I know the Daily Texan only covered my poetry reading because summer is slow news times for the campus paper. That’s fine. I don’t care. Check it out: http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/07/11/University/Featured.Photo.between.The.Lines-3390141.shtml
Also, unrelated to me (somewhat), they’re having a big old state senate scandal back home, which, in its most lurid iteration, involves a girl I interned with at Rep. DeWeese’s office accepting a ghost job in exchange for sex. This is the Philadelphia Enquirer story–I’d post the local paper’s version, except the Philly reporter obviously had a lot more fun trotting out the seamy details (disgraced former beauty queen, dingy office above a cigar shop in Pittsburgh). This girl and I interned together the summer after my freshman year at CMU, when saying that you were interning for a Democrat still got you some “have some more lipgloss, Monica” giggles, and she didn’t do any work then, either. I remember one day working on some big mailing for a deadline, and pretty much spending all day on it while Angie dicked around on the internet, occasionally asking me how, for example, to spell karaoke. And I would go, K-A-R-A-O-K-E and she would go, “No, I don’t think that’s right.” I guess I should keep stories like this on hand for anybody who thinks my stories about southwestern Pennsylvania are too surreal or ironic.
