Thursday, December 17, 2015

DeCafe Stops Serving Ramen Noodles and Cookies, Thousands Starve



Due to a recent legal conflict, Deca leaders announced earlier this week that popular food items such as cookies and ramen noodles would no longer be available for student purchase.
Since then, the school has been seized chaos and despair as unruly hordes raided the DeCafe in search of the last individual ramen noodles or cookie crumbs, while thousands more collapsed, lifeless in the hallways, consumed by undernourishment.
“How could they do this to us!” screeched junior Emma Willard, clothes in tatters and face in full war paint as she prepared to attack the DeCafe after fifteen minutes without easily available junk food, “how could they deprive us of necessary sustenance and leave us to starve and die like dogs!?!”
In response to numerous firmly worded emails and at least seven violent riots, Deca officials held a press conference concerning the pressing food shortage and widespread starvation among the student body.
“We’re doing everything we can,” said Deca President Jenny Abzurg, “but there’s a whole lot of weird legal stuff that comes with serving unprepared foods that we’d sort of just been ignoring up to this point, so you guys are probably just going to have to sit tight for awhile.”
“That’s okay with ya’ll, right?” Abzurg concluded to the moaning horde emaciated students sprawled out on the crowd, too weak even to rise.
“Oh, the woe,” said sophomore Jonathan Godnies, who, at the time of our interview, was slowly dying of malnutrition in the language hallway, “how fragile a thing life is. One moment you’re lively and happy, then all of a sudden someone stops selling Cliff Bars and leaves you to die, emaciated and forgotten in some dark and desolate hallway.”
When informed by reporters that food was readily available in the cafeteria, Godnies said, “nah, I’m good. I can’t stand that healthy goop they started serving there.”

A Review of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”


Thus far, praise for the newest installment in the Star Wars series has been nearly unanimous. Critics have been raving that its solid acting, compelling story, and return to practical visual effects make in one of the best, if not the single best, Star Wars film. And all of those are valid points. But none of that can make up for the fact that I said it couldn’t be good, so it can’t be good.
You see, when Disney announced that they would be rebooting the Star Wars franchise, I sent out a twitter post saying, “yet another heartless Hollywood money grab #CrucifyHollywood.” As more details about the movie emerged, I wrote yet more social media messages saying, “J.J Abrams is a heartless hack and everyone knows it #CrucifyJJ,” and “Disney will ruin this and nothing I see will change that #CruicyWaltDisney’sCryogenicalFrozenHead.”
So, as you can see, I have staked my reputation as a sophisticated and intelligent cultural critic on this particular movie being of low quality. And, therefore, I will maintain my stance that the acting is bad, the plot is uneven, the characters are stock and uninteresting, and the visual effects feel like they belong in a 1998 direct-to-VHS movie, even if none of those things are, strictly speaking, true.
Look, I can see that some of you might be having a hard time wrapping your head around this, so I’ll lay it out in the simplest terms possible. I said that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be bad. Now that they have seen it, almost every critic on the planet says that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is good. Both of us can’t be right, and if the other people are right then I would have to be wrong, so therefore Star Wars: The Force Awakens is an objectively bad movie. 
You understand? It’s just basic logic.