August 2009
In Bed With Billy: My Year of Celibacy Ends
By Broadside Sex Columnist Billy Curtis
You know it’s funny to think that people once laughed at Aristotle when he wrote about the concept of Tabula Rasa. Think about it. The sheer idea of getting a clean slate, a fresh start, sounds nice doesn’t it? Imagine getting that second chance for the one thing you desperately desired but never got to accomplish, that feeling that comes from those magically perfect moments that really make you feel alive. A second chance like that, only a fool would be willing to pass up.
Top NFL Headlines Heading Into the Season
By Broadside Correspondent Chris DeMarco
There have been numerous storylines leading up to the start of this upcoming NFL season, but these are the most intriguing and should be fun to watch throughout the season this year.
5. The TO Experiment, Part III
Major League Baseball: Predictions for Division Winners, Wild Card Teams
By Broadside Correspondent Chris DeMarco
AL East:
After a sluggish start to their season, the New York Yankees seem ready to head back into October following a season in which they missed the playoffs for the first time since the pre-Joe Torre era.
Women's Volleyball Tests New RAC Building for Monday Game
By Broadside Sports Editor Brian Chan
The George Mason University women’s volleyball team will test the waters at the new RAC Building as they take on the University of Minnesota Gophers on Monday at 7 p.m.
Mason also welcomes four freshmen to the 2009 team.
Mason Alumnus Heads to the Big Leagues
By Broadside Sports Editor Brian Chan
Photo by Stephanie Knapp
While the George Mason University baseball team had a record-breaking season last year, Shawn Griffith was the odd man out.
Five of the six Mason players were selected on the second day of the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Griffith, the last one, fell to the 37th round after being chosen on the third day by the Toronto Blue Jays.
Mason Attempts a World Record
By Broadside Editor-in-Chief Emily Sharrer
As part of this week’s Welcome Week festivities, Mason Nation will attempt to land on the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records by playing the longest game of telephone ever on Wednesday from 3 to 9 p.m. in the North Plaza.
The current world record is held by a group of students from Britain who had a total of 1,330 telephone players.
Man Behind the Book: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
By Broadside Correspondent Joshua Hylton
It is a warm spring night. A young man, no more than 30 years old, goes out on the town looking only for a good time. At a local bar, he meets a young woman, a fan of his now infamous website, tuckermax.com.
After many rounds of alcohol, he winds back at her place for a night of sexual debauchery. As his lady friend makes it to the bathroom, the bar events prior do not bode well with his stomach, so he does what any normal person would do.
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Hits Theaters
By Broadside Correspondent Joshua Hylton
Based on the New York Times bestseller, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell revolves around Tucker, played by Matt Czuchry, and his two buddies, Drew, played by Jesse Bradford, and Dan, played by Geoff Stults. Drew has just gotten out of a rough relationship and harbors hostility for every woman he meets because his ex cheated on him, unfairly concluding that she must represent the entire female population. Dan, on the other hand, is only days away from marriage, so Tucker coaxes the two into traveling with him to a strip club for his bachelor party. After arriving, Dan learns that Tucker has alternate reasons for being there, which potentially jeopardizes Dan’s relationship with his soon to be wife.
Woodstock, Northern Virginia Style
By Broadside Correspondent Marian McLaughlin
In early August, concertgoers and bands attended the first Old Bridge Festival, two-day event put together by a group of people from the Northern Virginia area.
The venue itself was a neglected winter farmhouse in Amissville, Virginia. Subjected to vandalism sessions, every window was bashed in and nonsensical graffiti marked every wall.
Campus Starbucks 'Somewhere to be at Night'
By C2M Director of Written Content Kevin Loker
Mason just got a bit more caffeinated.
As of 10 a.m. Sunday, the university’s new on-campus Starbucks will be pulling all-nighters with students, operating on a near 24-hour, 7 days a week schedule.
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