‘Tis The Season to sell the textbooks your parents paid for and spend that money on beer!
Textbook buyback at the SkidShop and through BellTower Books is currently in effect, so unless you’re actually planning on using them to study for finals now would be the perfect time to turn those useless tomes into cash.
Whatta Guy!
Oh man, today is the day the SkidShop ends the world by sucking us all into a black hole of fun. In the morning stuff is going to be discounted and at night everything is going to be fun.
Everything starts at 7pm and the annual Skidmore Shop fashion show begins around 8pm with all the latest Skidmore branded couture. At 8:30 the winners of the $1,000 Apple Product give away will be announced. You must be present in order to actually win. If your name gets picked and you’re somewhere else, like in Burgess flirting with the girl that serves donuts or something, you will feel like an idiot for missing your chance to win an iPad. You will also feel like an idiot when I win the iPad and use it to make you feel like an idiot.
There will be live music from Sime Gezus and Life Every Voice and DJ Kirsten and DJ George (they’re totally famous trust me) will be playing music and there is going to be a truckload of free food from D-Hall. D-Hall will need to literally shut down because all of the food will be in the SkidShop for people to eat. For free.
The sweeping links of Saratoga National will help you forget all of your privileged troubles
You may have noticed that the headline of this particular post seems to suggest some sort of group sex activity. I feel a little bad about grabbing your attention like that, I’m sorry. Just to clarify this post has nothing to do with group sex, if you are looking for a website about group sex try elsewhere.
Tonight, while the SkidShop hands out Five Guys coupons, the Skidmore Golf team will use some sort of WASPy witchcraft to set up a driving range INSIDE the store where you will be able to channel all of your pent up aggression into hitting a small ball really hard. Skidmore Golf Head Coach David Bakyta will be giving free lessons and you will be able to challenge the team to little contests. One lucky winner will take home a free round of golf at Saratoga National Golf Course for them and three friends (hence foursome).
My knowledge of golf is limited to Arizona brand Arnold Palmers and the Tiger Woods text message transcripts but everyone at the bar I worked at this summer always had their panties in a bundle about how nice of a golf course Saratoga National is. A four person round of golf is valued at around 400 bucks, which means it must be fancy.
Show up between 5pm and 7pm for free burgers and a ball whacking.
Zoinks!
Ugh. I know this is slowly turning into a website about how cool the SkidShop is, and I know that is ‘lame’ and ‘uncool’ and not in accordance with my ‘hip image’ around campus so I promise I’ll try and chill my boner for all the great stuff they are doing. But first some updates:
The SkidShop is running a competition where you scour the campus for QR codes which are these weird, alien language things that nerds know about and that cell phone cameras are somehow able to ‘read’ and ‘decode’ and like, I don’t know, understand somehow.Anyway, you download a QR code reader and then go around finding and reading all of the barely hidden codes (3 in total) and then you bring the clues to textbook buyback and you get entered into a drawing to win TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS to spend on textbooks, which means you’ll have more money to spend on Keystone light, which mans you will be more socially accepted at parties, which means you will have more friends, which means you will be more prepared for the real world. This competition is preparing you for the real world!
I probably did a terrible job explaining that so if you have any questions try asking the people that work in the SkidShop.
This Tuesday is the third SkidShop Two For Tuesday so if you buy a hat you get a free scarf. This is the perfect way to bang out your holiday shopping without having to leave campus/actually try.
In general I’m in support of free things, which is why I like the Skidshop. In addition to being my favorite place to buy pens and bubble gum the Skidshop also seems to have missed the point of capitalism, abandoned any sort of profitability model and adopted a policy wherein they rain free things down upon us from the lofty heavens they have somehow tricked their way into.
I am speaking of course of the Skidshop’s upcoming Dec. 8th event where they will give away 1,000 bucks worth of Apple products, provide us with food, sell us cheap water bottles, play music for our ears and then tuck us into our cozy little beds with a kiss. The event is also a fashion show, and a concert, and a party, and free.
If you’re one of those people that says annoying stuff about how textbooks are so expensive and wah wah wah then you’ll be interested to know that the Skidshop is also running a competition where you point your cellphone at these little secret codes they’ve scattered around campus and then get a chance to win 250 dollars worth of textbooks so you can get smarter.
Today is Tuesday and that means if you go into the SkidShop and buy a t-shirt between 5pm and 7pm you get a second t-shirt for free. T-shirts are fantastic and great to wear on your body and you can never have too many.
While you’re in the SkidShop buying two t-shirts for the price of one you can also enter yourself in the $1,000 Apple Product Give Away Raffle (1000APGAR).
See that handsome fellow on the right? The well dressed guy with the intelligent gaze? that is Bob Carlton and he is a member of The band Dryer, he also works at the Skidshop and is the dude responsible for all the free pizza and Apple products.
If you’re cool you’ve heard Dryer on the DAs jukebox, if you’re really cool you’re in their Top 8 on MySpace. Anyway, they are playing tonight at Putnam Den and all the cool people in the world are going to be there dancing and singing along and drinking 3 dollar PBRs and high fiveing.
21+ 7 bucks
18+ 12 bucks
Doors at 9:30
Books are great! Books are probably how I am going to earn my living! Books are what I like to talk to you about when we’re done talking about the weather! Some books are smart and some books are dumb! Some books are two for one!
Yep, SkidShop will help you get laid. Show up tonight between 5pm and 7pm and select books will be BUY ONE GET ONE FREE. Do you have any idea how exciting this is? After tonight every single Skidmore student should have a bedside table full of reading material, every Skidmore student will carry around novels and strike up conversations outside of Burgess about how Freedom was better than The Corrections, every single Skidmore student will pile their books high and proud. You are intelligent and I love you. You are intelligent and you love yourself.
Today between 5 and 7pm is also a great time to come into the shop and enter your name in the raffle to win some free stuff from the Steve Jobs Empire. More on this later but for now know that shit is gonna get crazy come December.
This morning the Skidmore Shop sold me a pen because I forgot to put one in my pocket when I left my house and this evening the Skidmore Shop served me free Nunzio’s pizza because my refrigerator is empty. Tomorrow the Skidmore Shop will sell me deeply discounted art supplies and next week they will give me a free sweatshirt when I buy one of equal or lesser value. I do not deserve any of this but continue to reap the benefits.
On Wednesday and Thursday most art supplies at the Skidmore Shop will be 30% off between 5 and 7pm. I am not a business major or anything like that but I honestly cannot figure out how discounts of this size are a viable business option. Also, if I was an Art Major or liked art or whatever I would buy a shit ton of art supplies and keep them under my bed or something because last time I checked art supplies are really expensive.
November 2nd is the first SkidShop Two for Tuesday where you buy something and then get a second one free. Nov. 2nd if you buy a sweatshirt the random free thing you get is “a sweatshirt of equal or lesser value.” More information about this equally baffling business model available here.
I live around the corner from Nunzio’s store and it is a pretty weird place. They sell organic pasta sauce and potatoes by the pound but never have milk for my coffee and once I went there and got a delicious eggplant parmagiana but it took them like 40 minutes to make. Also they harshed my mellow when I asked if they sold cigarettes. Whatever.
Nunzio’s recently topped Pope’s and Cusato’s to advance into the semi-finals of the All Over Albany 2010 Tournament of Pizza and they will be outside the Skidshop tonight from 5-7pm giving away free stuff.
