Commumission, the People's Intermission

The Party Chair and Czar speak
By The Stanford Daily Staff
INTERMISSION| With only a precious few hours left in my tenure as Party Chair of the People's Commumission, I feel the cold of a long winter to come — a sparse existence in which there are no People's G5s to accomplish layout on, no People's golfclubs to swing aimlessly while marching about the office — a cold winter that is knocking .

Miss Tara Reid sobers up for interrogation

By Faris Mohiuddin
INTERMISSION| I sat down with Tara Reid earlier this week. By “I,” I mean “20-something college newspaper writers.” By “sat down with,” I mean “slumped over my desk with my cell phone’s loudspeaker on.

'Alone in the Dark' is Tara Reid's favorite place to 'work'

By Faris Mohiuddin
INTERMISSION| Apparently, this 90-minute train wreck was loosely based on a popular video game. Come on people, did we learn anything from “Tomb Raider,” “Resident Evil” or “The Village”?

Marx and Engels: Mandatory reading of State

By Dan Bentley
INTERMISSION| Reading it now, “The Communist Manifesto”, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, seems prescient. It predicted the rise of consumerism, federalism and intellectualism: aside from also forecasting a quick and permanent revolt of the working class, Marx and Engels were right on the money.

Faux Salon banned for liberating conformist hair

By Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| You will probably drive past it the first time. You might even have to make several U-turns to get back onto the right street (Old Town Campbell forks into two roads, keep going straight).

Listen or die! Commumission Mixtapes: For the Soviet in you

By Sam Tanzer
INTERMISSION| Since we brought you the batch of mixtapes themed “Love, Lust and Everything in Between,” Communism rose again, taking over Intermission in its path of mass music conformity.

The Stanford Theater: More old people than you can shake a stick at

By Chris Chan
INTERMISSION| As I near the end of my fourth year, I’ve heard many excuses for why students haven’t gone to the Stanford Theatre, that perennial mainstay of University Avenue with the old-fashioned marquee and flashy neon lights.

Cheesecake Factory just doesn't have same feel as Potato Factory

By Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| This is the first of a series of quickie undercover inspections brought to you by Commumission, The People’s Intermission.

Karl Marx and Papa Smurf: Separated at birth?

By Victor Fuste
INTERMISSION| Anyone with even the most humdrum childhood will recall sitting down in front of the television on those beautiful Saturday mornings and entering a land where miniature blue creatures spend their days frolicking around mushroom houses while doing their best to avoid always-dangerous cats.

It's French, it's choir boys: A priest smorgasboard

By Ricardo Gilb
INTERMISSION| Before anything else, here’s a little quiz. Which of the following lines comes from “Les Choristes,” the new French movie by Christophe Barratier, and which comes from Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”?

Banned! 'Rubber Factory' banned for being too subversive

By John Holgate
INTERMISSION| One day you come home with a new drug and it’s amazing how swiftly you slip from a responsive member of society to a wasted shell of your former self.

Like water, but better: Throw your own Communist Party

By John Holgate
INTERMISSION| Just because we live under a repressive regime that favors back-alley murder to political discourse doesn’t mean we can’t live it up a bit.

The Commies are coming: The State's guide to feeding your young

By Neil Mukophadhyay
INTERMISSION| In pursuit of dens of Bay Area Communism, I knew that the usual sources of information would be utterly useless to me.

With fellow members of the Proletariat, one is 'In Good Company'

By Nicole Beckley
INTERMISSION| For 52-year-old Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid), life is pretty good. He’s got the corner office, the nice house, the beautiful wife .

Censored by State: Point-Counterpoint

By Sam Tanzer
INTERMISSION| Ultimately, the Soviet Union Collapsed Under the Crushing Weight of its Own Economic Inefficiencies By COMRADE HERBERT DINKELSPIEL Whatever you might have to say about communism as an ethos, just look at the facts: ultimately, the Soviet Union collapsed under the crushing weight of its own economic inefficiencies.

Proletariat find Maples bleachers inadequate

By Darren Franich
INTERMISSION| The new Maples Pavilion, ladies and gents, the eighth wonder of the world!

Commumission: Controversial Opinions

By Darren Franich and Andrew Shah
INTERMISSION| This issue marks the departure of longtime editor-matriarch Tam Vo, who has guided this sub-publication for just about a full year.

From Russia with Love: Roxy Sass

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| If Communism is associated with a red flag proudly waving its star, hammer and sickle, then Communist-style sex would have to tie in red lace with whips of uniform size and texture.

We are ALL for the People: Long-term Party Dictator Tam Vo says farewell

By Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| "Get out!