It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for…my takeover of The Spin. I know you’ll miss Julie, but waffles and, well, whatever else they have in Belgium call so you’re stuck with me.
If any of you want to be even more stuck, I encourage you to apply to be a Spin blogger! We’re looking for talented, witty, original, insightful, good-looking (I mean, what?) people to write blogs for the fall semester and we want you! Applications can be found here along with instructions and where to send them.
Don’t forget to do it by August 10 or there’s no telling what I’ll do. Let’s keep me happy, people, shall we?
That’s it for now, don’t forget to send in your applications! We want to hear from you!
And for those of you less-writing-more-reading people, The Spin will be back in publication on the first day of classes, September 5. Tune in and see what we’re up to!
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May 2nd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
You are so corny.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Not funny. And, btw, I was considering applying, until you said “minions.” You run a shitty DP blog…get over yourself.
May 21st, 2007 at 12:28 am
ugh you are the least funny person in the world. please kill yourself
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
“We’re looking for talented, witty, original, insightful, good-looking (I mean, what?) people to write blogs for the fall semester and we want you!”
Evidently, you need not possess any of these qualities to become an editor.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
It would be nice if the same person stopped posting random insults under different names. It’s summer. Get a job or go outside.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
as the proud owner of only one comment on this blog, i am offended by the false assumptions of almost adequite (or should I assume the real name to be Ali Jackson). Different people are posting because that’s how much she sucks.
May 25th, 2007 at 9:56 am
It’d be nicer if people who had the desire to scold others could spell the word “adequate.” Oh, this is also my first post on this Spin post and yes, I must say Ali Jackson (like many DP writers who have nothing to say but a strong need for resume props) sucks.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I have never met Ali Jackson. It’s just sad to watch people bored on their summer breaks randomly bashing someone who they have also never met. This blog isn’t even going to be updated for months! What’s the point? Also, the misspelling is intentional and based on an in-joke with a friend.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Oh, it’s nothing personal (more of a professional critique best expressed through personal bashing), though it is vented as a result of summer downtime. “It” is just resentment that the DP seems only to hire vacuous people to write columns. If you stand in the limelight and suck at what you do, someone will make fun of you. Such is the way of the world.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Ms. Jackson, you must be aware of all of these comments. I believe that the door is wide open for you to deliver a scathing response to people that have nothing better to do than post harsh criticisms on the illustrious “Spin” blog — which doesn’t even publish over the summer. Perhaps a little biting wit of your own in light of these events will win you the favor of those posters above me that have so flawlessly bashed you.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’ll be not offended if Ms. Jackson comes up with creative and imaginative ways to bash me or others. Like I said, it’s nothing personal. In fact, someone who can put others in awe at her ability to churn out witty jabs and retorts could undoubtedly increase her respectability by doing so. Just be certain the response doesn’t include an emotional entreaty about not hurting someone’s feelings, as that would definitely sound more like pitiful braying than the proud flexing of rhetorical skill.
July 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Ali Jackson undoubtedly reads the comments on her blog posts, and her pitiful column that appears weekly in the DP.
We can only assume she pushes forward out of sheer perseverance and a fetish for painful criticism rather than support from anyone. Even her friends have to be honest and tell her she isn’t funny and sucks.
I imagine right now she is reading these comments, and all the other comments that are automatically emailed to her everyday and a little part of her dies with every biting criticism of her pathetically unfunny, uninteresting, and uninspired slop fest of writing.
I would love nothing more than a witty blog entry from Ali, or even a funny retort on these comments but I’m afraid her wit is about as sharp as the decaying gingivitis infected gums of an AIDS patient who lost her dentures.
July 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Just for the record, I also posted one of the comments above, so clearly it’s not one person using different names. And, I do have a job (probably a better one than Ms. Jackson). I’m just annoyed by the “minions” comment, that’s all.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
seriously you people need to find hobbies. i feel sorry for you that you have nothing better to do than sit around in your crappy cubicles at your meaningless jobs and bash some girl you’ve never met. i also pity the fact that clearly none of you appreciate sarcasm. did anyone REALLY think minions was said in seriousness? i haven’t even met the girl and i appreciate her sense of humor.
grow up. get lives. get over it.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:21 am
Ali’s a little hottie . . . i’d be her minion.
August 4th, 2007 at 3:20 am
penn girls are so ugly. freshman year i almost turned gay from my roommate just out of sheer disgust with the female population here. if ali jackson is hot, kill me.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I’d just like to know who/what guidelines stepehnm would use to define his vision of a hot girl. Many of the guys I’ve met at Penn who complain about this usually have a fetish for blondes with too much makeup and fake tans, whom I think are the ugliest creatures on Earth. I think Penn girls would be hotter if we had more natural (ie. not appearing to need hours daily to beautify/mutilate oneself) women around campus.
August 14th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Natural beauty is a 160 lb chick with a big head and sagging breasts. Beauty is a short stout women with no bra. Imagine that! Our vaginas need to be free, not ravaged by the savage c*cks of men. Let men f&^% themselves. Liberate!