<![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I'm assuming Matt Herges and Todd Hollandsworth will be the honorary bartenders at the Tumble Inn for the after party. And please, stay away from Jamar Smith, it's slick out there tonight.
/realizes it's the one year anniversary of crash


Skillet

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will you sign the copy I stole from the library?

Dread

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I miss Roger Ebert

Fawn Liebowitz

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @RonZookonRedBull:
It may be well-endowed, but it's also fake.

stealofthedraft

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> i literally just went to the union bookstore for the first in my life (im a junior at the u of i) at 1pm today to get a textbook. i even saw your book as i was leaving... guess i just missed out on meeting my hero!

yung_gunnas

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> i literally just went to that lameass union bookstore to buy a textbook for the first time in my life (im a junior at the u of i) @ 1pm today and saw your book, guess I just missed out on meeting my hero!

yung_gunnas

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Greg Lindsay: Or creating a publishing empire of naked women. God bless Hef.

I heard he endowed a journalism scholarship at U of I... a WELL-endowed scholarship.

RonZookonRedBull

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> CPA review....
or
Leitch...

CPA review...
or
Leitch...

Hmmmm.

TheLou-Do

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @blackheartededitor: A: No Country for Old Men

Q: What the U of I's female population will proclaim their dorm rooms when they see the attendees descending on the bookstore

kayceebk

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Johnny Blackshoe: You should have trekked down to...Nolan? (maybe,memory hazy, haven't been back since '98) where there were inexplicable couches in the bathrooms. At UW-Madison, where I profess, such amenities are only found in the ritzy University Club.

jupiter_jim

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Who picked 4 PM for the time of this shindig? Since I'm not going to be able to get away from work in time, this just means I'm headed to Mattoon on Saturday.

The General

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @blackheartededitor: Maybe Will can read some of his Barbaro/Fuck Lion fan fiction.

Prada James

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Needs more Juice.

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will there be any used copies already hilighted for sale?

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @diggity: +1.

The Diesel

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Lady Andrea: I always preferred eating mushrooms and going to Allerton Park, but that sounds fun too.

Fornelli

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @whodatmaninablacksedan: Dam hippies and their long hair. No escape, I tell ya.

The Diesel

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Johnny Blackshoe: why couldn't Nibbles have eaten that post?

Beer-Fart

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I'm assuming Michael Jordan and an assortment of coeds will be in full attendance.

SA

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Stev D: Either that or the merits of a wardrobe replete with black t-shirts.

Beer-Fart

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> it'd be cooler if it were roger l. simon.

iantenna

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Johnny Blackshoe: Carl Monday is mortified.

diddly

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> You think the Gawker media empire would shell out for a better rental car than the turquoise Chevette.

diggity

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Who is Roger Simon?

Trenton Makes The World Takes

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Whatever you do Will, your next book should not be about the Ellen James Society. It won't end well.

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @The Diesel: There aren't 4,502 girls at the University of Illinois.

whodatmaninablacksedan

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Raskolnikov: "Has the Daily Illini lost its focus as a college newspaper now that famed Internet star and former Daily Illini deity Will Leitch is reading at the college bookstore?"

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @LouVuittonDon: The basement bathroom in the English building may not be the most glorious, but I used to jerk off in there during late night study sessions...I guess this would be a cool story if I were having sex with women and not myself.

Johnny Blackshoe

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Al_Czerviks_Ride: You fool! It's Eek! The Cat. Hands down.

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Just don't accept any rides from Jamar Smith while you're there.

econdave

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> At least Illinois alumni can read...

stealofthedraft

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Marth:@Dieter: How we are Hungry

Dieter

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Dibs on the pale midwestern chick wearing her hair in a poofy scrunchy and white-washed jeans. Yeah, all 4,502 of em.

The Diesel

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Gourmet Spud: Wait...What is the what?

/Struggling to make "You Shall Know Our Velocity" joke, and choosing to go to class instead.

