The Key to Any Good Party is the Tunes

How many of you have ever been at a party, having a great time, your favorite song blasting from the speakers, you’re singing at the top of your lungs, and all of a sudden the music stops because the prissy girl who likes herself too much or the beefy jock who’s had a little too much to drink have changed your song to something more their style? Not only does this embarrassingly leave you singing out-of-tune by yourself in the middle of the dance floor, but it’s also rude. Why can’t people just wait an average three minutes and 30 seconds?

Obviously this has happened more than once to the creators of a new site (www.songvote.com) which allows you to survey your friends and future party guests on what jams will be needed at your next shindig.
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Classic, Random Laughter

Three years ago I was stuck in a graduate school newsroom with some of the craziest people I have ever met in my entire life. And if they’re reading this right now, they know I mean that as a compliment. Our days were spent either furiously writing in order to make deadline, or furiously searching Google and YouTube for the most awesome things ever. Rap lyrics represented in statistical charts and graphs is one of them (thank you Audrey for the blast from the past).

If I haven’t said it enough to you former BUDC-ers, I love you like a fat kid loves cake. Real talk, and there’s a bar graph to prove it.

I hear Zoo Bar is awaiting our glorious return.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Photo courtesy of yumsugar.

Ok, this is one of my favorite holidays, mostly because my two favorite things in the world are margaritas and chips. But I did a little research this morning, and as it turns out, the origins of Cinco de Mayo as a holiday are not just an excuse to drink and have fun (like they are for the 4th of July and Christmas).

According to Wikipedia, “Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a voluntarily observed holiday that commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.” Interesting. What’s even more interesting? Cinco de Mayo is only really celebrated in the Mexican state of Puebla and the United States. WTF? Either we Americans really hate the French, or we’ll really use any excuse to drink and eat chips (seriously, two of my favorite things.)
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