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Ryan Gosling may not be Sexiest Man Alive, but he certainly is Sexiest Meme Alive. Spin-offs of the original Hey Girl Tumblr, which pairs adorable pictures of R-Gos with equally adorable captions, are everywhere. And some of them are pretty great.

We first fell in love (in an empowered, 21st century kind of way) with Feminist Ryan Gosling, but these days there are so many we don’t even know who to choose. Public Historian R-Gos? Librarian Gosling, Thesis Gosling and Biostatistics Gosling feel particularly relevant at this point in the semester. There’s even Gosblr, a Tumblr devoted to Ryan Gosling Tumblrs, the existence of which makes me kind of worry that we’re all on the brink of implosion.

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Don’t be fooled by his newsboy hat and lace-up thermal shirt — things really get going around 0:36.

At BlogDailyHerald, we have an inexplicable fascination with haikus. We use them for announcing masturbators, remembering debaucherous nights down by the river and delivering the news. Herald publication has been interrupted for finals (don’t you just hate when school gets in the way of your learning?), but we bloggers haven’t yet thrown in the towel. BlogDH can’t go a day without posting a haiku on the site, so we’ve decided to introduce a new breed of poem: the Year in Reviewku. For each and every day of finals period, make room for 17 culturally aware syllables to remind you of every (Brunonian) thing you forgot mattered in 2011. 

“O Superma-an”
Coachella killed Spring Weekend
Fall Concert, no fans.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Queer Community Forum: Under the Pan-Queer Umbrella
5 pm – Arnold Lounge

Discussion forum on improving the queer community at Brown – promises free pizza and ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.

Entrepreneurship in Social Media
7 pm – Wilson 304

Vince Broady ’90 shares lessons as an entrepreneur in digital media. Brown seems to like entrepreneurship, so this will be relatively fun. If you don’t care for enterprise, but love free pizza, this will be a pleasant experience, too!

John Nicholas Brown Center: Opening Night! Place, Memory, Experience…
5:30-7:30 pm – Carriage Galleries (357 Benefit)

A collaborative exhibition at the John Nicholas Brown Center, promises three interesting art exhibits and free snacks. If you enjoy art with your free food, this might be ‘the move.’

Picture from Initial Attempts at BlogDH Post

Monday afternoon, BlogDailyHerald had plans to put up a post about Brian Moynihan ’81′s, CEO of Bank of America, coming to speak at Brown.  Just before we published the post, a variety of writers received an influx of emails from various TA’s, friends, and strangers on the street that the speech, which had been publicized by flyers around the campus, was in fact a hoax.

While this may seem slightly alarming, there is a precedent for this kind of widespread duping of Brown University by Brown University.  In October 2010, a letter was posted in Keeney announcing the impending installation of surveillance cameras throughout the quad. Also a hoax, this experiment had been part of an MCM class, MCM1700: “Techniques of Surveillance“ (taught by Mark Tribe), in order to see how people reacted to knowing they were being watched.

This semester, Tribe is teaching MCM1700P: “Radical Media.” The course investigates the way in which media can facilitate social action and become part of political discourse (lolz, MCM). One of the projects for the class is described on the course wiki page as requiring students take on a “socially engaged project,” record its results on video and post it online. Is anyone else getting déjà vu?

Need an incentive to keep writing your paper? What if you were to automatically build study breaks into your productive streaks? Under writtenkitten.net, for every _(you set the number: 100/200/500/1,000)_ words you write, you will be rewarded: ALL CATS NO ALLERGIES! A built-in word count on the site keeps track of your progress and then, voila! Cat.

If you need further reward for your labors, here’s another catalyst to light a fire under your ass.

Heard of The RIB? If you haven’t heard of it before, you have now — and you’ll no doubt hear more about these girls in the future as they make waves in the world of comedy. Started earlier this year, The RIB was created by a handful of girls who decided one spring morning that Brown needed a female comedy group. Their blog, which launched this summer “after the girls had synchronized all of their cycles and participated in exactly 17 semi-nude pillow fights,” is regularly updated with diverse content ranging from humorous musings on men and periods to anguished pleas for men to “nut up” and talk to their crushes. You don’t have to be a GNSS concentrator or an avid Sexction reader to get lost in this wondrous world of female comedy (perfect study break for finals?).

BlogDailyHerald tracked down three writers for The RIB, Samantha Williams ’12, Emily Spinner ’14 and Maria Luisa Acabado ’13, in order to learn more about the pub and the women behind it. [Read more →]

Governor Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 lit the state’s holiday tree in a ceremony last night, with hundreds of protesters in the audience condemning Chafee for refusing to refer to the evergreen as a Christmas tree. Bishop Thomas Tobin, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, hosted an alternative, pointedly religious tree-lighting ceremony just blocks away at St. Francis Parish.

The Narragansett City Council passed an ordinance last night to address increasing complaints of rowdy University of Rhode Island students. If the city responds to complaints about a party multiple times, it can begin to collect fees to cover the costs of law enforcement and emergency response. Proponents of the measure argued that it is not a “double tax,” but instead a way of more equitably distributing city costs.

Westerly Hospital, a small hospital located in Westerly, has filed for state receivership, a process that would allow the institution to continue to function as it resolves its financial troubles. The struggles of the hospital — which is the second to file for state receivership in the past 4 years — highlights the myriad of economic challenges facing hospitals in the state.

‘Tis the season! Even if you’ve been swept up by the Finals Countdown and have been in a perpetual SciLi state of mind, you can’t ignore the holiday cheer that has swept over Providence. The question is: have you been celebrating the most wonderful time of year? Let’s be real: prep for finals period means your dorm room is neglected, your bed remains unmade and you haven’t seen the top of your desk since midterms. But it’s the holidays, yo! Give your dorm room some Holiday TLC. BlogDailyHerald is here to make sure your room is filled with holiday cheer.

Get crafty

• Paper snowflakes: Remember that POLS paper you swore you’d never look at again? Now’s your chance to recycle it to a more jolly life. Follow online tutorials like this one (you can skip ahead to 0:45), and turn your realist argument into sweet wall decorations!
• Coffee and tea wreaths: We know your coffee and tea consumption have gone up exponentially in the past week. So take your vice and turn it into a festive wreath! Whether it’s your collection of Starbucks sleeves or the Tazo bags you’ve been stocking up on, you can turn your caffeinated drink of choice into a crafty door dec.
• Jingle bells: Do you fucking love the holidays? Do you hate your roommate? If you answered either of these questions with an enthusiastic “Yes!”, you might want to vent your emotions by purchasing vast quantities of sleigh bells. Hang them on your door handle, sow them onto your pillows, make yourself a bracelet… Be aggressively merry. But while these are the epitome of Christmas cheer, they get very annoying very fast. However, they send a very clear message: I fucking love Christmas and I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT. [Read more →]

Kazoo + Ukulele = Kazookeylele