An Introduction to Nautical Themes

Spring is an interesting season. It starts with a warming of the winter cold that transitions the occasional, light snowfall into torrential downpours sometimes continuing for a week with no end. Contrasting the few weeks of rain, on occasion the cumulonimbus clouds dissipate to reveal a scintillating sun as the temperature simultaneously rises into the increasingly warm 80s….

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Spring Fever

The Spring Equinox marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. On March 17th, the day and night will have equal length, literally the definition of equinox in Latin*. St. Louis has a few truisms of spring that occur annually despite no one really knowing the origin of which. Baseball fanatics will begin a six month…

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Quilted Jackets, or How to Not Dress Like a Marshmallow 

Missouri finally found a manner to up the misery: make it 20 degrees colder than it should be. Unless you’re one of those guys who rationalize wearing shorts and a tee shirt throughout the cold, you’ve probably noticed too. Nonetheless, have no fear because I’m here with a second edition on keeping warm in the winter. Last month’s…

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The Way to Warmth

Today is December 22nd, the shortest day of the year and longest night for  those in the Northern Hemisphere; from now on every day will get longer and every night shorter. The winter solstice marks a major turning point for us because the longer days allows us more opportunity to show off the style. Soon, 4:48 will…

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Help, I Can’t Color

Relax, we know you haven’t taken an art class since freshman year and we know you don’t understand matching colors any better than Brad Pitt understands how to ugly. We aren’t going to bore you with a color wheel to explain analogous and complementary colors; we know you wouldn’t read that snore-fest anyways. Instead, we found…

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You Just Woke Up

There it is. Wait, it’s following you. Is “it” you? Is that really you? Unfortunately, it seems so. When did this happen? You don’t realize when it began (does anything really have a beginning? Is time a flat circle?), it just did. Today you woke up and you have this “weird” want to look good. That’s not gay,…

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