ShutterButton: Traveling Home

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was covered in snow on Tuesday. Here’s to hoping none of you had too much trouble going home for the break!

ShutterButton: Turkey Butts

Smoked turkey butts? How can you resist?

Smoked turkey butts? How can you resist?

ShutterButton: Italian Market

A man admires the variety of cheeses in a shop in the Philadelphia Italian Market.

A man admires the variety of meats and cheeses in a shop in the Philadelphia Italian Market.

ShutterButton: Virginia The Pug

We. Love. Dogs. on Under the Button.

ShutterButton: Fine Arts Thesis

College senior Andrew Shults poses with his Fine Arts thesis project. The thesis preview exhibition — which took place in the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery — closed yesterday. We can only imagine what these fine Penn artists have up their sleeves for next semester’s exhibition!

In Case You Missed It: The One In Which Dogs Are Better Than People

Check out this amazing footage of a dog, despite the danger, helping out one of its kind…

… and compare it to this footage from June 2008, in which onlookers do nothing to help the 78 year old victim after a horrible hit-and-run incident.

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In Case You Missed It: Celebrities Sing And Dance About Prop 8

A new Funny or Die video called “Prop 8 - The Musical” features celebrities like Jack Black (as Jesus Christ), Neil Patrick Harris, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Margaret Cho, and others. Check it out below!

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ShutterButton: Condiments

Captured at the Philadelphia Marathon Convention

Captured at the Philadelphia Marathon Convention.

ShutterButton: Book Feet

Reading in the Penn Bookstore.

Reading in the Penn Bookstore.

In Case You Missed It: Anderson Cooper Vs. Michael Phelps

The Anderson Cooper lovefest continues…


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ShutterButton: 15th Annual Philadelphia Marathon

Bright and early Sunday morning, 18,000 athletes congregated for the 15th annual Philadelphia Marathon.

Many more photos after the jump.

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ShutterButton: Rock It

College senior Noah Keil and College sophomore Charles Lynch rock out at the Mask and Wig Kick Off Bash, November 21, 2008.

ShutterButton: When I Grow Up…

Seen growing on the corner of 40th and Walnut.

Seen growing on the corner of 40th and Walnut.

ShutterButton: Do You Put Out?

On November 20, 2008, members of Relay for Life at Penn hold The Great American Smokeout, an event to help people quit smoking.

There Are Other Blogs Out There Too, You Know: London Bananas

This is part two of an ongoing series to introduce you procrastinators to the wonderful world of the blogosphere, one blog at a time.

This one is quite simple: Bananas + London = London Bananas.

The following is the description of the blog from the blogger him/herself, found in the About section of the website:

I have lived in London, UK for about a year. When I arrived I noticed something straight away: there’s a lot of banana skins around.

I see them everywhere. They’re languishing on doorsteps, hanging out in the middle of the road, dangling off street signs, peeking out of piles of garbage, reclining in the middle of the sidewalk, riding the bus for free. A great number of them are bright yellow as if they’re fresh and have just been dropped, although they appear in all states of decay. I don’t know how or why they caught my attention, but within a week of being in London I couldn’t get my mind off these banana skins. Where were they coming from? Who was eating all these bananas and leaving the skins around? Why was it always bananas I was seeing, and not, say, oranges? Was it a sign? Was there something sinister going on? Apparently these little hazards were a covert operation going completely unnoticed; everyone I asked about it said that they had never noticed anything of the sort and looked at me as if I was nuts.

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