among friends

Wednesday, March 25th, 8 p.m.: join Harrell, Duncan and I, and freshman Larry Miller as we go swimming in Bryn Mawr’s eight-lane Olympic-size swimming pool. Haverford students, we will be taking the 7:35 Blue Bus to Bryn Mawr.

Tuesday, March 24th, 11:45 a.m.: join us in Haverford’s Admissions Office for a campus tour with tour guide Genna Cherichello. Read the rest of this entry »

This post was originally intended for a post on another blog about my dad/music, but I think it belongs here too.

Download The Flying Lizards – Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield Cover)

In 1980, white British women sang a song written by black pioneer of funk Curtis Mayfield in 1971.

Searching for “move on up” in google also leads me here. Move-on-up is a social networking site for politically conservative African-Americans.

This “Move On Up” idea is pretty compelling because it’s a phrase that continues to circulate in different ways.

Yesterday evening Robin and I got to talk to Nao about her comfort station while she ate her dinner and wore a Star Wars fleece hat. We spoke with her about her new innovations for the personalized comfort hearts we will be creating for the comfort station.

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One lacrosse game at a time.

Are you a musician? Are you not a musician?

Then visiting artist Jen Delos Reyes needs your help.

Between March 18th and March 22nd, she wants to re-record Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours, track-by-track with Haverford & Bryn Mawr musicians—students, staff, and faculty.  11 bands, choirs, and individuals will be selected to record the 11 tracks on the album. The re-make album will have the original artwork drawn by a Bi-co student. Remaking Rumours will then be pressed on vinyl (hopefully) and distributed for free online.

Whatever you play—guitar, spoons, radiator—we want YOU.

Stop by the Haverford Dining Center lobby on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4TH, from 11am – 2pm or 5 pm – 7:30 pm to listen to tracks and sign-up.

Or, email cwatanas@haverford.edu or jmryan@brynmawr.edu

Pope.L’s Haver-performers are a veritable smorgasbord of funky awesomeness.

Here are a few facts about the eclectic eleven.

Did you know that Merrie has a hamster named Bluto?

Did you know Waldean danced on stage with Estelle at Swarthmore?

Did you know Sarah harvested bees last summer for research on pollination?

Did you know Jesse spent three weeks at a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan?

Did you know Rob has a job walking Maya, an Italian Truffle Hound?

Did you know Adam has been to the Pyramids in Egypt?

Did you know Simon looks kind of like Mischa Maisky, also a cellist?

Did you know Thea was at Obama’s Inauguration?

Did you know Caitlin was in Bryn Mawr’s production of The Love of Three Oranges?

Did you know Peter is in a band called The Yes Effect?

Did you know John is an East Asian Studies major at Bryn Mawr?

Listening Party for Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” this Wednesday. More info to come… Keep an eye out for posters.