So with the promotional giveaway of Dreams of the Boardwalk coming up, I decided it was time to share a few pieces of artwork I commissioned for the story.
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Category: Essay
Characters of Hometown: Valerie Robard
So here we see Vicki just hanging out with her best friend Valerie Robard.
Val is another one of the bad girls of Belford High. Sort of. She likes a lot of the same things that Vicki does, certainly – she likes to party, she likes to drink, she likes to smoke a few nugs now and then, and she’s very easy to talk out of her knickers. Especially when she’s been partying and drinking and smoking a few nugs.
The difference is that she’s not magnificent in her bad girl-ness like Vicki is. Where Vicki is angry and defiant, Val is timid and submissive. Or rather, as Natasha VanDyne and the other snobs would put it, Vicki is a bitch and Val is just a dumb trailer trash ho. The teachers and other adult authority figures of Belford mostly agree with that assessment, though they’re more likely to use words like “troublemaker” and “underachiever”.
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On The Truth of Rock and Roll – Part 1: The Inspiration
I started The Truth of Rock and Roll shortly after my first wife told me we were through.
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Tough Girls Post Added To Essays and Reviews Page
Tough Girls, Class Differences and Rape Culture has been added to the Reviews and Essays page. I decided to bring this over from my old blog early on, since it’s key to understanding several other essays that are coming up soon.
I’m proud of this essay, but it’s pretty raw. Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault.