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Next deadline: January 1, 2015

Letter from the

inter break is almost upon us - but
Werew it, I’m not going to write about
the holidays. You know it’s happening, it
happens every year, and it isn’t going to be
any different this year. In fact, the holidays
are only going to get worse when you're done
school, because life is just going to continue
as normal until maybe December 24, if you
deserve a couple days off. I’d rather write
about anything else. Anything at all.

Relatively old people are instagramming.
They’re taking selfies and using hashtags,

causing the rapid decline of their cool factor.

Popular Facebook groups are being used
as search engines, Twitter is a home base
for celebrities to complain about how rich
they are, and Snapchat recently revealed
that it can be used for money transfers.

Coolness now seems to be directly related to

itor

social injustice. South Park, which long ago
lost it’s coolness after years of fart jokes, is
becoming cool again - because as a show, it
started adding humour to things like cys-
genderism and MTV news. Knowing what’s
happening in the world is cool. Riding your
bike is cool. Middle agers using kik is not
cool, so lets all just stop encouraging them.

(In case you're wondering, I’m not cool.)