Word

I have spent a lot of time in Baton Rouge thinking about how people communicate with each other, maybe even more specifically how they speak to or with each other. When I was in the graduate program at LSU I started a newsletter called the Underground Third hoping to help the English graduate students of all people talk to each other more about what was going on in their lives. It worked to a degree - I mean, I think the newsletter sparked some fun conversations, but it rarely catapulted people into meaningful discussions. I like to think that's why the dang thing didn't last after I left; it never dug in deep enough to get people to care about it beyond a good laugh. I've since tried to write for a couple of different publications in Baton Rouge, and have become a crazy blogaholic, it seems. But I'm hoping that this newest endeavor birthed by an amazing lady will take hold of the whole of Baton Rouge in a big-ass, bad-ass super delicious way. Sweet Tooth is after all a chance to critique, to hold art to a standard. Who does that?! Well, we all do - and now we all have a platform for that conversation.

Random big ups to my favorite events calendar in Baton Rouge thus far - I love you CHERRY!

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Footnote: Here are references #4, #5, #6 - all journalistic, artsy bits of goodness (one in perhaps permanent hibernation - boo) that will ever have a soft spot in my Baton Rouge heart.