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Hypothetical: what if your girl had a street sperm baby?

Okay, so let’s say your girlfriend is walking down the street and it’s a pretty nice day out. She’s just walking down Bloor and she sees, out of the corner of her eye, a little bit of sperm. Not like an excessive amount but, like, it’s visible to the naked ...

Ten reasons I’m NOT baby

Chances are, you’re not baby either People these days throw around the termphrase “I’m baby” as a joke. It is not a joke. If you are twenty years old, you cannot claim, “I’m baby.” You cannot possibly have a successful rap career if you are, for example, “da baby.” I ...

Ten things my co-worker Steven thinks about babies

1. “Ewwwww.”  2. “They’re stupid nasty stinky poo-poo heads.”  3. “Unpopular opinion, but I think their second album was better than their first.”  4. “You know that movie Baby Boss? Has the second one come out yet?”  5. “Babies are so stupid; they can’t even fucking read.”  6. “I saw ...

Autobiography of a food baby

My conception was far from romantic. It began at 7:30 on a Friday night, under a flag that was once draped over Queen Victoria’s casket. Helen, my mother, was alone at the foot of a table with a plate of roast chicken, paired with a bowl of miso soup with enough sodium for ...

Five celebrities you didn’t know were babies before they were famous

1. Nicholas Cage  This star of National Treasure: Book of Secrets has a big secret himself: he used to be his mother’s national treasure, as before he was famous, he was at one point, a baby.  2. Zooey Deschanel  Can you even imagine Zooey Deschanel without bangs? Did you watch ...

I tried to get baby flathead, where am I now?

I’m writing this from an Arkansas prison

Baby smell

You hold the squishy fleshy baby in your hands. Your nose dips into the fuzz of their scalp. You inhale deeply. Baby Smell™ fills your nostrils and binds to your serotonin receptors, flooding you with emotions. But what is Baby Smell™? What are the components of this exudation, the most ...

Baby talk: an interview with my one-year-old nephew

Baby babbles in shocking interview

The Strand sits down with: the Little Lords of campus

Their woes, delights, and what it is they want most for their birthdays! No doubt, if you’ve spent any time on campus you are at the very least somewhat familiar with the Little Lords. Campus’ Little Lords, the delightful little sprites who flounce about campus feasting on bonbons, taking tea, ...

Five ways to improve your wiping technique

We wipe. More often than not we wipe and wipe. Hell, sometimes we wipe and wipe and wipe. This is how we live. But are we living our best life? Rhetorical question, dear reader. Rhetorical question. Start living your best life today! And wipe that frown upside down with these ...