Those alumni expecting to sneak on campus via their Ram Pass for Friday morning’s “private event” are sadly mistaken.
This just in from the Fordham office of Alumni Relations:
Please Note: Due to a private event on Friday, 6 March 2009, the RamPass will not allow access to the Rose Hill Campus from
Midnight until 10 a.m.
So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
-Pete
Filed under: Strange Days | Tags: Armageddon, Bono, Clandestine Spectacles, Good Bye Harry, The Rock, u2
With all this U2 ruckus sweeping the nation, it’s a good thing there are still a few brave souls out there not totally infatuated with the appearance of Ireland’s latest comedy-rock band on Eddie’s Parade this Friday.
The Rock
Our lonely, little, insignificant blue sphere is but a grain of sand in a haystack, a needle along the seashore of the universe. Yet it is ours. It is our rock! Worthy of love and life and defense, ’til death do us part. It is the very rock where our forefathers tilled the soil to make grain. And it is the rock unto which the rock made famous by the Pilgrims lay.
No matter the obstacle, we will prevail. Our way of life, blessed by the one, true, holy and apostolic creator, will be preserved. Might will make right and from the fiery depths of Hell to the stoniest heights of Brim no elemental force shall subject its will before answering to our every beck and call. Our planet shall not perish from this Earth! We will not allow our livelihood to follow the path oft’ taken — that of the Dodo and Tyrannosaur that have gone before.
No.
Not long ago, and far more recent than the Four Score and Seven Years of lore, our very existence faced a threat that was so insurmountable not even the great and magnanimous Bono, clad in the clandestine canary-coloured spectacles of the scripture, and to whom we will prostrate ourselves on Friday, could stand in its path. (more…)
Filed under: Edits, News | Tags: Bono, Capitalism, Casual Encounters, Extortion, Fordham ID Services, Tickets, Wimpy
A little extortion anyone?
“Don’t have a Fordham ID? Don’t worry.” It’ll only cost you 50 bucks. Roughly $40,000 cheaper than what it cost me to get mine.
The Craigslist ad in full:
U2 is playing a secret concert this Friday (March 6) at Fordham University.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/the_scene/U2-to-Rock-Out-at-Fordham-.html&ei=WKitSeSCO8H7tgeQgqmMBg&usg=AFQjCNFGRu6Twnrw3HacfQKbBwjt-CKnmQThe concert is free for all Fordham students and faculty…. but you need a Fordham ID to get in.
Don’t have a Fordham ID? Don’t worry. Send me a response to this ad and I’ll let you know exactly how you can get one. If you send me a photo, I can get you a Fordham ID with your photo and your name for only $50.
This is not a scam, and you will not need to pay me anything until the Fordham ID is finished and in your hand to see. (I can’t go into more detail or else they’ll flag and remove my post!!! Talk to you via email.)
Craigslist: the best place to scalp ID’s and have other fun rendezvous this side of the inter-web.
To contact the mole at Fordham ID Services, email him at:
sale-5yghf-1058965753@craigslist.org
-Pete
Update
Something wrong at the Better Business Bureau? Fordham ID Services has slashed prices on its U2 “tickets” sale for this Friday’s “secret” show:
In related news, I just sold my ID to the highest bidder on Ebay, J. Wellington Wimpy, who will gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today. (more…)
Filed under: Arts, News | Tags: Bono, fordham, Fordham University, Good Morning America, Howl at the Moon, Secret Show, u2
The esteemed members of the Belmont community that run Howl at the Moon Bar & Grill will be having a drink up from 10AM to 3 PM after the U2 show. The drink up is $5, but if you wear a Howl at the Moon shirt to the show you get in free. Also, according to pure hearsay, all classes will be canceled on Friday. Holy God, please be responsible, y’all.
NO WAYYYYYY!
-Charles
U2 will be playing a full set for Fordham Students after they play their three songs for Good Morning America!!!
So for anyone willing to brush this whole U2 thing off, just cause they haven’t been good for a decade and they’d only be playing three songs from their new (shitty) album: there’s a hunk a shit to put in your pipe and smoke!
-Charles
Filed under: Arts, News, Strange Days | Tags: Bono, Fordham University, Good Morning America, u2
Update on Bono-gate.
Discussing the super-secret Fordham show
Fordham’s Lincoln Center newspaper of record, The Observor, reports:
“…U2 will indeed perform a concert at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus on March 6 at 8 a.m., according to a University source who commented on the condition of anonymity. An official announcement is expected to come sometime this Thursday…”
So 8AM kids, we’ll see you there.
Filed under: Arts, Edits, News | Tags: Bono, Booze, fordham, Good Morning America, lame publicity stunts
Well if the following is true, and it’s purported to be so by America’s oldest continuously published newspaper, then you know what I’m doing Thursday night: Total Georgie Annihilation.
Blackout Thursday!!
Professors have reportedly been told by the administration to cancel morning classes “for security reasons.” The band is expected to play at Fordham after appearing on “Good Morning America.”
Thanks Daddy Mac, I’ll add a third night to my weekend any way I can get it.
All in the name of “Fordham 2016: The Dream That Never Got Off The Ground.” Man, now that the words out that Fordham is the type of school where U2 plays suprise gigs for Good Morning, America, I’m sure applications will shoot through the roof.
Look out Notre Dame, here we come. We got Bono!
-Pete
P.S. Oh, and not to toot our own horn or anything, but:
Fordham’s newspaper, The Paper, has also confirmed the news, noting the band will play on the steps of the university’s famous Keating Hall.
That’s right. The fine folks at the Consequence of Sound know where the best place on the internet is to get the latest Fordham news and gossip (and a healthy dosage of opinion) — right here at the paper.
Stay tuned for the latest updates, as we continue to break: “Bono at the Gates: The Latest Publicity Stunt by the Attention Grabbing Whores Who Run This School Surprise Concert Venue.”
Filed under: Arts, Edits, News | Tags: biggest piece of shit, Bono, fordham, Get on your boots, No Line on the Horizon, Strange Days, u2
They said it couldn’t be done, but we showed them. With a few hushed words to the man upstairs via noted theologian Fr. Joseph McShane, our beloved Edward’s Parade will host the hottest Radiohead cover band from their side of the Prime Meridian. Verified by the paper’s “deep throat” at Interscope Records, the dad-rock troupe will take to whatever performance platform they will be taking to (read: probably Keating steps) succeeding their appearance on Good Morning, America. So get out your most obnoxious pair of sunglasses and dust off that old copy of Joshua Tree you have laying around Fordham, because next Friday we are all Bono.
Turns out that Bono and the Jesuits have been tight for ages. YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH
