DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
That’s right, we’re still gone until September 1st. In the meantime, Break Out The Oreos recommends paying attention as the dust settles after last night’s finale to the Democratic National Convention. We also recommend checking out our friend Ben’s post-gaming over at Election Day Countdown.
Oh, and this:
Let’s do this one right, America.
DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
So much for the hiatus–this bit off breaking news was just too good to lay off of.
You may recall Break Out The Oreos‘ prior coverage and interactions with Jeff Deck (Dartmouth ‘02), the “mild-mannered New Englander” whose day job as a “grammar vigilante” earned him a berth in our BOTO Picks. The Chicago Tribune once described him and his pals as “Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation,” a description that does Jack Kerouac (a two-time Columbia dropout) a good measure of injustice. We made the obvious jokes about Dartmouth’s commendable perpetration of traditional values like douchebaggery and vandalism, but never expected anything to ever come of it other than having Mr. Deck show up in our comments section.
But what ho! Mr. Deck has appeared in the news again, not two-and-a-half months after we dedicated a “pick” to him! It seems that his cross-country travels of grammar correction brought him to the Grand Canyon in March, where he apparently supplied the punchline to all of our jokes by vandalizing/correcting a hand-painted sign that has stood in the national park for more than sixty years. Mr. Deck and his accomplice Benjamin Herson both pled guilty last week and received a sentence of “a year’s probation, during which they cannot enter any national park or modify any public signs.” They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the sign.
It would appear, due to the stipulation that they cannot modify public signs for a year, that Mr. Deck and his friends will be ceasing their typo-slaughtering crusade and, as a result, will not be in the news for a while. They also won’t be camping at Yosemite anytime soon. On the other hand, you never know when another scandalous grammar-centric crisis may wrack the Ivy League like this one has. One can only hope.
Hiatus and the Alphabet Game
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DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Well, the new semester is approaching quickly, and Devon’s about to go into finals mode in order to (a) push across his last responsibilities from his summer job, (b) pack his stuff to move back to college, (c) help his parents clean the house, and (d) somehow fit in a three-day trip to the Big Island, all before flying out to New York. Once there he will need to (a) unpack, (b) get settled, (c) go see a Yankee game, (d) move over to a new computer, and (e) think of something to write about before returning to regular posting.
As such, Devon will see you all again on the first of September. Nicole may go on a similar break, but nobody can be completely sure of it until she returns to Westchester from Florida where she has been out of contact due to (a) the lack of internet access and (b) hurricanes.
In the meantime, you may compound the sadness of losing Break Out The Oreos for a week with more sadness over losing The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and IvyGate for the same amount of time. What will we do?
DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
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DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
We’re gradually implementing new features here at Break Out The Oreos, some of them visible to you and some of them not. We’ve beefed up our site-mapping and search engine compatibility, which is why a Google search for “Break Out The Oreos” actually leads you to where it is supposed to. The same applies to yours truly. These and other changes have resulting in higher visbility for our humble blog, which has recently had several weeks with three hundred or more hits. Last month our blog was visited seven hundred times.
Now, while the whole “150 views on a good day” strategy is nice and all, it’s still a far cry from the type of site traffic that other, more prominent and better established blogs receive (Sex and the Ivy gets over 2,000 hits a day, but then again, none of us here at Break Out The Oreos have quite the kind of social life that Ms. Chen does). This is all the more reason for you, our loving and loyal readership, to help get the word out–tell your friends about us! Visit more often!
Devon outlines the big changes coming to BOTO, after the jump. Read More
