October 2008
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Hometown Aspirations: Reality TV
I grew up in a town where it was a big deal if you went to college at all, even community college. Hell, it was a ginormous deal if you got accepted by a four-year school that wasn’t a UC or a CSU. A lot of people in Downey thought Stanford was spelled “Standford” and that it was on the East Coast, somewhere in between Harvard and Yale.
But what I always sensed from my peers was...
Now that I am 24, I look 16.
Hooray. Everyone should go to Austin City Limits for their birthday, I’ve decided, accompanied by a trip to the good ol’ Salt Lick in Driftwood, TX (I once agreed to go to a wedding in San Antonio for the sole purpose of procuring a car to make the pilgrimage to the Salt Lick and Austin) and Stubb’s downtown. S’mores at Halcyon (twice!) and a Salt Lick sausage sandwich...