O’Hagan Blades
O’Hagan Blades
Recent Stories
Love ate me
Iceland doesn’t exist. Trust me, I’ve been there. It’s like this surreal outside-the-real-world land — what a professor might call a “liminal space” but what I call a “magical place” — where rocks are naturally cubic, whales play in the harbor, and everybody looks like Jude Law. Jude Law with a chunky sweater, skinny jeans and a bright red house.
Spring sprouts surprises
College is a peculiarly timeless place.
Blades: The beast is back, Amy get your gun
In a January article, I may have falsely implied that I, O’Hagan Blades, was brutally savaged and hungrily eaten by the mysterious “Beast” that lives in the walls of my house. This is not true. I am still very much alive most days of the week. Unfortunately, as I discovered all too well last Monday, so is the Beast.
Blades: Study harder, better, faster, stronger
Candy necklaces are key study tools. They’ve got sugar, they’re happy and if you eat a bead every hour, you can keep track of time.
Blades: When I’m 104
I have a really awesome job. For the past two years, I have driven two high school girls from school to ballet practice at least twice a week.
Blades: Horses + megafauna = hugely cool
Last winter holidays, a friend from Yale went home to South Carolina with me and, upon opening the closet in my childhood room, found it wallpapered floor-to-ceiling and side-to-side with posters and pictures of horses. There was an awkward silence.
Backstage: Eli Clark '07
Meet Eli Clark ’07, playwright, web star, shish kebab...
Blades: The fill-in-the-blank Game
When I was two years old, my preschool teacher was famous in my hometown for potty-training every kid in the class by the end of the year. How’d she do it? She put us on teams and made defecating “like a big girl” a game of intense competition. It worked because everyone loves rivalry: Cowboys v. Indians, Backstreet Boys v. N’Sync, Roe v. Wade, me v. Little Sally Sue in the after-lunch rush to the privy.
Backstage: Nick Barton '08
Backstage: Nick Barton '08
Blades: War on Terror v. War on Humor
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Barack Obama.