January-June, 2007: The Half-Year in Review

1/1 - The Facebook phenomenon continues. Sure, MySpace is where all the corporations go to advertise, but Facebook is far more popular, at least in Wakefield. Why? Maybe it's because you can't see the pictures of you getting drunk with your friends unless you have an account, so your parents will never find out. Not that I've ever taken pictures of myself getting drunk with friends and put them on Facebook.

1/31 - As the Étudiant's own Glen Maganzini said...

"Come on, admit it. Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens are geniuses. First, they set off a bunch of middle finger pointing cartoon figures in Boston and second, they held a press conference that discussed only one, irrelevant subject: hair styles. Okay, maybe the first thing was far less genius than their press conference, but come on these guys are great."

Then again, the first thing shut down the city of Boston, and was the greatest publicity stunt of all time.

2/4 - I don't know about you, but I was totally rooting for da Bears on Super Bowl Sunday. Yes, Peyton Manning deserved it. No, I wasn't mad that the Colts beat the Pats. It's because my mom lived in Chicago for years. Plus, I love those SNL sketches.
2/11 - The Police reunite at the beginning of the Grammys, and I miss it because I'm an idiot. Plus I had homework, I think. Oh well, thank God for YouTube.

3/16 - Apparently, there was a three-way tie on Jeopardy! on this date. This is also the date Ms. Tinker shouted out, "Oh no they di-n't!"

3/17 - The WHS Jazz Ensemble celebrates St. Patty's Day by going to Boston and getting hammered. Unfortunately, our drunkenness hurt our performance at the Berklee Jazz Festival, especially when drummer Brian Hickey passed out right in the middle of his solo, and I threw up all over the piano during mine.
4/12 - On this date, Don Imus lost his job because he said something really, really stupid (see above).

4/16 - What do you call the removal of a student from his poetry class by the professor because of disturbing writing and behavior? How about when someone never speaks, and puts down a question mark as his name? These are called warnings.

5/19 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End comes out, and I still have yet to see it, because, again, I am an idiot.

5/23 - Jordin Sparks wins American Idol. However, since the live finale ran long, anyone who Tivo'd it missed the announcement of her victory. But hey, at least they still got to watch the previous winners (plus Sanjaya!) butcher songs from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

6/14 - Tony Parker leads the Spurs to another championship. Three in four years? For a French guy, he's had a lot of victories. With help from Americans.

6/29 - The iPhone hits stores. The stores should really hit back.