rockabilly night

A man at a bar called me a "dirty spic" this weekend. Earlier this week, I was hanging out with some brown folk and a friend dropped in on us. "Who invited the white girl?" someone asked when my friend C ...Read More

Rockabillied

At the reading I gave last Thursday, I read a short piece on how people on my mother's side of the family can't sing. My father on the other hand, had a wonderful singing voice, and my mom boasted of this ...Read More

A (Patrilineal) Chorus Line

On Monday, George Saunders came to Pitt. I went to a Q&A session after lunch, asked him about what it was like to transition from fiction to nonfiction. He answered that he felt as though he was holding back the ...Read More

Happenings & Goings On

I've posted this elsewhere on my journal, but it's still a legitimate question! I'm sorry for the length, but the background is necessary (I think). So I have this friend (no, really). Before she turned 21 she never drank and ...Read More

Losing Respect or Just Jealous?