Commentary, personal update, Stephen Glass costume

Apologies for the lack of Postsecret reviews; I've been busy with being the editor in chief of the student newspaper. I'm pleased about having that position even though there is a bit of an issue that will need to be resolved/dealt with (although it's not that I did anything wrong on my part). It seems like it would be best to not splash the details of that all over this publicly available (although probably minimally read) blog at this time, so I'll refrain. (If you can imagine a cross between the personality [more or less] of Jon Stewart and the appearance of Glenn Thrush, that is one of the characters involved in this drama, if you will.) 

Anyways, here is a little more commentary and pondering on something. I came across this one website, which is sort of maybe like a bit more intellectual version of Buzzfeed or Thought Catalog, and it's a repository of writing by college students. I looked into it a bit more to see if it would be worthwhile to get involved in, but then I found some things that made me reticent. Some people that formerly wrote for the website said that the website exploited their writers and only cared about quantity, not quality of the things the writers were expected to write and it became an unpleasant experience. I think it's more impressive to be editor in chief of the student newspaper anyways, rather than just "I write for this online website that people probably haven't heard of".. 

PS: I have been trying to convince someone I know to wear a Stephen Glass costume for Halloween. It would consist of clothing like this (remember to take your shoes off indoors and walk around in your socks, and of course don't forget to go around asking people "Are you mad at me?"): 

Interestingly enough, about 16 years later (I assume the previous picture was taken around 1998), here is Stephen Glass in a very similar outfit (old habits die hard, I guess. Although hopefully he did manage to kill his fabrication habit): 

And here we have Hayden Christensen (such a fun name!) in the perennial Stephen Glass blue shirt from the movie Shattered Glass (which I should rewatch!):

While looking for pictures for this last part, I came across this review of Shattered Glass from 2003 in Slate. I actually don't think I read this one in the past (which sort of surprised me, since I have read so, so much about everything Stephen Glass). 

I found this other picture of him as portrayed in the movie Shattered Glass, and I noticed a little something about the costume design. The (mostly blue colored) shirts that Stephen wears in the movie have a fairly billowy fit to them (and I do realize that was the style in the back then, compared to nowadays). But, if you look closely, they also are too big for him in the shoulders. I think that was a nice touch by the costume department people, to convey his youth and insecurity, among other things.