We heard a while back that Tom Green was coming to Penn to perform at SPEC and Mask and Wig’s ComFest last night. You can read about the actual event in today’s DP – but we’re more interested in hearing about Tom’s night after the show. Word is the comedian got his drink on with the Mask and Wig kids at Blarney post-show before heading to an off campus after-party where we hear Tom enjoyed some Green (see what we did there?). Later on he was spotted at Philly Diner where tipster Christian Lunoe snagged this pic. Yeah, we know it’s not the best camera work around…would you buy that the blurriness symbolizes his state of mind? No? Send in more photos if you got ‘em!
We’ve just received word that Seth Meyers, current head writer of Saturday Night Live, will be this year’s spring SPEC Connaissance Speaker. According to a SPEC press release, Seth “will discuss his experiences as an actor and comedian” March 18th at 8 p.m., in Irvine Auditorium. It’s no live Weekend Update, but it sure beats anotherboringpolitician.
Tickets will be $5.00 for PennCard holders and will be available on Locust Walk, beginning March 1.
We’ve just received a rush of photos to kickstart the great Fling performer hunt, so here they are. The first is an “I” outside Skulls, sent in by Matthew Sternberg. After the jump, two “D’s,” a “C,” a “K,” and “I” and a “U.”
Okay, so we were just getting geared up to start this whole alphabet soup hunt, when we received this. Tipsters tell us the Penn TV station, UTV13, aired this vaguely official-looking “Kid Rock IS Coming, Fling 2010″ advertisement last night, with a SPEC watermark and all. Our SPEC friends say it’s not legit, (a UTV13 prank?) but we’re not sure. Perhaps there’s some SPEC/UTV13 rivalry we don’t know about? That could definitely be juicy. Anyway, we’ll keep you updated.
It's going to be like an Easter egg hunt, but better.
If you haven’t heard yet, SPEC wants to send you on a wild goose chase of sorts to announce the first Spring Fling performer. So grab your camera phones and make it to that early morning class.
Here’s the fool-proof rundown:
Banners spelling out the performer’s name will be scattered across campus from roughly 10 a.m. to noon.
If you spot a banner, send a photo of it to tips@underthebutton.com. If you’re the first person to snap a shot of that letter, we’ll post the picture.
Aside from a UTB shoutout, our friends over at SPEC will give you a free wristband with floor access to the concert.
If you don’t have a BlackBerry/iPhone, you probably won’t win. But you can still guess who the performer is in the comments.
Sometimes, using regular sentences can just be so boring. That’s why all you need to find out the first Fling artist is letters!
This Monday, all throughout the day, letters in the first artist’s name will be scattered around campus. They can be on a banner, chalked on somewhere, or made out of a pile of SPEC kids (we hope)– pretty much anywhere that letters weren’t already present.
As soon as you spot one, hurry and hit us up at tips@underthebutton.com, because apparently SPEC thinks we’re good spellers (wi duno wot their talkin abawt). We’ll post the letters you find throughout the day until the whole name is revealed.
As if real-life Boggle wasn’t cool enough, you can also win prizes! The first tipster to send in a picture of each letter wins a free wristband for floor access to the concert. But before you ask, no- you can’t have the country of origin.
Our friends at SPEC have announced another feast fest. On Friday from 11-3 in Houston Hall SPEC will be hosting a party in honor of our favorite love-to-hate-it holiday and they’re calling it (surprise!) Love Fest. There are promises of candy and rootbeer floats, so what better way for a single and lonely V-Day hater to eat his or her feelings than with free treats? And if you’re half of a happy couple, don’t you dare go taking the last cupcake, provided by the Buttercream cupcake truck.
Still haven’t gotten your t-shirt designing fix? Let loose that creative juice for a second round of graphic contests, this time for Fling. This competition actually looks pretty awesome, as in you can win $100 and two floor passes for the concert. They apparently prefer “sweet, flashy designs;” just please don’t use the colors on their flyer or our eyes may bleed. Still not convinced to enter? Just think- you’ll have your design puked on worn by the entire school! Talk about fast track to fame!
Submissions are due by February 22 to springfling@specevents.net in .tiff, .jpeg or 300+ dpi format (we know, you had your hearts set on .gif, but it’ll be okay). Designs also can’t reference drugs or drinking, because we’re classy.
Remember that “M.U.S.I.C. for Your Mind” crew that put on the actually kind of awesome Girl Talk show?
Apparently they’re at it again– sorta. MUSIC FYM has started hardcore promoting an upcoming Lupe Fiasco concert in conjunction with (the definitely not random) SPEC, Pi Kapp, and Kappa Sig. The event’s Facebook group has like 800 people in it already.
