It's hard to be snarky and sarcastic when Vandy life is so idyllic. (If Maryland DOES football and crab cakes, then I would venture to say that Versus DOES snark and sarcasm. Yes, "Wedding Crashers" reference. No, snark is not a real word.) But really! A quick trip to Weather.com informs me that it will be 75 and sunny every day this week, including Saturday, which will provide us some nice weather while we take down those clowns from Auburn. If you haven't heard, we're kicking ass this year. Yet another reason to rejoice. And, in other news, The Slant's heart, which was previously grinch-like and three sizes too small, has seemed to swell to accept all Vandy publications as equals. Would you look at that.

Yeah, Sister Hazel's lead singer Ken Block had laryngitis; no, it didn't really sound like Sister Hazel at all. You can't blame the guy for having the black lung, and he gave as valiant an effort as I've ever seen to make "Your Winter" sound as normal as possible.

And yes, midterms are already upon us, forcing us inside when we'd prefer to be lounging on the lawn, sitting on the deck of SatCo, chanting frat anthems on Kensington Avenue on Thursday afternoons. But as you curse your English teacher for demanding you read Shakespeare at unthinkable speeds, or your mechanical engineering professor for making you ... do things with numbers and shapes (what is it that you guys do anyway?) I bid you to remember all that is going well in the Vandy world. This too shall pass. In the meantime, we interviewed Death Cab for Cutie. Check that out.

Reading is good; let's start the story now.

Darcy Newell

From "Billy Madison." Duh.