Dieter

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> How many times will you breach the subject of young Eric Gordon?

whodatmaninablacksedan

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> You're sitting in class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, drawing doodles of Ron Zook on the water skis...

It's not that big of a deal, something like 8 percent of kids do it.

stealofthedraft

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Can you pull a miracle and make that basketball team more exciting while you are there?

The Diesel

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will there be a bike rack where undergrads can chain their Razor scooters?

Jefferson Short Bus

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Stev D: There is no discussion- its Spongbob Squarepants

Al Czerviks Ride

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will most of the evening be spent discussing which animated tv shows are underappreciated?

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will is proof that the University of Illinois' journalism program prepares you for a successful career making dick jokes.

Greg Lindsay

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will there be free pizza? I have a very rigid no-campus-events-unless-there's-free-pizza policy.

MDT

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @LouVuittonDon:

C'mon, man! Now everyone's going to be using it!

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @LouVuittonDon: that's...good to know.

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Gourmet Spud: I wouldn't count on Beth showing up.

Proverbial

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Kevin Hart will be there on a recruiting visit.

lisa

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I heard the party's gonna take place at a run down house off campus, everyone pays $10 to get in except the hot underclassmen, and he's gonna kick everyone out after an hour unless you know one of the older commenters.

Sh!tShow

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Michael David Smith will also report on the Daily Illini's report.

Raskolnikov

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Seabass: You could still get one, I'm sure.

There may be burn marks and brown streaks, but...

Rock You Like An Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Didn't anyone tell Will that you can't go home again?

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Gourmet Spud: Digger Phelps can answer that for you.

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Hey, will you buy me an Eric Gordon jersey from the bookstore? Ohh....wait....

Seabass

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> It's been awhile since I've been to my old university's bookstore. Tell me, have there been any significant advances in highlighter technology?

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Lana: How we doing?
Joel: Looks like University of Illinois!


Average-Joe

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Civil Negligence: any band showing up to one of these would likely be called "Fear of Women"

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> A sugary slice of Garcia's awaits. Haven't been back since graduation in '93 and no plans to return.

AusKosh

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Second floor of the Illini Union Bookstore - cleanest, most luxurious shitter on campus, if not the universe.

LouVuittonDon

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will the urban dance team be there, or the local college tribute band 'Fears for Tears'?

Civil Negligence

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @heyzeus:

I'll just pretend I read it and BS the essay.

/also channeling inner college student

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Gourmet Spud: A: One hundred years of solitude.
Q: What can the attendees expect from their collective sex lives?

blackheartededitor

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Matt_T: Let's just hope there isn't a Kent State situation tonight.

Do you know how hard it is having emo bangs at a Midwestern college?

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> It's just like when Roger Ebert comes back for a book reading, except the catering costs 95% less.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Why would you compare yourself to a blowhard fat film critic with no larynx?

The Teufel Shuffle

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will you be streaking through the quad past the gymnasium after the party?

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> The after party is sitting around someone's old station wagon listening to the truckers on the CB.
Oh yeah, and drinking...


Al Czerviks Ride

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> A: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

Q: What will it take to reduce the sausage-quotient at the reading to under 96%?

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will there be a lion riding a horse? No? Not interested.

blackheartededitor

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @DumpsterDining: You can read it and then sell it back for pennies on the dollar - until the second edition is published

metsarethe...

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> @Lady Andrea: Keg-in-a-field.

Carlton_Whitfield

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Are there any good burrito places nearby?

Marth

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Will Bill Murray be there?

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I wouldn't be expecting Roger Ebert to be doing any readings at the bookstore in the near future.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Afterwards, Will will be on the quad with an acoustic guitar and a pocketful of memories in the hopes of tricking some dumb broad into thinking he's deep.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Yeah, but what is happening for the after-party in Champaign? Are they going down to the dump to shoot rats?

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> I'll just get the Cliff's notes
/channeling inner college student

heyzeus

]]> <![CDATA[A Visit Back To The Old Campus]]> Since it's a college book store, one can only assume the cost to buy the book just went up 500% over retail?

DumpsterDining

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