Lupe coming here to actually perform? Sweet! Let’s all go right now and buy tickets and mark it in our calendars and– wait. There’s not actually a date yet. You can only reserve your tickets in a Google spreadsheet. And they don’t have an opener. Weeelll, MUSIC FYM, you better not be getting our hopes up– we’re trying to get our Superstar on as soon as possible.
Neither SPEC nor Mask and Wig are strangers to UTB, so we were totally stoked to hear that they were collaborating on an upcoming event. On February 10th the Zellerbach theater will host the Comedy Festival, or if you totes abbrev then “ComFest” (not to be confused with SPEC’s trillionotherfests).
Comedy groups from other schools will perform alongside Mask & Wig, who will be doing several acts with the special guest host. Who goes best with StudGov powerhouse and gender-bending funnymen, you ask? Tom Green, obviously! Remember him? The one that always made you a little more than uncomfortable? Yeah.
SPEC and Wig, we’re assuming our invitation to participate in this gathering of funny people got lost in the mail. Just let us know when we go on.
Tickets go on sale on the Walk Feb 1st: $10 general admission and a special $8 for Feb Clubbing seniors. Check the full lineup and some Tom Green discomfort love after the jump.
Stop by Houston Hall (Wynn Commons) from 11:00 a.m. (a little bit before right now) to 3 p.m. for SPEC Special Event’s Annual Winterfest. Hub Bub is handing out free coffee and hot chocolate, there’s a synthetic ice skating rink with skates available to rent (we’ve received word from a Street ed on the ground that it “looks dumb”), and s’mores.
This is the perfect opportunity to impress the girl of your dreams by landing a triple axle and then roasting her the perfect golden-brown marshmallow, so stop by. And wear a flame retardant leotard so that you can go from rink to fire with limited wardrobe interference.
Just kidding! Did we scare you just like that great viral marketing campaign Penn Student Government enacted yesterday? Well, even if you didn’t care were too busy to go tonight, we dropped by the State of the School for the free food. They didn’t answer the button question we may or may not have posted on the town hall website, but they promised to have all questions answered in the next few weeks online. SPEC continued its love for fests by announcing plans for Love Fest next semester. NEC commented on our amazing coverage of the freshman elections. SAC cheered and the freshman class board rapped (NSOver Again? NSO there!). The UA reminded us to vote for the referendum and announced that starting next week, Mark’s Café will be open until 2 a.m. seven days a week with the late-night menu additions of hot dogs and “fiddlestix.” If they’re anything like this, we’re in. If they’re not, we’re in. Get the Van Party started!
A tipster sent us this photo of a random sign outside Houston. A random sign outside Houston is totally how they would cancel Fling, so we rushed to our computers and went to wtfpenn.net to find…a list of all the great things our student government has done for us? This one’s going viral, you guys!
“Think Penn Student Government Does Nothing For You?” it asks. “Not really,” we reply to our computer screens, “they provide services like Fling and Hey Day. Of course they do things.” Then the website makes us look SO DUMB by telling us how the different branches of student government provide services for us like Fling and Hey Day.
At the end it says we should go to the State of the School tomorrow night at 6 p.m. in College Hall. If we were to guess what the State of the School is from this website, it is a campus full of unappreciative dorks who don’t recognize all the great, wonderful, fun things its awesome student government does for it. Cannot WAIT.
Here’s something fun, though: if you accidentally go to wtfpenn.com, you get redirected to sony.com. Oh cool, look at all the hip, versatile electronics that cater to our on-the-go lifestyle!
Who likes free movies? When was the last time you went to a free movie? For us it was basically a free movie FESTIVAL over Thanksgiving break in our family room at home. Maybe you haven’t heard of DVDs but they’re kind of changing how we watch movies. Free movies all the time! (Except for the price of the DVDs! A cost that is often expensive! Hey, whatever!)
Wait, you already know about DVDs? And you’re saying that when you go to a free movie you want to leave your house and you want popcorn and you want to see Michael Cera in person? Then maybe this free movie is more up your alley. SPEC Film is hosting a free screening of Youth In Revolt at The Bridge tomorrow night at 7:30!
Plus, there’s a Q&A session afterwards with Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday and the C.D. Payne, the author of the book that is now the major motion picture in question. Which one of you guys is going to ask Mr. Cera the obligatory Arrested Development Movie question? Work that out amongst yourselves because one of you really should ask him.
You can pick up your tickets in the Office of Student Life or click here to print them out. Seating is first come, first served. As long as you show up early, you’ll probably have a better chance of getting a seat at The Bridge than in our family room. (Don’t even THINK about getting a spot on the couch if the whole family’s watching.)
