We just launched a social justice blog which will probably take up most of my newly renewed blogging energy.
Birnbaum & IDT were mentioned in an LA Times Op-Ed today, "All literature is local" by Susan Straight: "A FEW WEEKS ago, I spent an afternoon in Boston with Robert Birnbaum, who conducts interviews for identitytheory.com, and an evening with Tim Huggins, who owns Newtonville Books just outside the city. We had a great time talking about novels and writers because we are all three in love with regionalists."
I recently ate Taco Bell on Neptune Beach, where I was visiting Louis and his girlfriend and a spoiled-to-death bulldog named Bailey. Taco Bell! It was very ninth grade. I even got cinnamon crisps. Taco Bell is a place I visit once a decade to remind myself why I spend so much money at Whole Foods.
Getting to Neptune Beach (near Jacksonville) from Gainesville involves driving through Starke, which houses the State Prison where Ted Bundy was executed in January 1989, the same month I originally moved to Florida (as a fifth grader). Starke is one of the more interesting towns in the Sunshine State because it's so incredibly reliant on the criminal element. I would imagine staying at one of the run-down, cheap motels frequented by low-income families of convicted felons would be a memorable and film-plot worthy experience. But don't expect me to ever actually stop in that town, unless I'm really desperate for gas.
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