TGIF

April 25, 2008

Amen to that. (did you know Jeff Goldblum was in this movie?)

It’s been such a long week; i’m so glad it’s Friday.

Last night was another function for the Literary Arts Festival that i’m a part of at the college where I teach. The readers were all local/San Diego writers and included:

Jim Miller read from his novel Drift.

his lovely wife Kelly Mayhew who read from Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

Adrian Arancibia (who did some amazing spoken word poetry)

and Mel Freilicher who read from his fascinating book The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives, which looks at the lives of Dorothy Dandridge, Bettie Page, Joey Stefano, Margaret Fuller, Margaret Sanger, Bayard Rustin, Billy Stayhorn, through biography, poetry, and prose. “Fact and fantasy mingle in this work which looks squarely at grave social and personal ills - abuse, prejudice, neglect, and loss - while heralding the intellectual and creative triumphs of seven provocative figures from history.”

One of my favorite parts of the night was during Jim Miller’s reading from Drift, where the character refers to San Diego as

Bland Diego

hilarious.