Tanner Horst ’13
HC: Relationship status?
TH: Swinging Single
HC: Major / Minor?
TH: Political Theory major, Greek minor
HC: Hometown?
TH: Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
HC: Favorite spot on campus?
TH: The old foyer to the art museum, beautiful murals
HC: Favorite Bowdoin meal?
TH: Super Snacks on Thursday nights, though mostly for the entertainment– the studious, their faces glowing sickly in the light of their laptops, eating to feel alive, bubbly dance-pop mocking them from above. Also: the only Super Snacks at which the student body is trusted with soup.
HC: If you had to take any celebrity on a date, who would it be?
TH: Annie Oakley. Beauty, gunpowder… an assumed “Raiders of the Lost Ark”-style alcoholism… What more could a man desire?
HC: How did you spend your summer?
TH: I spent my summer sleeping in a tree house and sailing a Pearson 30 all about Boothbay Harbor. Among other things: Reading “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, thinking about how fantastic “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was, and trying to keep a chittering, devil-worshipping red squirrel out of my house.
HC: Ideal job?
TH: I’d like to pursue a career as the eccentric recluse in some remote mountain village, preferably after a tumultuous stint in the public eye.
HC: Alter-ego?
TH: Diogenes of Sinope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope– for those of you who, like me, don’t know what that is)
HC: Song you could listen to on repeat?
TH: So Long, Marianne, by Leonard Cohen
HC: Tocqueville or Tupac? / Rousseau or Rihanna?
TH: I couldn’t imagine a realer (or, for that matter, a fresher) posse than the combination of Tupac Shakur and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.