Salt City Sinner

posted on x by the Salt City Sinner By now, most of you will have heard that I will not be finishing the remainder of this year as your Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor. Because a number of most hurtful and unseemly rumours have been heard circulating amongst my students, I have kindly been allowed to issue the following clarifications. You WILL still be expected to pass the extemporaneous written examination on “Contract Law In Norse Mythology And The Origins Of Complex Fraud And Trickster Gods” (I suggest you refer to your notes from class throughout May for the purposes of this exercise -- a three page essay should suffice here) . The same does not hold true for my one-day lecture on “Faustian Bargains In Goethe And Marlowe,” however, which has been redacted in its entirety. You are required to find and turn in your notes from this lecture. You will still be expected to perform two simple and one complex banishment(s) to pass your OWLS. Any lecture n...

posted 2/22/2013 by the Salt City Sinner Bountiful, Utah In my family, only my sister is a native-born Utahn. My parents were both tumblin' tumbleweeds for most of their lives, although they met and fell in love in Salt Lake City, where my father was studying at the University of Utah and my mother was waiting tables after a stint as a cross-country drifter and scallywag. Other portions of my clan have settled in Boise, Tampa, Pittsburgh, etc. -- I myself was born (as I noted in a previous post   here ) in Grand Junction, Colorado. Despite my status as an immigrant to Utah, however, the place in which I have lived the longest over the course of my life was Bountiful, Utah, a medium-sized town about ten minutes north of Salt Lake City -- close enough, in fact, that Bountiful bleeds into the suburb of North Salt Lake with no appreciable boundary to speak of. Since I moved back to Utah almost a decade ago, I've had a few opportunities (if you can call them that) to vi...

Posted by: ViewFinder 11/18/2012 Photography by:  Melodía Gutiérrez As Thanksgiving Day rapidly approaches many Salt Lake families are struggling financially more so than in recent years past.  These families are now faced with not having the means to purchase the traditional Turkey for their Thanksgiving feast. For 13 years now a Salt Lake resident, Frank Cordova has organized within the Latino and Salt Lake community to gather thousands of turkeys to benefit families in need.   This year a call was put out in desperation pleading with the community to assist in the efforts of this amazing project "Annual Latinio Turkey Drive".  Because Mr. Frank Cordova (pictured above on the far right) has been quite ill and his focus has been a battle for his health as of late- it seemed as though the project would not reap the multitude of donations as in years past.  "Since I began this drive twelve years ago, every year I've been excited to see the community c...