniors’ Facebooks!

Warning:  Do not watch the above video if you can’t handle overwhelming cuteness or explosive happiness.

Friday night, a crowd of adoring fans got to witness a special moment as soloist Chris Unseth ’11.5 pulled his girlfriend Sarah Gassel ’11.5 from the crowd and sang to her, then knelt and asked her to marry him. The crowd roared as she accepted, flowers came out of nowhere and the two embraced. Andrew Kim ’13 captured it all on camera, so now students who weren’t there (or couldn’t see past the huge crowd) can experience the moment, too.

Friends of Chris and Sarah, who know the couple as “beautiful people inside and out,” look forward to watching their life together unfold. We at BlogDH wish them endless happiness in their post-Brown and married life!

It’s that time of the year again — when the vast differences between the Flex 460 and 330 finally reveal themselves, and meal credit inequality seems almost as dire as income inequality. In past years, various students have attempted to create far-reaching end-of-semester meal credit co-ops, and we at BlogDH have decided that it’s our time to take up the gauntlet.

Check out the Facebook event to connect with other students looking to share a meal or score one. Post on the event’s wall with relevant details like where you live, which dining halls are your favorites and whether you prefer blondes or brunettes. JK, this isn’t a dating site (#butisit?).

Meet up with friends and strangers alike over a Spicy With (or an Ivy Room falafel, if you’re into yellow mush masquerading as a Middle Eastern staple…). Share the wealth — for during finals period, why not be socialists? (A’s for all!)

by Cayman Robson

Occasionally, BlogDH will reach out to other Brown publications and ask them to publish a short preview of their upcoming issues as a means of showcasing their awesomeness.  Here we have a sampling from this semester’s issue of Clerestory Journal of the Arts.  The journal is having a release party tonight from 8-10pm in Machado Lounge (87 Prospect), so head over to grab a journal, listen to some music, watch some videos and hang out with some of the featured artists.

Like the rest of this campus, we have to peace out for a few days to enjoy t(of)urkey, cranberry sauce and a shit ton of awkward family conversations. If you start feeling symptoms of BlogDailyWithdrawal (a rash in the shape of an angry bear head, hashtagged speech and an overly inflated sense of self worth are all sure signs), please contact your physician. On the upside, we won’t be gone long: we’ll be back, posting regularly, on Sunday. In the meantime, be sure to keep track of your crazy Thanksgiving adventures, and send them in as stories for our Bru Life story contest.

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Thanksgiving dinners involve extended family, alcohol and turkey basters — naturally, they’re often be disastrous. Which is exactly why we’re launching our first ever BlogDH anonymous story contest!

Tell us your most embarrassing / hilarious Thanksgiving-related tales (we’ll even accept stories of Black Friday trauma) in 250 words or less, and your story could be featured right here on BlogDH as our contest winner! Stories will be judged on hilarity, impropriety and doh! factor. Submit your stories as a “tip” right here to ensure full anonymity — we re hoping for stories just as juicy as that 24-pound turkey in the oven…

We’ll be accepting your stories until 5 pm on Sunday, November 27, and we’ll post the winner, along with a few of our favorite runners-up, on Monday morning. Entertain us, Brunonia!