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-13 posts tagged "satire"
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 1, 2019
I’ve thought about writing this letter for a long time. I waited, hoping that fashions would change and such a letter would be unnecessary — but that doesn’t seem to be happening. I’m not trying to insult anyone or infringe upon anyone’s rights. I’m just a Notre Dame student with a problem that only my
Observer Editorial Board | Friday, February 1, 2019
A chill descended upon the tri-campus community Tuesday. With the incoming polar vortex providing a perfect excuse to cease activity of any kind, Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross shut down until Thursday at 1 p.m., offering students, faculty and staff alike a brief respite to brace for the real storm ahead: student government
Andrew Rebholz | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I’ll never forget walking in on my roommate freshman year. For some reason, he’d plugged his computer into the TV and was watching it on the big screen, hungry eyes glued to the flashing pictures in front of him, so that I had a full view of the video as I walked into the space.
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, October 11, 2018
Notre Dame football games are one of the most amazing experiences of being a student here. But I think we can all agree that the student section can be improved. After thorough investigation, several focus studies, some intrusive thoughts and a CIF, I’ve compiled the top five ways to improve the student section by putting
Nicholas Ottone | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
As a Marxist philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, Theodor Adorno was understandably a rather dour guy. He declared films as “neither guides for a blissful life, nor a new art of moral responsibility, but rather exhortations to toe the line, behind which stand the most powerful interests,” and he reserved specific disregard for contemporary comedian
Ahlering Jackoboice | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Like many other college students around the country this time of the semester, I found myself procrastinating on the pile of work I had to do. Instead of reading my Theology assignment or finishing my math homework, I pulled up the familiar comfort of Netflix on my computer and bundled up in a blanket on
Owen Lane | Thursday, March 1, 2018
Every successful comedian reaches a point in their career when they are dwelling on the cusp. Think John Mulaney before his “New in Town” special. They are well known and widely liked by their fellow comedians, but are unknown to all but ardent comedy fans. These comedians are in a state of flux, where a
Morgan Johnson | Thursday, February 8, 2018
The curtain will open this weekend on the Pasquerilla East Music Company’s (PEMCo) production of “Urinetown.” The student-run musical theater group will perform the satirical show Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. on the Washington Hall main stage. “Urinetown” is a musical about a town that has undergone a drought. In order to compensate
Mike Donovan | Friday, September 8, 2017
This is a satire. Relax. Listen up America. Brace yourselves. The knowledge bombs are coming. They’ll rain down on the soft, fluffy snowbanks of the mainstream media, #disrupting the liberal status quo and #leveraging a new era of truth in the journalistic swamp. The Associated Press — a sadistic institution bent on wiping American Exceptionalism,
Jimmy Kemper | Friday, April 28, 2017
Father John Misty is a difficult artist to write about. No other musician right now inhabits the same space that he does: a space that exists somewhere in the heart of indie and Americana rock, hidden under so many layers of irony, sarcasm, self-loathing and pseudo-intellectual babble that it’s nearly impossible to capture the core