You know how the world is sort of going to pieces, what with expensive gas and rice, and related famines and genocides? As it so happens, even Manhattanites living the kind of charmed existence familiar to fans of Gossip Girl are not immune to tragedy. There's a terrible affliction plaguing prep schools far and wide (from the Upper East Side to, um, the Upper West Side): “Harvard drought." This year -- for the first time ever -- not a single student from the elite Dalton School was admitted to Harvard.

It's no Darfur, but you wouldn't know it by the way some of these parents are acting. They are unhappy indeed.

At Dalton’s graduation earlier this month, one mom was heard muttering, "I won’t send my grandchildren here, that’s for sure."

Oh, snap.

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This past Friday the front page of the New York Post, America's paper of record, was given over to a picture of a naked man strolling about Midtown. Naturally, he went to Yale. Today the paper caught up with "curly-haired hipster" Josh Drimmer and exchanged a few words with him from his comfy new Bellevue digs.

Juicy details are few and far between. A freshman dorm-mate reports,  "He would eat scraps of food people left around for a couple of hours." He was a double major in English and theater studies, like seemingly everyone else at Yale. He was not, however, a member of "the Pundits" -- the secretive anti-secret-society secret society -- which is too bad because this sounds like it would have been a huge coup for them.

Also, here's his blog, which isn't as weird as one would hope. Dude really likes Fleetwood Mac, apparently.

Anyone know anything else?

Lastly, here is a video which Gothamist is reasonably sure stars none other than Drimmer "bopping around Time Square," as the Post put it.