Remember Cheryl Frasier, that ditzy contestant in the Miss United States Pageant in Miss Congeniality? When asked to describe her perfect date, Frasier doesn’t respond with something trite like “I enjoy long walks on the beach.” Instead, she interprets the question differently and answers that the perfect calendar date is April 25th, “because it’s not too hot, and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket!” Thinking outside the box? She’s so Brown.

Of course, this answer makes perfect sense: Cheryl Frasier is Miss Rhode Island, so she’d know exactly how to dress for a New England spring day. Well, guess what? Today is April 25th and the high is conveniently 62 degrees — it’s not too hot, it’s not too cold, and all you need is a light jacket. She’s so Raven. Things just got real meta.

During last week’s Oscars broadcast, it was hard not to miss the previews for a certain ABC show premiering tonight at 10 pm. Here’s a hint:  three very familiar letters…

In this case, “GCB” stands for “Good Christian Bitches,” as opposed to the all-too familiar “Graduate Center Bar.” The show, based on a book of the same name, features Kristin Chenoweth as a former nerd who now heads the “Good Christian Bitches” of Plano, Texas.

According to a GCB chalkboard (and surprising no one, given Brown students’ love of all things meta), the bar will be showing the “GCB” season premiere tonight.  If you a) are under 21 or  b) aren’t sure you want to devote an hour of precious Sunday library time to an ABC midseason replacement show titled “Good Christian Bitches,” never fear — BlogDH will be meticulously analyzing the show for all similarities to our favorite drinking establishment. Stay tuned.

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Do you have a heightened sense of Brunonian absurdity? Do weird events and sightings seem to come flocking to your feet? Do you speak in one-item lists or consider frivolous websites to stand as evidence for hard-hitting journalism? Do you enjoy doing things daily or wasting time? If you said yes to any of these questions, you may want to be a blogger! BlogDailyHerald is looking for ambitious writers and connoisseurs of miscellany to join our team.

We are holding two info sessions, 8PM and 9PM TODAY, Tuesday, February 7, in the upstairs space of the Herald Office (195 Angell).

If you can’t make either of these times, there are more options:

• You can come to a Herald info session next week
• Find us at the activities fair in Leung Gallery on February 9
• Email us at blog@browndailyherald.com to get more information.

Is your healthy dose of snark pushing away your friends? Do you cross through words for style or put hyperlinks in emails? Do you enjoy doing things daily or eating? If so, you may want to be a blogger! BlogDailyHerald is looking for ambitious writers and connoisseurs of random-ass-shit to join our team.

We are holding 2 info sessions, 8PM and 9PM, Tuesday, February 7 in the upstairs space of the Herald Office (195 Angell).

If you can’t make either of these times, there are more options:

• You can come to a Herald info session next week
• Find us at the activities fair in Leung Gallery on February 9
• Email us at blog@browndailyherald.com to get more information.

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.

Happy New Year!  To bid adieu to the year that was, we are recapping the most read BlogDailyHerald articles of 2011:

10: Students who do cool things: The igloo on the Main Green

Remember Snowpocalypse 2011?  This crew of (then) Sophomores responded to the silly amount of snow by constructing and sleeping in an igloo on the Main Green.

9: Carrie Bradshaw, Brown’s latest fictional alum

Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, released Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel as part of her young adult series. In the book, which follows the Sex and the City characters as teenagers, Bushnell revealed that the series’ lead mare character spent her college years at Brown!

8: BREAKING: Rest of the Spring Weekend Line-up Announced

After BlogDH broke the news that Diddy and TV on the Radio would be the two headlining acts for Spring Weekend ’11, we came back a week later with the rest of the line-up.  For those of you who were either not here (froshies) or casually too drunk to actually remember any of the concerts, here’s a brief rundown of the supporting acts: Das Racist was Das Wasted, Lee Fields wore a fantastic green suit, Rebirth got the ice rink dancing, Lissy Trullie didn’t even show up, and Nico Jaar ’12 was great for the 17 people who actually got there early enough.  [Read more →]

Photo by Emily Gilbert / Herald

As you may have noticed, our beloved parent organization, The Brown Daily Herald, stopped production about a week ago, and yet we are still chugging away, doing our level best to bring you all the news that’s fit to blog. But, with the finals countdown reaching its bitter end, we must at last buckle down and do our schoolwork. We’ll still be here throughout finals period with breaking news and study breaks, but our regular posting will slow down.

Remember to keep sending news, tips and suggestions to blog@browndailyherald.com. Also, shoot us an email if you want to write for us in the spring. ‘Cuz we want you.  [Read more →]

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!)

We love to tweet. There’s nothing more exhilarating than the challenge of expressing your thoughts in 140 characters or less while preserving your wit and, in BlogDailyHerald’s case, being #meta… Okay, maybe there is, but you get the point. Twitter can help you in school, let you keep in touch with high school friends and even aid you in selecting a career path.  Bottom line: tweeting’s damn cool and pretty relevant to #Brunonia. We’ve compiled a list of Brown-related Twitter accounts that will make your life infinitely easier, or at least keep you from dozing off in lecture. #Czechitout.

Brunonia 

• Brown University:  While they are definitely not the best tweeters at Brown, they’re definitely worth a follow as an expression of your Bruno pride.
• The Brown Daily Herald:  In our world, the Herald is the parent who stays up until we (BlogDH) stumble in drunk from our “friend’s house” at 3 am. To go along with their role as our fairly uncool parent, they happen to be less than great at social media, but they are still the best, and, for what it’s worth, the most traditional source of everything Brunonia.
• Brown Alumni Magazine: Yes, it is random. But Brown Alumni Magazine tweets often and tweets well. Did you know two Brown alumni were listed among Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women“? Did you know College Hill was voted “one of the top 10 great American neighborhoods“? Did you know Julie Bowen, of Modern Family fame, is a Brown alum? Well, you would if you followed the Alum Mag! Irrelevant Brown trivia ftw. (The Brown Alumni Association is also a solid account, but they have nothing on the mag).
• Brown CareerLAB:  If your parents visited for Parents Weekend, you’re probably still getting calls asking what you’re thinking of doing with your yet-to-be-defined independent concentration. Now you can give your parents some peace of mind by saying you’ll go to info sessions you found out about on Twitter! That might not be what they want to hear verbatim, but it’s good enough.
• Brown Athletics/BDH Sports: Brown is still a D-1 school even if more than half the campus has no idea what that means… [Read more →]