Charles Finch
Charles Finch
Recent Stories
Imagining attacks of Sept. 11 weeks later
Last Saturday, two more firemen were found in the rubble where the Twin Towers once stood. You could see the searchers fumbling with the bodies, putting them on stretchers, covering each of them with an oversized American flag. And everywhere around...
Remember these times
How do you encapsulate three years of Dubra, Broadway Liquor, the back booth at Kav's, and the rise and fall of the glowstick in one article? You can't, of course. My class, 2002, has been single-minded in its pursuit of drinking glory. When we could...
Life goes on, but 'College Years' are winding down
Let me dish about something of very little interest to anyone else for a minute. Do you remember the last season of "Saved by the Bell," before the college years, when they tried to phase in a younger class, when Zach's head was clearly elsewhere...
Imagine that you are the terrorist, prepared to kill, willing to die
Let me ask the reader -- sitting in a dining hall somewhere, 20 minutes until class, with a tray of half-eaten food -- to imagine himself in a position in which he will never be. Let him imagine that he is 15,000 feet above the ground, in a Boeing 767...
Bootie Cam beams on, but parties slow to start
There are a few major questions in my life. Here they are. Number 1: Why did I buy an Annie Lennox CD? I don't even remember doing this. I mean, did I go into Tower Records thinking, "Hmmm....maybe I'll get an Annie Lennox CD today" one day? Did that...
Carry yourself to hell in that $300 sheepskin coat
Not all of us here at Yale can spend our weekends cavorting with the Hilton sisters, drinking Cristal, and smoking Romeo y Julietas. Very few of us, actually. In fact, I would guess that pretty much all of us "sit around" with our friends' sisters...
I would trade my liver to watch the NCAAs
I have a friend -- let's call her Maude -- who is in an almost perpetual state of disbelief at my ability to "waste" my weekends watching sports (with the exception of America's greatest opus, "Survivor"). Maude will say something to me every once in a...
The womb the surgeon general warned you about
Choose Your Own Adventure-- Me: How was your vacation? Someone: Great I was in (St. Martin's/Barbados/Prague). Me: [Drilling a hole in my head] That must have been dope. Someone: Yeah! (I wish I wasn't back/I'm glad to be back.) Me: [Hanging...
A late night of vomit on Old Campus
Vomiting plays well in your average Hollywood or Dollywood. Witness Adam Sandler, "The Exorcist," and Calista Flockhart's fainting-from-exhaustion episodes on the set of "Ally McBeal." But it's a little less popular in New Haven, where it's more often...
Just say no to Yale entrepreneurs
David Pozen '02 recently told the Yale Daily News: "My dad was saying he felt like he had been at a Vietnam protest rally .... this may be the cause to undertake and galvanize students and alumni in the way bigger national issues did." What could a...