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Through The Looking Glass: Path to "Pigeons"
By Aaron Pellowski | January 14, 2016Ever wonder about the person behind Pigeons of Boston? Aaron Pellowski '15 returns to The Mirror to fill you in.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | May 28, 2015“If Jesus came back and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.” — “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986)
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | May 21, 2015Of all the genres of music trending among the kids these days, it’s hip-hop and rap that present themselves as the most consistently engaged in enigmatic epistemic claims.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | May 7, 2015American teenagers are wont to deploy the abbreviation “ilu” in text messages to one another. Like most of these abbreviations, such as “lol,” “brb,” “srs,” “gj” and the rest of that ilk, I find “ilu” a hideous piece of language. I cannot imagine a 17-year-old boy with tears streaming down his Dorian face, calling up to the object of his infatuation on a cold Italian spring night, “Silvia, Silvia, ilu! ilu!”
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | April 30, 2015At some point this weekend, I overheard Mikayla Delores-Burt — one of my associates — stumble over the last word of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s most famous line with hilarious results: “I like big butts, and I cannot die.”
Opinion
Pellowski: Nobody Rages, Ever
By Aaron Pellowski | April 23, 2015Like the “nobody rages anymore” meme, current complaints are nothing new.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | April 23, 2015I’m on the Dartmouth Coach, headed to Rhode Island to turn up and see Waka Flocka Flame.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | April 16, 2015I went to a really good high school. I know this because when I look up my high school on any of the websites that rank high schools and say which ones are the best, these websites all agree my high school is one of the best.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | April 9, 2015Over the break, I had the opportunity to have my eyes retested since, to me at least, my vision had deteriorated enough in the harsh palms of winter so as to render everything I saw like one of Monet’s haystacks.
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Boots and Rallies
By Aaron Pellowski | April 2, 2015My writing is my Trojan horse. I am waiting inside to ambush you with weapons of essence.