We’re gonna be honest with y’all: this week’s episode of Girls was a little strange.  Besides the always-awesome one-liners from our girl Shosh, this episode (aptly named “Boys”) aired on the side of serious, focusing primarily on Ray’s life crisis and Adam’s breakup recovery. We struggled to find one particular idea/word to write about this week, so here are some brief thoughts on three subjects covered in last Sunday’s episode:

Brands of difficult (n.)
How it’s used in the show: Adam: “I’m a difficult person, everyone’s a difficult person.  [Hannah] was accepting of my brand of difficult, she was okay with it.”

Let’s briefly address a thought that Adam (of all people, right?) proposed: the idea that we all have our own “brands of difficult.”  Maybe our goal in life shouldn’t be to find the least difficult people to surround ourselves with, but to find those who accept our personal brand of difficult, and whose brand of difficult we can also handle.  We all have our flaws—Tyra Banks would tell us these make us “flawesome” but, like, there’s nothing flawesome about the fact that we constantly leave our shoes directly in your walking path / leave dirty dishes in the sink / obsess over The Wire. The friends you make and keep are going to be the ones who will celebrate you at your best and stand by you at your worst. [Read more →]

Judging from the veritable army of snowmen outside, snow-engineering is the school’s biggest new independent concentration. But because we love facilities for saving the world and keeping the end of days from happening, here’s a handy approval matrix between snow-bound shenanigans and accidentally causing a five-car pileup from a stray snowball.

Now that Spring Break is unfortunately in the past,  we here at BlogDailyHerald are setting our sights straight on SPRING WEEKEND 2011!!!!.  While we haven’t hit our 12 Days of Spring Weekend coverage quite yet, we figured we’d show you guys what some other schools are doing for their spring concerts in the form of a New York Magazine Approval Matrix.  After extensive analysis of data, we can definitely say that Brown is looking pretty damn awesome.  Thanks to Wesleyan’s Blog Daily Cardinal for the research help.  Full list of line-ups after the jump.   [Read more →]

As Spring Weekend launches itself upon us, BlogDailyHerald took the time to examine the musical happenings at everyone else’s festivals, inflict our oh-so-unbiased judgment and in the stylings of New York Magazine’s approval matrix, make sure you know exactly how we feel.

And for the record, our Spring Weekend ranks at straight-up awesome. The hipster v mainstream option is still up for grabs though.

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