Yale Blogger Makes Sloppy-Drunk Kids at Toad’s Seem Decent
Performing CPR on Pablog last week (his sinus rhythm is still flatlining; clap harder, damn you!) made us guiltily wonder who else was toiling away out there on the student blog-quad, under our radar. We do have a blogroll, way over on the right somewhere, but it was last updated around the time Lincoln was shot; and we do have our Blog Man on Campus critic, who chimes in every so often. But there's obviously a ton of sites we miss, and so, with open hearts and open minds, we set out looking for signs of life.
Blogs it took to piss us off: 1.
We want to like Yale blog 06520-2848, we really do. The site's name, for starters, we assume is a middle finger to the insufferable Harvard magazine 02138. And when we saw the April 6 entry, we got straight-up Christmas-morning-when-you're-seven giddy. You know Gawker's delightful Blue States Lose column? (For those who don't: a caustic -- even for Gawker -- observer rips on the 10 most obnoxious hipster pics from photo sites like Misshapes, Last Night's Party and the Cobrasnake.) Well, 06520 has his own little imitation, except the pics are of drunk Yalies at New Haven dives like Toad's and BAR.
Ordinarily, this feature, called "Go Shawty!", could not be more up our alley if we purchased an actual alley and paved it with printouts. But then we started to actually read the copy underneath each photo, and ... let's just say Mr. ZIP Code gives IvyGate commenters a run for their title of Worst People On The Internet.
Through five "Go Shawty!" installments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), blogger 06520 probably couldn't be more hateful or misogynistic if he tried. Literally, there isn't a single photo of a girl that doesn't reduce her to a sex receptacle. Mix in some casual racism and contempt for anybody that doesn't look like they attend Yale, and you have a caption contest that accomplishes the impossible: 06520 makes sloppy-drunk kids at Toad's come off decent by comparison.
UPDATE 2:45 p.m.: Silly ZIP code! Deleting posts from your web site doesn't mean a "thang," in shawty parlance, to Google Cache. Archived copies of the pages are here. While we're updating: we forgot to mention that we emailed 06520 late last night and haven't heard back.
11 Comments | 
| 
Print This Post
Read more: Blog Man on Campus, gawker, this is why people hate the ivy league, Yale
Email – 
Search
About
Follow us on Twitter
Report a bug
Archives
RSS Feed
April 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am
See, no one will read your blog if you become arbiters of decency.
You missed the story on this “Go, Shawty!” business, viz. it was not funny.
Anyway, this post came off as very pious, when you could have easily mocked the zip-code blog for cracking jokes straight out of the movie, “Idiocracy.”
April 16th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
The captions really aren’t funny. The “Fuck you, dad!” one was good, but that’s it.
April 16th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Looks like you’ve been irrelevant-anated by the zipcode’s savvy deleting pages skills.
April 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
google for “06520-2848 april 6″ and then look at google’s cached version.
you can’t delete things on the internet.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Hey, since when has IvyGate had popups? That’s lame. I wouldn’t care normally since I have firefox block them, but feeddemon uses IE :( and it totally just angered my weak laptop with a popup. lame.
but, uh, the point was–I think I comment-complained once about the series, don’t recall. I never found them as funny as I thought possible. X__x
April 17th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Way to go, jerks! he was writing an absolutely hilarious blog. Those captions were hilarious! “Women are not good at science or math.” Such an obvious dig at Summers/Harvard. Way to pull an Imus on him.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Sam Jackson – what the hell are you doing, typing that “X__x” nonsense? Save shit like that for the Pokemon blog.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Can we like find out who’s behind the blog thru the unique 9-digit zip code?
April 19th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
someone savvier than me definitely could… to search for someone’s PO box address, go to this site and type “return all” (no quotes)…the “address” field is the mailing address, and since his is obvi PO Box 202848, there should be some way. unfortch, that’s the extent of my computer knowledge…
http://scripts.its.yale.edu/cgi-bin/ph/directory.yale.edu?Query=&btnG.x=51&btnG.y=4
(that’s the yale directory site, someone please find out and spill!)
December 13th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Hello!! cool :)
I seek xenadrine rfa 1 here!
http://xenadrin.freehostia.com/xenadrine/site_map.html “>.?
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I’ve just been hanging out waiting for something to happen.