It ain't easy bein' white…
It ain't easy bein' brown
All this pressure to be bright…
I GOT KIDS ALL OVER TOWN!!!—

It ain't easy bein' white…
It ain't easy bein' brown
All this pressure to be bright…
I GOT KIDS ALL OVER TOWN!!!—

I love the shot, earlier, when Maeby asks if her outfit has been cleaned, of Tobias running away to change, accompanied by that harpsichord music. Amazing.

I love the shot, earlier, when Maeby asks if her outfit has been cleaned, of Tobias running away to change, accompanied by that harpsichord music. Amazing.

Yeah. I disagree with Noel. Buster talking through Franklin is my favorite "On the Next…" joke in the entire series.

Yeah. I disagree with Noel. Buster talking through Franklin is my favorite "On the Next…" joke in the entire series.

No Scotland, no Radiohead, no Rolling Stones, no Clash. 3 entries just on Pink Floyd's Animals. What a weird map. Maybe it's still a work in progress.

No Scotland, no Radiohead, no Rolling Stones, no Clash. 3 entries just on Pink Floyd's Animals. What a weird map. Maybe it's still a work in progress.

Alien Jesus: I don't see a deeply held grudge here at all. I see someone who went into this hoping it'd be good get more and more disillusioned by the episode (I'm with him in that regard). Sure, he doesn't mention the production, the direction or the acting. Are such things necessary to mention when the plot is this…

Alien Jesus: I don't see a deeply held grudge here at all. I see someone who went into this hoping it'd be good get more and more disillusioned by the episode (I'm with him in that regard). Sure, he doesn't mention the production, the direction or the acting. Are such things necessary to mention when the plot is this…

I've got a buddy who a few years ago crashed his perfectly normal car. In replacing it, he bought a 1973 Mercedes sedan, because it looked pimp. But the gas mileage was poor, so he bought a Vespa. He then crashed the Vespa (not his fault, but still), so he bought another Vespa. Then, for whatever reason, he bought a…

I've got a buddy who a few years ago crashed his perfectly normal car. In replacing it, he bought a 1973 Mercedes sedan, because it looked pimp. But the gas mileage was poor, so he bought a Vespa. He then crashed the Vespa (not his fault, but still), so he bought another Vespa. Then, for whatever reason, he bought a…

I always thought it was the first song on the list you can sing as a duet. There aren't as many of those—karaoke duet songs. Its like this one, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, and…I can't really think of anything else.

I always thought it was the first song on the list you can sing as a duet. There aren't as many of those—karaoke duet songs. Its like this one, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, and…I can't really think of anything else.

Sort of. Molina was from the town of Lorain, which is like 15 minutes away from the town of Oberlin, and they're both in the same county (Lorain County). He, like anyone from the town of Oberlin that can get in to the school, probably had free admission.

A guide to a few similar, but slightly different hipstery schools, based on the work made by their grads:

It's an all campus party put on in the student union (which has a dance club called the Sco) by the Sexual Information Center. Dancing and drinking, of course. But also demonstrations on safe sex—including on proper condom use, dental dam use, and consent. In fact, consent is the big theme of the whole thing. There's…

Also: Jason Molina of Magnolia Electric company and Songs: Ohia, Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, Ishmael Beah (who wrote the memoir A Long Way Gone about his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone that had a controversy around whethor or not he made some of it up) and Alex Blumberg,…

Agreed. That was most definitely not supposed to be the Sco (and pot brownies covered with Jello Shots? no way that would be allowed on that night, with it's dedication to Consent). The parties is made me think of was the many parties you mention in the houses around town. Was Poland a house while you were there?…

I went to Oberlin (Lena Dunham started there the year after I graduated). It's not just the prototypical white hipster college. It is the premiere white hipster college in the nation. More so than NYU or RISD or Evergreen because all of those schools are more about producing artists. Oberlin has some artists coming…