RagTime, RagTime, Wherefore Art Thou, RagTime?
Only a few things can shock us. Lena Chen entering a convent, perhaps, or Larry Summers getting a Mary Wollstonecraft tattoo.
But yesterday, we were shocked as if by a lightning bolt from the finger of God Himself, right after God had put on a fleece jacket. Spake a commenter:
me says:
bring back ragtime!
Uh, we were kind of assuming no one would even notice we'd discontinued that. As we moved to our new publishing sked of two items/day, RagTime would have become a full third of our posts, and that would be ridiculous. Right? But now we're looking at the week's news, and there appears to be some fun headlines we missed.
So we'll just throw it out to you -- does anyone care / want RagTime back? Maybe do it as one weekly recap? We're assuming there'll be a resounding "no," but let us know in the comments.
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January 26th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Weekly ragtime sounds good – the old daily ragtime seemed like a stretch for material. “How can we give this article on cafeteria food a scandalous headline?” But there were a few nuggets of entertainment in there, so I wouldn’t abandon it altogether.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I really liked Ragtime. I looked forward to it every day. Why not just farm it out to someone?
January 26th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
How hard can it be to come up with five snarky blurbs on articles from other publications a day? Also, this better not be one half of your posts today. That would be quite weak.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Hey, ragtime was pretty cool. Bring it back.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
We did farm it out, which reminds me — if we bring it back, we’ll need new drones, so drop a line if you want to write.
(And this IS half the posts for today. Even weaker when you realize it’ll be the top thing till Monday.)
January 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
What I miss is your sneaky html tags that would pop-up when the mouse hovered over the link (don’t commence)! Definately dish it out to someone and resume the daily R.T. It never seemed like a stretch, obviously b/c papers that had no good material to make fun of weren’t listed that day. A weekly recap would take pretty much the same amount of time as quick, daily links (especially if you’re going to really sift through all the material in the week’s papers.)
January 26th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I’ll tell you what would be even more shocking than Larry Summers getting a Mary Wollstonecraft tattoo: Larry Summers “hooking up” with Mary Wollstonecraft. She was a feminist! He hates women! Or maybe Larry Summers flying to Jupiter on a Mary Wollstonecraft-shaped rocket ship made of creme brulee.
January 26th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
bring it back. i miss it
January 26th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
As an ivy alum who is now a grad student at a non-ivy, I used Ragtime (and the rest of the blog, actually) to keep up with Yale so I don’t have to read the drecky YDN myself. So bring it back!
January 26th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Don’t you mean Lena Chen actually writing a halfway-decent blog would be shocking?
January 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Bring ‘er back, pretty please, so our godawful columnist may get even more exposure
January 26th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Bring back the Ragtime!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
How am I going to procrastinate this semester without Ragtime? Bring it back!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
yes, bring back the daily ragtime
January 26th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
ragtime rocks!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Please post the Pulitzers (and/or plagiarisms)!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Weekly, with a different name, would be awesome.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Bring it back, as long as you continue to keep those Cornell/Darthmouth headlines to a minimum.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
bring it back!!
January 26th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I was wondering about it too. I would like Ragtime back and weekly is cool.
January 27th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Weekly or semiweekly.
January 27th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Ragtime was pretty darn funny. One of the funniest things we get in the Ivies. I’d like to see it again.
January 27th, 2007 at 6:30 am
bring back daily ragtime!
January 27th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Ragtime was easily the best part of this website. Easily. Daily.
January 27th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Daily Ragtime 4eva! Or maybe biweekly or something, if you must have it your way.
January 27th, 2007 at 10:53 am
bring back ragtime, in addition to two other posts!
January 27th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
i guess the response is pretty positive now, but i don’t think you should bring it back fully. most of the time i would click ont the articles and get bored two sentences into them. twice a week sounds good though, only choosing articles that are actually funny
January 27th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
bring it back…. esp w/r/t Cornell… they need *something* on this site
January 27th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Ragtime was amazing. Daily – ALWAYS AND FOREVER!
January 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Ragtime was hilarious. If you can’t do daily, weekly is better than nothing.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:31 am
HELLS YES, bring it back. Daily, please. As b10 noted, the articles themselves may be boring, but it’s the hilarious titles of the links that matter.
January 28th, 2007 at 1:13 am
It was my favorite part of this blog, hands down. Bring it back!
January 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I loved Ragtime – Please bring it back! Also, two items a day is now a thing? I was wondering why news was so slow. Bring back daily ragtime, and don’t include it in the two.
January 28th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
yeah, bring it back!
January 28th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Bring it back, as long as you continue to keep those Cornell/Penn (state) headlines to a minimum!!
January 28th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Bring it back, but how about more from the opinion sections/other stuff in the paper. I’d lve to see more snarkiness about their bigheaded columnists, photographers, and hipsters writing bad music reviews.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I’d say weekly would be good. Daily RagTime is one of those things that sounds so good in theory, but in practice it’s usually not so hot.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I like/d ragtime – pls bring back, daily or twice weekly sounds good.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I like/d ragtime – pls bring back, daily or twice weekly sounds good.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Wherefore means why, not where.
January 28th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I really enjoyed Ragtime. It was probably my favorite part of the site, honestly.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Bring it back!
January 28th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
PLEASE! I miss it!
January 29th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Bring it back! Where else will we get our fix of Daily Princetonian racism and libel?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:26 am
This is really crappy….you guys need to step up your game and shoot for more than 2 posts a day….and you just hired an intern and everything, right?
No excuses.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Hey, don’t rip on them for doing 2 a day – quality over quantity, besides how much happens in the ivy league worth reading daily?. Instead, let them rip on the preening, overambitious reporters, cartoonists, editors, and columnists who make up the “rags.”
January 29th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Bring RagTime Back — its the best way I’d found to keep track of the goings across the Ivy leauge
January 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Yes please, Ragtime FTW
January 29th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
yes
January 29th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Bring it back! bring it back!
January 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Maybe you could make a poll and get nice scientific-ish results about the demand?
January 29th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Screw science. you know science/my common sense has shown that the people who take the time to comment on an issue are usually the ones most passionate about that particular issue. So….what are we talking about again? oh right: bring back the Rag!
January 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
ragtime back!
January 30th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Bring ragtime back and help the masses save time and only read the relevant college newspaper articles…I miss having a digest of what’s goin on in the league. That’s how the blog started, right?
January 30th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Please bring back ragtime.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Bring back ragtime