Monthly Archives: July 2012
Chili Relleno Review
I love chili rellenos. In any Mexican food restaurant, I search the menu for my delicacy of those stuffed and breaded peppers, which despite any particular description appear as everything from a specially imported pepper from the far reaches of South America to a bell pepper smaller than I could grow in my back yard […]
On Immigration and the Minimum Wage
I am fundamentally opposed to taking wages out of marketplace valuation; however, too many employers are willing to take extreme advantage of unskilled laborers, replacing long-term employees with teenagers or illegal immigrants who work for near nothing, causing harm to the individuals as well as the overall economy. My argument is that the United States […]
Small Town Does Our Town
When a small theater group in a small town takes on a classic of Broadway, one’s expectations can be—how should I say this?—dim. Therefore, when I was invited to the opening night of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning Our Town at the Gaslight Baker Theater in Lockhart, Texas (a town known best for its barbecue and barbecue feuds), I accepted […]
Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked – Novel Summary
Caution: This post was written as part of an academic exercise and contains plot spoilers. – Bill Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked centers on Annie, a museum curator in the town of Gooleness in northern England, and her relationships with her boyfriend, Duncan, and a reclusive former rock singer, Tucker Crowe. Duncan is obsessed with Crowe’s life and […]
Literary fiction writer, doctoral literature student, believer, seller of antiquities and junk, woodworker, traveler, and all-round error maker. 
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