October 19, 2009
After serving Farmville’s art enthusiasts and music lovers for almost two years, The Mad Hatter – the big lime-green cinder block building at 208 N. South Street next to Macados — is shutting down.
Over the summer, business hours and employee hours were shortened.
Food and coffee is still being served, and the art on the ground level is being sold in silent auction format. No further live music has been scheduled.
It has not been announced where Tuesday trivia night will take place after October 31st.
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September 24, 2009
The Other Acclaimed Horror Writer: Peter Straub, writer of seventeen horror novels including Ghost Story, will give a reading in the Molnar Recital Hall tonight at eight. Straub was supposed to do this a year ago, but had to reschedule. If you’re free tonight, go see it. Horror writers in person > Thirsty Thursdays.
RIP Frog: For those who have been at Longwood for a while, a good friend recently passed away. Will Pettus, an ‘06 alumnus, died this week of a heart attack while in Cumberland Gap, Kentucky. If you knew Will and would like to pay your respects, go here. We’ll remember Will as an educator and an outdoorsman. He smiled a lot, knew how to hang out, and he liked overalls. There aren’t enough people like Will, and we’ll miss him.
HEADLINE HEADLINE HEADLINE: We would just like to say that we think it’s pretty awesome and quite fitting that the rugby headlines in the Rotunda ARE IN ALL CAPS RAHHHHHHHHHH.
Big. Ass. Website.: If you haven’t already noticed, you no longer have to include WordPress when typing in the name of this website. Just type longwoodhole.com
ALSO: We’re now accepting artwork submissions. Photos, sketches, paintings, Paint and iPhone doodles, comic strips, etc. Submissions do not have to pertain to Longwood. It just needs to be weird, funny, interesting, or a combination of all of these characteristics. A black and white photo of an old person’s wrinkled-ass hands does not, in our opinion, fit into those categories. But if the wrinkled-ass hands are flicking us off, well, we would certainly publish that!
Send to longwoodhole@gmail.com
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September 18, 2009
Three years we’ve enjoyed free newspapers – and now it’s over. Just like the hard-drinking honky-tonker who awakes one morning to an empty bed, this semester we must awake to empty kiosks.
Please come back, darlin! We'll treat you right this time! (photo credit: The Longwood Hole)
No longer can we fall asleep with a paper in our arms. If we want it now, we’ll have to go to the Internet. Or pay money.
According to one distributor,”I still deliver the paid subscriptions, but you can’t get a free paper on campus anymore. Some people are upset but not enough to actually do anything about it.”
After all the times we swore we’d never pay money for it!
A source within the SGA stated that the fifteen thousand dollars spent on the Collegiate Readership Program was the lowest from any participating school in Virginia. The SGA voted to use the money previously spent on the CRP to resurrect The Virginian, the Longwood University yearbook.
We’ll be taking a closer look at The Virginian, which looks to be the exact opposite of free: it will be sold to students for thirty dollars.
Yeah. We’ll be listening to this song all weekend.
UPDATE (9/21/09) — Things aren’t looking good for free news.
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September 10, 2009
Crackers With Less Cheese: In case you haven’t already heard, Longwood’s funding has suffered a $3.5 million cut from the $30 million in general funding. All the other state schools received similar shaftings.
The End of a Dumbass Era: The two-headed duck thing, also known as Two-Headed Trojan Duck or Tacky McTacky, is finally gone. Freshmen must now search for a new eyesore as a backdrop for their photos. Here’s a good start.
Why Longwood? Pocketcams, bitch: So we recently found this hidden hunk of wonderfulness…
“Their classes. Their activities. Their thoughts. Their friends.”
After we finished the last season of ”The Sopranos” this summer, we were wondering where we’d now get our daily drama fix. Fix found.
Unfortunately, despite the website’s claim that each week they’ll be posting an “episode from their life,” three of the seven bloggers have so far submitted exactly dick.
Maybe they are saying that life at Longwood is mostly about forgetting important shit you were supposed to do. We would buy that.
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September 1, 2009
“Captain Farmville Strikes Again,” a Facebook group with almost four-hundred members and over a hundred wall posts recounting special Captain moments, was disababled recently for being ”hateful and/or slanderous,” according to the group’s administrator.
Now that’s just doggone silly, Facebook. Captain Farmville, though legally required to stay off Longwood’s campus, is far from hated. Some of us are scared of him, some appreciate his contribution to our town’s character and lore, and some just wish he was still receiving regular psychiatric treatment. But no one we know hates the guy. How can you hate someone who waves a wand and conducts traffic with a passion that rivals Gustavo Dudamel?
Slanderous? Okay, maybe they have something there. But if they think that was bad, have they seen the Twitter account?
Illustration by Keith Byrdie
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