It is going to snow 6-10 inches tonight. That is all.

Urban Outfitters announced that their next show in their Secret Generator Series is today, Sunday, October 3rd at the Power Station at 540 Harrison Ave in South Boston. The band Neon Indian will be playing.

Neon Indian is a “chillwave band” (read: superhipster) from Texas. For those of you not hipster enough to know who Neon Indian is, don’t bother going. For the rest of you, GO because the show is free!

The show is first come, first served; doors open at 3pm and the show starts at 4pm.

Additionally, Urban Outfitters is giving away gift cards courtesy of UO and Levi’s at the show. Tweet pics from the show to @urbanoutfitters with the tag #UOxLEVIS and you could get one.

Why study on a Sunday when you can have you some free Neon Indian?

Struck an epiphany while packing…

And you never have any idea how it happened.

Hi everyone! Hope your summers have been grand so far.

Some of you may have noticed that the submission process for Harvard FML is a bit different now. Instead of typing in your FML on the home page, you must now go to a submit page.

Although we realize this may cause some inconvenience on behalf of our readers, our previous method of collecting submissions was a bit glitchy (it was cutting off submissions, not processing submissions all together, etc.) so we had to resort to a separate submit page.

If you’re a computer whiz and can help us figure out a simple way of returning it to the old process of submission-through-homepage, shoot us an email at thehvoicemail@gmail.com.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Last Sunday, Reverend Jonathan C. Page, the Epps Fellow at Memorial Church, gave a sermon with a title we are all familiar with: “FML.”

Yes, the sermon was about Harvard FML.

Perhaps the greatest part of the sermon is hearing Reverend Page read aloud some of the embarrassing and outrageous posts from Harvard FML. Yet, he also explores with a critical eye the nature and the “disturbing” mentality that the website fosters, warning against the kind of cynical reduction which the three letters, “FML” may propose.

“Expressing frustration through FML might work, instead of just saying ‘don’t worry, be happy’…but is it ideal? Is that the way we should cope with the bumps of our life?” Page asks. “Everytime something bad happens you shrug it off with the phrase, ‘F my life.’”

Reverend Page strikes a chord in every Harvard student’s heart when he warns against seeing the world “through FML glasses.”

“You turn a written assignment, which might be an opportunity for learning and expanding your horizons, into a burden,” he says. “You take the complex world of relationships into the simple calculus of sex.”

Yet, Harvard FML does seem to have some redeeming qualities. Page explores some of the more serious FML posts that express deep pain, the ones that use FML as “a coping mechanism,” making light of difficult situations “so that others may see.” Read the rest of this entry »

Ah, spring. Nice weather. Classes slowly strolling to their end. Prefrosh descending on the campus. And hoooooly crap, a whole lot of events coming up! And with those events, some pretty intense publicity. The area outside the Science Center is basically a war zone for the pamphlet wielding minions that loiter around its entrance, shoving info about events into your hands left and right–ELEGANZA! SEXY DHALL PARTY! TOTALLY AWESOME LECTURE! By this point, I’ve become desensitized. I smile and take a pamphlet and keep walking each time (I take one every time it’s offered because I know how difficult it is to approach people with those darn things!).

Every once in a while though, a publicity initiative thinks outside the box and does wonders. Today, there were pieces of a mannequin strewn across the rocks of the Science Center. Um, the mannequin was naked and covered in paint and words and stuff. Pretty hilar, so thumbs up for Fat Men in Skirts, a “hysterical dark comedy” for coming up with this publicity idea!

Nekkid mannqeuin. nBD.

Also, there were water jugs on the Science Center lawn but…this clearly caught more of my attention. Bravo.

Not a huuuge fan of Old Spice, but I just really like this ad. Just sayin’!