Blogger’s note: this is a post from an earlier time! I took it down on accident, so here it is back again! “Hey, that’s my dress from fifth grade!” Scene: my sisters and I are looking over one of the many crazy quilts that our mother made during her life. Her method was simple. First, […]
Tag: music
Greased pig (the musical version)
Although I haven’t read any primary sources on the topic, I imagine the term “greased pig” to be a holdover from the old days of the state fair. Officials would choose a likely young pig, smear it all over with something akin to bacon grease (hah! Very meta, don’t you think?) and turn it loose […]
Would you like fire with that?
For about six weeks in the summer of 1980, I worked as a cocktail waitress in the Club Candalejas, a salsa (music) bar in Hollywood, California. I had worked as a waitress before, but this was my first time in the dog-eat-dog world of a bona fide cocktail lounge. Nobody had their own station: we […]