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Beer bible doesn't quench thirst for drinking diversions
Maybe we just werent drunk enough
At first glance, The Complete Book of Beer Drinking Games, seemed an ideal college text. The book combines beer with juvenile antics — what could be more fun? The book is even funny to the sober. The definitions of different types of regurgitation, the picture of Ronald Reagan making moose ears and a pained account of an accidental trip to a frou-frou bar, all elicit a chuckle. But the games themselves leave something to be desired
In the beginning of the book, the authors wisely include a warning about excessive alcohol consumption. "If you drink, don't be an idiot," the publisher's note states. This is a good point, but I'm not so sure authors
Andy Griscom, Ben Rond and Scott Johnston followed this advice when writing the book
Perhaps the plethora of word pilots
notice for their figure, is provided by
the book meant to serve as a warning
captive in mind but, fortunately, have to be to the point of yakking — my favorite poke alternative — to have fun, then something is wrong.
Wednesday night my ten low beer game reviewers and I voluntarily plowed through the beer book in search of the perfect game. We immediately ruled out those games that took longer than 5 minutes to
determine so other people have trouble understanding them, drunks may as well not bother.
Book facts
The games are rated by the authors according to "Boot factor," which describes the poke potential. We can write it out.
Grade: B-
Publisher: Mustang Publishing
Pages: 144
? beer = About as fun as snorting beer through your nose.
2 beers = As yummy as the bottom of the icehouse keg.
beech a As satisfying as a
responding beech
4 beers = Equal to working up after a hard night of posturing with no
Story by Steph Brewer
Photo by Christina Neff
Everyone knows that kansas is a basketball school, so when students get together and decide to drink a drink
game why not play.caps?
Two teams line up across the room from each other and take turns trying to toss beer caps into their opponent's cup
When someone hits the cup, their counterpart on the opposing team must drink. If they land the coz inside the cup, the team
get a point. The first step to
accustom a score maker
the others finish off their
beers.
We gave girls versus girls in the most talk in this battle of the sexes was at fever pitch.
This is a basketball game and one that requires little throwing talent. A good release in basketball might transfer over in this game.
transfer over in this game.
— Seth Jones
Categories
Boot factor: 2
2 Beers
Categories was my first drinking game. To hear employees from the Department of Student Life lately, students don't play drinking games.
In Categories, the first player names a category, Diff'rent Strokes' characters, for example. Players go around the circle naming characters until one falters, at which point he or she has to drink. Then the game restarts with a new category.
Categories was fun, though the drinking seemed like an afterthought. And if you take out the beer, it becomes a good road-trip game.
Seth Hoffman
Fuzzy Duck
Boot factor: 2
1 beer
The point: Go around in a circle saying "fuzzy duck," until some trickster shakes things up by saying "duzzy," thus switching the order and the phrase "ducky fuzz." This game was really fun when I was a 17-year-old camp counselor drinking Rolling Rock on my nights off in the Pacones. Now that I am older, the possibility of someone slipping and saying something naughty just doesn't excite.
Steph Brewer
Staff members who participated in this review are 21 years old. The Kansas condones responsible drinking.
ODB carries Wu Tang sound into latest album
by Bryan Anderson Kansan music critic
"this ain't the young DB." The ch or u s begins with the usual rap bravado letting them know that, "You need to recognize he is a p-i-m n."
Comedian Chris Rock introduces the album and makes sure listeners know.
One of the most important questions for rap music fans today is who their favorite member of the Wu Tang Clan. Even for novices to the rap game, the answer is probably going to be OL' Dirty Bastard, otherwise known as ODB.
The ODB is ever the clown prince of the often judicious Wu Tang Clan. Apparently, ODB took some time off from his much-publicized legal woes and decided to make some solo album mischief on his latest solo release, $N^{***a}$ Please. This time around, OBD brings some new energy to the Wu Tang sound but continues the Wu Tang Clan tradition of bringing the ruckus.
Album facts
Title: N***a Please
Artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard
Grade: B+
The ODB proves he is the biggest joker in the Wu Tang Clan, giving shout-outs to everyone and everything on "I Can't Wait," including Dr. Dre, submarines and school teachers.
Label: Electra
In another tune, "Cold Blooded," ODB gets help from Rick James on one of James' original songs.
The mastermind behind the Wu Tang Clan, the RZA, produced the track "Getting High" and brought along the distinctive Wu Tang Clan sound with raw beats and shifting piano sounds.
"Good Morning Heartache" is a soulful R&B song, which has nothing to do with rap music. It is the ODB's album, and he can do whatever he wants to.
On "All In Together Now," the ODB claims, "I'm white and I'm black." With urban beats, snippets of funk guitars and a hip-hop bass line, the ODB says that white people, black people, red people, blue people and even aliens are all "getting hot in here." Is this the side of the ODB visualizing the dream of peace among the races? With all the styles, flavors and names that the OBD brings, I would not put it past him.
Fight Club packs obnoxious bravado with visual punch
By Stephanie Sapienza Kansan movie critic
In a recent essay, George Carlin wrote: "The paradox of our time is that we spend more, have less, buy more, enjoy less. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values." He must have seen a preview of Fight Club.
Film facts
Rating:R
Grade: A
David Fincher is back with a vengeance. The director of *The Game* and Seven has maxed out here with brilliance. I can't
Where:Southwind 12, 3433 Iowa St.
Running Time:
1 hour 40 minutes
imagine him ever topping this movie. Edward Norton plays an average guy making decent money at a typical 9-to-5 job who is attached to all his worldly possessions. He is also addicted to support groups. You name it — testicular cancer, leukemia, Alcoholics Anonymous — he finds that attending all of these is the only way to stay normal.
Then, he meets two people, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) and Tyler Durgen (Brad Pitt). Marla is a support-group addict too, and they have to split up their meetings so as to not ruin the other's homeostasis. Soon after meeting Tyler on a business trip, Norton's apartment is blown to bits, and he is living in Tyler's dilapidated old house. He and Tyler start up the Fight Club, which soon spirals out of control, and that is all can be disclosed without completely ruining the movie.
The film is visually brilliant and Fincher doesn't bore the audience with static shots.
Fight Club is based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. This much is obvious, because screenplays don't usually contain dialogue as interesting and poetic as this dialogue. Norton is incredible (when isn't he?), as is Bonham Carter (when isn't she?). Brad Pitt often is heralded by members of the female audience as a great actor—a status often deemed according to pectoral size. He wasn't that impressive. His role in Fight Club was good, but it was pretty much a rehash of his role in 12 Monkeys.
This whopper of a film opens today. The audience that most likely will be Fight Club's biggest demographic may not comprehend fully what this movie is really addressing. That is, the movie is not just about a bunch of tough guys fighting because they're tough. It's about many more complex issues such as consumerism, psychosis and the drudges of mass economy. There is a lot of grotesque fighting in this movie; however, those who get headaches watching independent and art films just want to bring their Dave Matthews CDs and headphones to entertain themselves between the fighting scenes.
"Smooth,
billboard
"Heartbreaker,
"Music Of My Heart."
"Unpretty,
"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of Mambo)
Satisfy You
"My Love Is Your Love"
"We Can't Be Friends."
"I Need To Know,"
"Scar Tissue,"
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