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11/20/24
Overheard@Brown
“How do you look hot as Mario, WTF?”
“I woke up and found a zest for life.”
Hot post- time machine
“Declare your care for others, in all its forms—scream it so loudly from the top of College Hill that the ducks by the Pedestrian Bridge feel the water ripple beneath their feathers. Tell people you cherish them until your vocal chords get sore and your lips begin to ache from words of love.”
—Indigo Mudbhary, “On Being Cringe” 12.07.23
“In a world where practically everything is dictated by logic, I view superstitions as a way to keep the magic in our everyday lives.”
—Samira Lakhiani, “Knock on Wood” 12.02.22
Top 10 Things to Give
- Thanks
- Face
- A big wet juicy smooch
- Me a break
- Tree
- Coal
- Up
- A mouse a cookie
- Liberty or death
- Hawk Tuah
11/15/24
Overheard@Brown
“Do you think Big Abortion is making placebos?”
“I honestly think that doing psychedelic drugs is the reason I came to Brown.”
Hot post- time machine
“I can be a wanderer, but also find and make myself at home anywhere I go. Thanks to my finger friends, my pockets and my heart are now a whole lot fuller.”
—Ellie Jurmann, “Friends in High-five Places” 11.30.23
“Ghosts are the best fuel for my daydreams. The specters wander in and out of my half memory as I weave threads of fiction and real life together, until I can imagine a whole person who might have lived just so.”
—Mack Ford, “The Ghosts I Call Darling” 11.18.23
Top 10 People to Have on Your Podcast
- Hawk Tuah
- Serial DMer from Sidechat
- One of my exes
- Olivia Rodrigo, so you could sing Traitor together
- King George III, the Mad King
- Maximillian Robespierre
- My AP English Literature teacher from high school
- President William Howard Taft, who got stuck in a bathtub
- Myself from the alternate universe in which the core trauma of my childhood never occurred
- JoJo Siwa
11/08/24
Overheard@Brown
“It’s good to meet a writer with an actual job.”
“Your hole is so clean.”
Hot post- time machine
“The smell of rain on the sidewalk. The way flakes of white fall from the sky and leave drops behind on my cheeks instead of staining my lungs gray. The way, each time I step outside, the first thing I notice is nature running circles around me, making itself known.”
—Liza Kolbasov, “As the Leaves Do” 11.11.22
“When disclosure of the self exists within a superficial sphere of dressing in a way that’s true to yourself or being proud of the music you listen to regardless of what others think, how can we turn the focus of expression to personhood?”
—Eleanor Dushin, “Am I Still Your Type?” 11.16.23
Top 10 Trader Joe’s Snacks
- The guy at cash register #8
- Lemon
- Tea Tree Tingle Body Wash
- Stewy brothy creamy spicy beans
- Joe-Joe’s
- Pumpkin butter
- Trader Ming
- Scandinavian Swimmers
- Spicy with
- Trader Joe’s Chocolatey Coated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dunkers
11/01/24
Overheard@Brown
“Dude, do you like socks?”
“She’s really into textures.”
Hot post- time machine
“In my short time here, I know that every one of my delusions, desires, and dreams in every world, universe, and multiverse all connect to create the truest version of myself.”
— Gabi Yuan, “Reinventing” 11.09.23
“I will always welcome a story about my past. And for my first tale, I have a souvenir that retells it to me every day.”
— Marin Warshay, “Woven into the Seams” 11.04.22
Top 10 Write-Ins
- Joe Biden
- Joe Mama
- Joe Maffa
- Hawk Tuah girl
- The little one from Boygenius
- Neil Mehta
- The Beatles
- Rashid Zia
- The Rizzler
- Onika Burger
10/25/24
Overheard@Brown
“Talk amongst yourself while I tackle and brutalize the technology.”
“It’s like I’m the benchwarmer for the polycule”
Hot post- time machine
“A tale in fragments can endure eons; I am a scattered clay piece of an ancient epoch. My ancestors are spread elsewhere, but I know the story of my mother, my brother, and especially me—even in its broken pieces.”
— Leanna Bai, “On Fragmentation And My Disappearance” 10.28.22
“In the midst of this season of self-discovery, love arrived, quietly, letting itself in through the back door. I currently cherish someone very deeply and am cherished by them in my entirety. Just when I was least expecting it, love snuck up on me, like a tiger in the night, terrifying but beautiful. As the leaves fall, so do I.”
— Indigo Mudbhary, “It’s Okay to Love Multiple People” 11.2.23
Top 10 Family Members
- Your mom
- Stacy’s mom
- Grandfather clock
- Cousin Greg
- 737a Hope St., Providence, RI
- Brother eughhh
- Unc
- My brother in Christ
- Mister Sister
- Father, Son, Holy Ghost
10/18/24
Overheard@Brown
“Every group has a Beyoncé and every group has a Lea Michele.”
