{"id":62,"date":"2009-01-13T23:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinagonzalez.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/13\/hodgepodge\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T23:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T23:57:28","slug":"hodgepodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/hodgepodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodgepodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

My latest piece for The Escapist is up<\/a>. I was happy to see
\nthat it got the lead spot on the homepage for the week. I don\u2019t know how that
\ndecision is made, but it was certainly nice to see. This piece was a bit
\npersonal, sprung out of a little reflection last summer about Silent Hill 4<\/em>. I
\ndecided to do some further reading on Hispanic female video game characters
\nonly to discover that no one had written it yet. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I read an editorial over the summer by author Steven Saylor<\/a>,
\nwhose Roma Sub Rosa<\/em> series I read in its entirety last year, where he
\nsaid something along the lines of: writers are always advised to write what
\nthey know, but a writer should write the story he or she would like to read.
\nThis was in reference to fiction, but it\u2019s definitely equally applicable to
\nnonfiction. So I saw an opportunity and ran with it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In other news, I joined Twitter a while back and I\u2019m finally
\nstarting to use it a little bit. At first, all I had was Greg Grunberg on my
\nfollow list, but now I\u2019ve added some other interesting people. What an
\namazingly trivial concept, yet such an addictive site. I must say that LeVar
\nBurton has one of the coolest tattoos <\/a>I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s an ambigram of his
\nfirst name and \u201cKunta\u201d, a tribute, of course, to his Roots role. Dan Brown may
\nhave brought ambigrams into the popular conscious, but LeVar\u2019s tattoo made them
\ncool.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Finally, the Times Square Virgin Megastore is set to close
\nin April<\/a>. I haven\u2019t bought a CD there in a while, but that store holds so many
\nmemories for me. I went there very frequently as a teen, attended signings,
\nin-store concerts, and sometimes just considered it a throbbing, lively, oasis
\nwhere I could drop in to listen to some of my favorite new songs and wander
\naround what seemed to me quite the cool location. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The prices were sometimes a tad high, but sale time was the
\nbest. Lots of gems to be had. Apparently, a six-million dollar annual profit
\nisn\u2019t enough for the chain\u2019s new owners. The location is set to house a Century
\n21 discount designer clothing shop. I recall Century 21 liked to advertise
\nitself as \u201cNY\u2019s best kept secret\u201d. Hard to live up to that when you\u2019re taking a
\nprime Times Square area location. No matter. If it hadn\u2019t been C21, it would\u2019ve
\nbeen another client willing to fork over the cash. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even for this native kid, this store was a destination. Say
\nwhat you will about big box type places, but this one going is a loss. I loved
\nhow the jazz and vocal section was so quiet, even though the rest of the store
\nhad loud, pumping music throughout. The last time I was there was for Christmas
\nshopping last year, and it was still the same chaotic, bright place. And I\u2019m
\nsure it will remain so until April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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