Skip to main content

We're an independent student-run newspaper, and need your support to maintain our coverage.

Subscribe!

Sign up for our email newsletter!

* indicates required
Newsletter Subscription

Thanks to an ever-growing need to create, consume and discard, we have made it almost impossible to even care enough to make our depictions of higher powers worthwhile. This materialist virus has flattened the way we live and, subsequently, our sacredness, leaving us with only the profane. 

Everyone’s been to that one house party — the one where everything just clicked. The music hit right, nobody was too sober or too far gone and you left thinking, “that was a night.” But being on the other side of that? Actually hosting the party that people talk about after? That’s a completely different kind of high.

Much of the show is centered around Eddie Jen’s unconventional style of drag — as he put it, “I don’t lip sync, I don’t serve looks, I serve books!” — and the struggle to embrace it when faced with the world’s constant rejection.

Upon the release of “Yes, Chef,” an erotic audio starring Shawn Hatosy from “The Pitt,” two Daily Californian contributors, Mighty Behrendt and Vivienne Freeman, sat down to talk about the rise of audio-based pornographic material and the recent rise of celebrity participation in the production of such content.

This brings me to the question of whether life imitates art, as it reflects the feeling captured in the reality that art represents. Returning to Wilde’s words, it seems Monet has created a “type” through the enveloppe. In that case, does life attempt to copy the enveloppe? If it does, is it true that life inherently imitates art? 

 

As Gramps’ dementia progresses, his ability to talk has also dramatically decreased. And yet, these are the stories that stand the test of time, stand the test of speech, and stand the test of even memory. As I remind him of some of the stories I shared in this essay, his eyes light up with the enormous smile that I grew up loving and attempting to emulate on my own. Gramps hasn’t just been my grandpa; he has been my father figure.