Blog Woman On Campus: Magic Molly
In this sphere of blog, you come across a lot of crap. In fact, I would say at this point that blogging itself is a mostly terrible phenomenon which has attracted a bunch of terrible people to write a lot of terrible things about their terrible selves. But there are always redemptive exceptions.
Molly Young (Brown '08), is one of those exceptions. Her blog, Magic Molly, is loosely confessional, but in the sense a dream-journal or notebook of errant ideas could be called confessional. Surreal but still landed, pensive but never theoretical, well-read but not obtrusively so, a healthily self-amused Magic Molly writes about various minor events from her life and thoughts of interest -- all within a neat, minimalist format that other bloggers would do well to emulate. Here's a representative excerpt from her blog:
I went out for the papers. At this time, of course, they all have their special sections to eulogize famous deaths of the past year. I tried to summon a generalized mourning, but felt the only real loss to be Pluto. There was a photograph of the former planet in the science section.
Certain facts invite a peculiar melancholy: the fact that the Babylonians buried their dead in honey, or the ability of the Araucana hen to lay pink or blue eggs. Pluto's demotion from planet to trans-Neptunian object will join the ranks of these facts.
Really there's nothing more I can say about this except to check out her blog for yourself. Seriously, do it -- it's a genuinely interesting web presence. Kind of a rare thing.
UPDATED: So it turns out that this is not actually a picture of Molly but rather a picture of her best friend.
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October 4th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Yeah, sounds absolutely fucking fascinating. Jeez, go dig up some dirt already.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Agree….this isn’t Ivy League News/Gossip. How about not using your editorial powers to make plugs for your friends’ blogs??
October 4th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Agree….this isn’t Ivy League News/Gossip. How about not using your editorial powers to make plugs for your friends’ blogs??
October 4th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I rather miss Pluto – it gets lonely orbiting out here on a Platonic sphere.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I rather miss Pluto – it gets lonely orbiting out here on a Platonic sphere.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Well, she certainly looks like a Brown student, in all her hipster splendor.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
her blog is one of the few websites i visit everyday. i think she’s great.
October 4th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I don’t see this “hipster splendor” you’re referring to–I thought Columbia was the hipster Ivy. She’s smart and cute and she writes with a disctinctive style. There’s Brown for you.
October 4th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
She is indeed great… Envy has destroyed nations and is indeed doing so to other ivies….
October 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
that’s not actually her in the picture, she’s really much prettier…
October 4th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I, for one, love the diction. You Penn dip-shits can go back to your rap albums. Her big glasses accentuate her Brown, Americanized, Amélie, emo, quirky persona. Do me? Yes please.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
That was great.
October 6th, 2007 at 3:45 am
c873t
October 7th, 2007 at 11:04 am
My BFF. I lurf her!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Absolute rubbish- pure drivel, so not cool, so desperately seeking to come across as cool, so fucking incompetent in that Brown way.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Absolute rubbish- pure drivel, so not cool, so desperately seeking to come across as cool, so fucking incompetent in that Brown way.