The Elm City Connectors

(Note: MoMilli and I have been talking over a potential New Haven mixtape tentatively titled "The Elm City Connectors")

[Current status - Bergman Senior]
New Haven mixtape
Be takin' quick shape
Tracks so aggressive,
Bitches gonna scream "rape!"
But wait, we all homosape,
Only evolution be revolution
Way we run the game
Ain't no mo' prostitution

Potential Song 1:

[Potential Verse 1 - MoMilli]
Biggie likes gats & stuff
Mo Milli like Gatz & scruff
Mo like mo' boys to be well-bred and read and stuff
Free curling Jewfros while they're free with free-associative thoughts on the Euthryphro
Shitty riff, though
I like mines off the cuff with a quip
When he whip out his ego trip
We not rippin' corners, we rippin' the whole block with a community redev to a new downtown mall strip
Redevelop B-way to make way for a AmAppy
The fuck you thinkin', takin' out scrappy b-men (Jason!) to scrap together multinationals (Urban!)
Strappy sandals are so oh-sev
We so-so def, social debs, I mean devs
Social deviants, we social climbin' until the cap-and-trade bubble burst
(etc.)

[Potential Verse 2 - MoMilli]
So we like up at the Courtyard
Post-game crash hard
Fresh on withdrawal with my cash card
Suddenly freaked is me
Some dude in 523 is getting Judasy on his Game roomies
Is this Marriott gonna get feisty? Nicely...
Nice ice bucket in the room next door, loud sounds
Girl cracks door open, looks around
Shuts it again, then they come out of there with a group of three
"You okay-yo with the yayo?"
They like yeah, yo
Me say "nay-yo"
Naysayers on the elevator ruminators
"Should we turn in them in soon?" they ask amongst themselves
"Oh, shit, " my girl K.V. and me mumble, it's 7:12
We gonna be late for New Moon
Should've waited for the 10:20 showing instead of something else so soon

A Dark Day

The Doodle is no more. I don't know where I will get my butter fix next time I'm in New Haven. The place shall be missed dearly. But maybe there is hope if some wealthy alumni (like Al) step in and save the day...

By complete coincidence I wore my Doodle t-shirt today.

Update: New York Times piece on the Doodle.

What Hath Modernity Wrought?

January 20. A date which will live in infamy.


That was the day that our New Haven Coliseum was destroyed in a vicious act of war that put our sacred freedoms under attack. These explosives hate freedom. Nothing makes them happier than the idea of a mid-sized American city that doesn't have a downtown sports-entertainment arena. But we will defeat these explosives in any way necessary. It will be an epic struggle of good vs. evil, but we will win. A beacon of hope rises from the rubble.

The Great Hamburger Debate

The famed Louis' Lunch (no ketchup!) from New Haven faces off against some punks from Athens, Texas.

“I don’t even think Texas has been around as long as this place has been serving hamburgers,” said David Ellner, 39, an East Haven native who has gobbled more burgers than he can count at Louis’. “No way were they first. No way should we let them take this away from us.”