Helllllooo everyone! My name is Steve Mazzari and I'm in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, and this will be my RIVETING blog for Writing 101's "Queer Writing Practices." Here I hope to discuss the vast and sensitive issues of sexuality, LGBT culture, the evolution of the "queer" population and its relationship with society, etc. through literature. But before all that, I guess I should go into further detail on myself to give a better understanding of where my opinions and thoughts are coming from.
On January 5 1995, the second and final child (SPOILER: it's me) was born to Steven James and Lauren Mazzari in a cozy suburb of Montclair, New Jersey. Being raised in an Irish-Italian household, I went to the small Catholic school in my town where my mother worked as an English teacher, and later principal, up until 8th grade and then proceeded to Regis High School, an all dudes, all free, Catholic school in the big apple. That's right; I lived in New Jersey, but went to high school in the city. Strange, I know, but that's what happened. There I ran cross country and track for four long but happy years and finally ended up someway, somehow on this campus. Other random facts about myself include sweet guitar skills, life-guarding, and a crippling addiction to the show "Supernatural" (Hey, what can I say, it's a good show!)
I have always had a religious presence in my life, and although I'm not a particularly spiritual kind of person, I keep my Catholic upbringing and lifestyle to this day; however, don't assume that my faith will have anything to do with much if any of my blog. I guess I don't have "traditional Catholic beliefs" on certain matters but then again I would argue that's a very debatable statement. I overall don't have very strong opinions on a lot of stuff, but sometimes I can get pretty into an argument so we'll see if I can avoid sticking my foot in my mouth on the internet. I don't have anything of value to really add to the readings we've already done, but I have to say The Price of Salt has yet to truly grab me; that said, very curious as to how it will pan out.
That's it for now. Tune in again soon!
I'm from the other side of NYC suburbs on Long Island, and even though I didn't have years of commuting to school there, I at least did have 2 summers of commuting there to work everyday, so I can sort of understand that whole hassle (at least compared to commuting within your town). I do have to say that I disagree with you about The Price of Salt - I'm not quite sure what it is with that book but I am LOVING what I've read so far.
ReplyDeleteNew Jersey? You're so lucky! Whenever I ask international friends they've always heard of New Jersey but never Delaware. And as for "sticking my foot in my mouth on the internet", I think I'm going to beat you to the punch as I rarely stymie whatever I'm trying to say online. The Price of Salt will hopefully resemble a lot of other books because the introductions never seem to attract me but after around the halfway point I just have to finish them.
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