1. Your idea for a new campus publication
2. The fact that Anderson Cooper will probably never stick it in me and rotate it around 360 degrees
3. Guys named Matt
4. The Triangle casting futon
5. That time I was owned by Disney and couldn’t express myself creatively
6. Super-secret inside jokes. I’d buy that for a dollar!
7. Name-dropping my friend Will Smith
8. “The Veggie Monster”
9. 2007
10. Facebook statuses taken from movie quotes, i.e., Marla Swiggenbottom is “DRINKS YOUR MILKSHAKE”
11. The Unbearable Whiteness of Terrace
12. Your Confederate flag
13. Your picture of 185 in 185
14. When Harry Met Sally Met Edward II Met RoboCop: A Dramatic Ballad in One Act
15. G-chatting my sister. Why doesn’t she just pick up her phone?
16. The credit crunch and its soberingeffect on “CEOs and Office Hos” parties
17. Facebook’s “Remember 9/11” Super-Poke
18. That scene in Transformers 2 where Shia LaBeouf drunk-drives through Frist
19. The ending of A Prayer for Owen Meany
20. Food in my rubber bands in my braces
21. Whenever you tell me oranges appear in every murder scene in The Godfather
22. That week I thought it was gender-radical to call men “cunts”
23. Children: learn to grip things already
24. “I actually don’t go to Princeton. My name is Marcus Beaton; I’m British; and I’m a lord.”
25. Your tear-stained copy of Franny and Zooey
26. Your semen-stained copy of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
27. Everything I learned about you from reading your email, like, twice a day for two years
28. Forlornicating on my staycation
29. How you thought you were the only white person in China
30. The race-consciousness you gained from watching The Wire
31. “Muscular” and/or “workmanlike” prose
32. Trying to fit Willy through the Underground Whaleroad
33. Making love on the Cape
34. When you say “on the Cape”
35. That time all those reporters thought I was hiding from them in a Los Angeles bathroom when really I just had to pee for like fifteen minutes
36. “Bicker narratives”
37. Any rapper who is not Lil’ Wayne, Pope of the South
38. The sense of gloom pervading all forms of popular entertainment
39. Talking points
40. Toilet-paper mummy contests insensitive to the burial rites of my Egyptian ancestors
41. When my gynecologist gets all Patch Adams on me
42. When Paul Giamatti gets all John Adams on me
43. Am I gay?
44. Things that go bump in the night
45. Things that take dumps in the night
46. “Quiet acne”
47. Deadjournal
48. The Tower Social Omniverse
49. Tickle Me Elmo! and other sex toys
50. When I say “Gesundheit” because I don’t believe in God
51. Sleep apnea
52. My college friends
53. Go back to England, Ricky Gervais
54. Mead halls
55. Your toddler’s Jim Morrison t-shirt
56. Studying Italian in college so that a Tuscan aristocrat will pick you up in Florence during your semester abroad and take you to his villa and, like, love you, like, forever
57. Taking Chinese in college “for business purposes”
58. Your internship
59. Seriously, when do you italicize stuff?
60. The Prince. Just kidding, The Prince is awesome. Just kidding.
61. Whenever I hide my true opinion of the 1967 borders because I’m trying to make out with an Arab girl
62. Downloading porno when you can just stream it
63. Streaming SNL clips when you can not watch them
64. Brooklyn
65. Sneeze muffins
66. Whenever I run into Larry Kornreich getting his “swell on” in Central Park
67. Gun shots at the end of every rap record
68. Gun shots at the beginning of every rap record
69. Your secret underground Heidegger reading group
70. Your secret underground Boxcar Children reading group
71. Cold stoopin’
72. That time I commented on Gawker and checked again and again for comments on my comment, only to wind up commenting again
73. Waking up one morning to discover you talk like a sly cat
74. Cliteralizing the metaphor
75. Harping harpists
76. The Princeton Classics Dept. Presents: Gettin’ Dithyrambunctious!!!
77. Yoko Onanism
78. “John McCain is your new penny-farthing”
79. Under-appreciating the hand-job
80. Those times
81. David Sedaris: Living, breathing proof that talent is irrelevant, that success is a marketing decision, and that taste-making audiences seek only the basest recapitulation of their own insipid tics and mannerisms
82. David Sedaris’s face
83. Trying to come up with a rhyme for “lonely”
84. “Philanthropic immunity”
85. I’m sad
86. The time my vagina quivered under the bristles of Wolf Blitzer’s mustache
87. Remaining in a dysfunctional relationship because your girlfriend’s got awesome ‘scripts
88. BBMing while I PJ
89. David Duchovny’s sex addiction
90. Ringo
91. Oboists
92. Hysterical-reality television
93. Aliza Shvart and her menstrual art
94. Dengue fever (not the band). [Funny story: I actually had dengue fever when I was fifteen. Even funnier story: I got it while on tour with the Smith College Orchestra in Trinidad and Tobago!!! I was the only boy. –Ed.]
95. Silver LightningTM
96. These days
97. Ironic diner food
98. Playing chicken with a Public Safety officer, only to get shot by his partner
99. Latter-day Buddhists turned Latter-day Saints
100. That night I held you and we just laughed and cried till morning