Monthly Archives: April 2008
Stop the World, I Want to go Down
But before I go down, Can I get another chance to make the world a better place? The world politics and current events forced me to take a look into the past. A good book and some spring romance gave birth to my peaceful mood. The First World War began because many sovereign super-powers had [...]
Posted in Current Events, History, International Tagged niall ferguson, war of the world, world war I, world war II 15 Comments
John Mayer
Somehow, someway, John Mayer won me over. I’ve loathed this guy for years, and it all started with one song: “Your Body Is A Wonderland“. Excuse me? Shut up John Mayer. Where the hell did you come up with that phrase, and why did you turn it into a catchy song that gets stuck in [...]
Enter the Guy on the Floor
After recently getting kicked out of my parents house my sophomore year of college, I called my friend, Molyneux, and asked him if I could crash at his dorm for a couple days until I figured out where I was going to live. Well, a couple of days turned into a few months where I [...]
Blue Point Brewing Company’s Hoptical Illusion
Last week whilst dining at the Firkin Tavern, I was encouraged by my server to try a new beer they had just brought in to grace the legendary Firkin taps. I was informed that is was an IPA (India Pale Ale) brewed on Long Island by the Blue Point Brewing Company, and that is was [...]
Posted in Food Tagged beer, benjamin franklin, blue point brewing company, homer simpson, hoptical illusion, ipa, triumph brewery 12 Comments
Episode IV: The Downward Spiral Begins
Jason Morgan's account of how Babeled began: with a random roommate placement as a freshman in college.
An Outsider’s Take on Babeled Creation Myths
Synopsis In a limited sense, this is all my fault. What Do You Mean? Last summer, I entered corporate IT as a college intern with wild-eyed wonder. The new world I saw around me didn’t always make sense (do I really have to laugh at jokes in meetings, even if they aren’t funny?), but it [...]
Enter the Spanish…
For me it all goes back to The College of New Jersey. Flashback: September ’03…. Claire D calls to tell me to meet her new friends Greg, Jay, and The Puer. The Puer? What is a puer I wondered. It wasn’t long before I learned a puer is a Rutgers student who moonlights on my [...]
Enter The Dragon…
Hello there… I’m the mysterious 6th babeler. Mr. Movie Whore this one is for you… This blog started as a brain “child” of Mr. Rineberg. Once titled under a different name… But due to differences and personal matters the 6 of us left the original site and brain stormed this illegitimate “child”. We covered our [...]
All Men Are Created Equal?