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[Rocky Sullivan]

You know that I think this is awesome, Mark. Keep up the good work - journalism is always an exciting industry.
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[Mavhunter]

Thanks, guys. This week, there's no real room for a concert, mostly because it's being lumped into Fall Fest. I'm collaborating with a gal in my politics class about a movie we both have to watch for the class. It was on the budget, so there ya go. It'll be a lazy issue for me next week.
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[Mushroom Pie]

[Mavhunter]

Woo. I don't like what the editors did to my article... makes it sound like a ferret escaped.
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[Mavhunter]

RETTA, A COMEDIAN, STOPS BY

Friday, in my book, was the first official day of fall in my book; it reached into the 50s later in the night. As I wrapped up and headed over to the Ferguson Music and Theatre Hall, I found out that it was the first day of winter in some places: the flight for Retta, a stand-up comedian out of Los Angeles, had been cancelled. She was going to make it just in time, so I took the extra time to decide where I could get the best shot and talk with some of the members of CAB. By the time the show got underway, I estimated that roughly 350 people had shown up, a great showing. The opening act was CNU’s very own Step Team, which was very good, despite it being pretty standard fare as far as step teams go. The “mini-sketch� during the dancing kept it from becoming stale, resulting in a great performance from the group.

Then, promptly at 9 PM, Retta took to the stage. Her stand-up was, at its worst, black vs. white, and, at its best, backed with sharp wit and true stories that sounded too bizarre to be true. For example, she opened the show declaring that she likes doing show in the South because the white people are ghetto, too. From there, she covered her fear of mullets, a Kentucky Fried Chicken with no Kentucky Fried Chicken, “sammitches,� off-brand and health food, Magic Johnson’s talk show, and dating Jésus, whose parents were José and Maria, which was too weird for her. Her high points came from accentuating each situation with exaggerated personalities, from the woman who worked at a McDonald’s and had a problem with holding the pickles on a cheeseburger to demonstrating radio ads for clubs such as “CLUUUUUUB CONDOM!�

The best moments of the night involved hotel soap and the sexual lives of lions. With the former, she talked about how she hates flying and when she lands, all she wants to do is shower and take a nap. When she went into the bathroom, she found a small bar of soap, which she produced to show the audience. She asked, “How is this little thing supposed to clean… all of this?� Retta then, for comparison, hid the soap under her breast. She then noted that she watched a lot of the Discovery Channel in a hotel and told us that she learned that lions have sex about 250 times every 76 hours. This was then related to a man’s inability to perform, such as the female lions saying “only 213 times? He must be losing it.�

Overall, it was a terrific show, and the CAB Comedy Committee’s next stellar act is Amy Anderson who will be performing on November 10th. CAB’s next event is its popular Haunted House in the old Student Center on October 28th.

(OOPS, THERE GOES MY COVER.)
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[Its_The_Sneak!!!]

[Mavhunter]

Well, that's why there's such thing as a newspaper editor. :/
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[Its_The_Sneak!!!]

ugh, it's lazy writers like you who make the jobs of editors like me so much harder. If you'd fix your own mistakes, then we wouldn't have to fix 'em and then have you come in crying about how you don't like how we fixed your stupid error-wait a sec, I'm not a newspaper editor. Never mind.
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Come into my den let me hear you cluck
You can be my hen and we can f(Bu-GAWK)
A bite to the leg, it's time to play
Baby, let me be your egg that needs to get laid.
- CEO Nwabudike Morgan
"The Chicken of Lust"

[Mavhunter]

If journalists did that, we wouldn't need editors.
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[Der]

Yeah, I suppose if journalists went out and came up with all of their own assignments, edited them for grammar and style, laid them out, coordinated with all the other journalists to make sure the layout made sense and then corrected the mistakes regarding that layout, all while dealing, at the same time, with people calling to get other stories covered, you could probably do away with desk editors. Believe me, when I was an editor, correcting lazy grammar was generally the least of my worries every night.
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Married to Terri.

Signed,

[Mavhunter]

Comments from Facebook:



Supershot is from the opening act to Retta, the CNU Step Team. I took about 20 or so photos, I guess they just liked this one the most. If you're in it, go ahead and tag yourself.



My review for Retta. This time, it wasn't heavily edited, but damn, was this hard to write. I doubt I'll elect to do comedy again. Once again, it's more proof that I don't elect to do article titles... I just don't have the creative ability to do so, I guess. But look, they gave my photography credit to someone else. Oh how I cry.
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[Mavhunter]

Appeared November 1, 2006:



Ah yes, one of my dreams come true. I dump my odd music habits onto Christopher Newport in... Mark Newton's Music Corner? What the hell? Yeah, I told them to come up with a good title, but jeez. It might as well be "Mark Newton's Musik Korner" or something. Ah well. I'm signed on for one of these a month. Look forward to The Beatles' "LOVE" review in the future!



I loved how I wrote this article... all in first-person and investigatory. It's nifty. The highlight of the event was the camera, which wasn't using the flash (I found out why later), so I had to hold the camera still while it gathered enough light. The girl in the photo was straight from the Ring, and as the camera finally clicked, she grabbed my arm to tell me "dude, get out of here."

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[Mavhunter]

WARNING: Some of the crazy things that are in this article are not me. Read the caption after it!



Appeared January 24, 2007

Ah, my first article after break. I got handed an album and... here it is. I noticed a lot of edits that make me out to be evil. Such as the analogy of names was changed from Brandon Flowers of the Killers to "a flowerpot" and somehow my words got edited into "it must be hard to be as good as everyone else". I... did not write that. Apologies, you saw it here first!
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[Seanie]

I'm disappointed you didn't write the, "It's hard work trying to sound like everyone else," line. It made me laugh.