“I’m in an American studies seminar and everyone wears docs and has septum piercings.”
Hot post- time machine
“After all, how do you let yourself grow roots, become entangled, when your time in a place has an end date? When you’re certain to have to leave, and don’t know where you’ll be going next, or how long you’ll stay there? It feels safer to appear and disappear unnoticed.”
— Liza Kolbasov, “Haunted Grounds” 10.26.23
“So maybe magic is not reserved exclusively for the naive minds of kindergarteners. Maybe it rests most abundantly in the things unassuming and reckless and unspoken, and it is just up to us to find it.”
— Sarah Kim, “Meadowmount, Music, and Magic” 10.21.22
Top 10 Eds
- Copy-eds
- -Stem
- Hardy
- Early decision
- Erectile dysfunction
- Extraterrestrial if you don’t know how to spell
- My great grandpa
- The one who is friends with Edd n Eddy
- Page Board
- -ward Cullen
10/11/24
Overheard@Brown
“If it quacks like a girl car and it waddles like a girl car then it’s a girl car.”
“What’re your top Ed’s? Mine are Ed Sheeran then Ed Discussion.”
Hot post- time machine
“And when the dance is learned, when it is ingrained in the very fibers of her muscles, she becomes larger than herself—a surprise to us and even to herself. She becomes something beyond.”
— Mack Ford, “A Tangle of Movement” 10.19.23
“As I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like ‘you are here you are here you are here.’ I am here, gladly.”
— Joyce Gao, “Detaching from Detachment” 10.14.22
Top 10 Hard Launch Captions
- Virginia is for lovers
- It’s been you all along
- This and some premarital
- Siblings or dating
- First date kinda nervous
- Thing 1 and Thing 2
- Long-distance, low-commitment, casual girlfriend
- Made it out of the situationship
- Hard launch
- I’m with stupid ⇒
10/04/24
Overheard@Brown
“I want my abortion done by a nun.”
“My canvas post really pushes the boundaries of coherence.”
Hot post- time machine
“Because language is the only thing that has never felt like a waste of time. So you will leap into the ocean—or you will let yourself fall—over and over again, and in the end you will write about it all. You will warp your words, like Pygmalion does his clay, until you convince yourself that your creation is as good as the real thing.”
— Emily Tom, “From Here, You Can See Everything” 10.7.22
“I know the future holds many more new exit numbers for me. Everywhere I’ve ever called home will stay tucked away, but just within memory’s reach when I need to feel the comfort of belonging.”
— Samiha Kazi, “The Road Back Home” 10.5.23
Top 10 Reasons you left Harvard v. Brown early
- Laundry timer went off
- Bored.
- To read post-
- No hope
- Conscientious objecting
- Got scared
- Fell in a hole covered with leaves
- Sneaky link
- Dog ate my homework
- Drank too much!
9/25/24
Overheard@Brown
“Using etc. is a shitty little move.”
“No one can make me dance like a jester.”
Hot post- time machine
“It’s a hazy, remote memory in my mind, but it’s there. The lingering song of a raunchy salsa band wafting through the streets. The wandering stray dogs with matted fur. The white cross of the stone cathedral. Each direction births a new recollection, unwieldy and uncertain, yet unmistakably there.”
— Laura Tamayo, “Exile” 09.30.2022
“But home isn’t a place you find, is it? It’s a place you build. On this strange and beautiful campus, I still feel fragile and leaky. I cry so often. But I feel it sometimes, eating with somebody outside on a sunny day, learning to dance in Sayles, going on walks by the river— little glimmers of hope.”
— Anonymous, “First Year Blues” 09.28.2023
Top 10 Pops
- Privately owned public spaces
- Corn
- Socket
- My dad
- Soda (in the Midwest)
- -pers
- Snap, Crackle
- Joints
- -tarts
- Smoke (RIP)
9/18/24
Overheard@Brown
“Do you think it’s rude to bring a bookbag to a darty?”
“I have never seen such a well- crafted group of annoying people.”
Hot post- time machine
“The crowd mentality, the one affecting the coat population on campus today, needs to be one of inclusivity and support, under whatever circumstances or for whatever reason.”
— Sean Toomey, “The Tan in Man” 09.23.2022
“The water awoke myself to my body, a thing so funnily forgotten. The coldness pressed against my limbs so that I could feel every hair I’d always pondered shaving off, and in the full of my throat a fresh thud of heartbeats gathered.”
— Elena Jiang, “On Coastlines and Other Beginnings” 09.21.2023
Top 10 brats
- Charli xcx
- Bratwurst
- Bratz dolls
- The B(ratty)
- Veruca Salt
- Bratislava
- Brat Pack
- Queen Elizabrat
- My ungrateful shit-eating sister
- Bratatouille
