There are few things more consistently irritating than Princeton's F. Scott Fitzgerald-fetish. If I have to read one more headline coyly heavy-handedly alluding to This Side of Paradise, I am going to crack up.

That said, a new blog at Princeton, The Underside of Paradise, is quickly becoming one of our favorites. Mordant, clear-headed, and above all, earnest, the author of Underside -- known only by his (or her?) electronic sobriquet "Amory" -- provides a much-needed voice of dissent from the humorless orange-and-black triumphalism of The Prince.

Here Amory comments on liberal icon Wendy Kopp's history at the Tory (she was on the masthead for three issues in the mid-'80s), here he unearths a cartoon from the Tiger so old it is actually funny, and here he posts about Whit Stillman's film Metropolitan, now available at hulu.com ("This movie could be boring unless you're self-conscious, status-obsessed, or an aesthetic reactionary. In short, if you go to Princeton.")

"The Anti-Sex Blogger," a guest feature on the blog authored by an Anscomber, is sheer genius and a window into the bizarre, anti-life pathology which is overtaking Princeton (or parts of it).

Finally, in one of his best posts, Amory proposes "firm" as a piece of lingo emblematic of Princeton:

Firmness sums up all the material promises of a Princeton education: one's pick of tight, thin coed bodies on campus and plum jobs upon graduation. Firmness is a way of life, a rule to be followed. According to a quick search, the Princeton website has about 40 pages that contain the exhortatory phrase "Be firm." So next time you want to express approval, forget "sexy", forget "exclusive", forget, "frat." When something is good say, Damn, that is firm.

(Hey, is your friend's blog really "rad"? Wouldn't it be just amazing if we did a Blog Man on Campus about it? Well, guess what: only you can make that happen! Please tell us about interesting, provocative, or entertaining blogs across the Ivy League.)