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

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?

And you never have any idea how it happened.

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!

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.”

He quotes a few of these painful FML’s: “April 26: ‘I’m 19 and I have a drinking problem. What am I supposed to do when I am allowed to drink?’” The one great benefit of Harvard FML, Reverend Page suggests, is that it is a forum for people who feel that they have no one else to go to.

Page ends the sermon by saying that perhaps we need the presence of God instead of ” shifting responsibility to some nebulous ‘out there.’”

The Voice appreciates Reverend Page’s critical take on Harvard FML and is glad to see that the website has fostered much discussion, even research papers, around the phenomenon.

You can listen to the sermon online (or download it) here.

See our April 2009 issue on a profile of Reverend Jon Page.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

Also, given my track record I have come to realize that I will probably choose “fashion” or “style” as my beat for this amorphous Editor’s Blog.

“We’re disturbed. Not by the tight cropped sweaters, for we’ve always been a proponent of men showing their figures and wearing less clothing…. But since when is Harvard a fashion point of reference? … Even if Harvard kids would never wear this stuff (or most things remotely more interesting than boat shoes with no socks), the problem is, the world doesn’t need them to think themselves any more important or WONDERFUL than they already think they are.”

Dear Amy, thank you for lazily subscribing to two of the oldest Harvard cliches ever: that Harvard student’s can’t dress well and that Harvard students are completely self-absorbed. A quick look through Noicethreads can prove the first wrong, and an actual encounter or conversation with any Harvard student will prove the second wrong.

But wait! It doesn’t end there. See Amy’s other fantastically incorrect vision of Harvard students in her article about Harvard Yard, the fashion line launched by Harvard:

“…Harvard Yard — a lawn we imagine makes a nice resting ground for Harvard students to repair glasses, wipe down their pocket protectors, and memorize an extra few digits of pi — inspired the spring collection.”

Yeah, that’s real original.

Photo from the Harvard Gazette