So instead of tackling something meaningful, such as S.C.'s high unemployment rate, healthcare for everyone, or even the shitastic education system, they have decided to file a piece of legislation about pants below your ass. seriously, given the state of the economy, what the hell is the point of legislating dress codes ( Read more... )

Everyone always wonders what life is all about. Well, I think I have the answer. life is about how people remember you when your gone. It is about the impact that you leave on your community, your family, the people who did and did not know you. Last week, the journalism field lost a great reporter, The city of North Charleston lost a model citizen ( Read more... )

I'm all for musical freedom but i'm fucking sick of Charleston radio stations that play awesome music going away. First the damn pop fuckers took The WAVE from us. Now the fucking christans are taking the DRIVE!!!! For fuck sake, you people have your damn churches and two other radio stations that play shitty music already. Leave the stations for ( Read more... )

My last viewpoints column ran today. It is a sad at for me, but it is also a decision that I knew I needed to make in order to not screw the newspaper over, or stress myself out. It was not fair the staff or other writers for the section to promise a weekly column and not be able to deliver. Kimi, have fun and know senior semester may force you to ( Read more... )

senior semester is ridiculous. they expect me to drive all over town using MY gas. they question every part of my stories and then they drag their feet looking at stuff so i'm supposed to change me schedule. not happening. i'm in charleston to do a story for 532 and they're like ooh come back for monday because we have issues with your story. thats ( Read more... )

if scott calls me one more time within the next 33 minutes, i am going to strangle him. in the past hour he has called 4 times plus sent me a text message. i know he's my boss, but this is on the borderline of ridiculous. like no one i work for has ever called me that much in a week, much less an hour ( Read more... )

Everyone had that moment in their semester that defines it, and sets the tone for it. For me, it was the first week, when Sasha died. I remember the first song that I heard after I got the news, "Shadow of the Day" by Linkin Park. Even now, three months later, every time I hear this song i open my sun roof and windows and blare it. It is how I ( Read more... )

my best friend just got engaged after years of being a manwhore. yay!

It's not a real st. patricks day in columbia until one of your friends pisses herself in a very public place and has to be escorted back to your table by a waitress. i know it sounds very tucker maxish, but i am really not making this up.

so last night I watching flavor of love with kimi, kari and jeromy. This is what we do on monday nights from nine to 10. It's a very bonding, hillarious experience. It was last night until it got interrupted. So we were watching our show and elimination came on. Of course Rachel picked this time to come out and start screaming omg, look at me, look ( Read more... )