Rick Moody writes an ode to Tucson. He begins:
“It was 114 degrees fahrenheit in Tucson, Arizona, when I arrived the other day. This is not a temperature that most Americans are used to, but then Tucson is not a town that most Americans would find familiar. . . “
An “ode to Tucson” indeed. What a load of hogwash. This “ode” did nothing but irritate the crap out of me and all the commenters to that site. The only truth I read – besides my life-long love of monsoons – was, “alternative to what has to be among the ugliest and most unlovable of American cities, Phoenix.” And his whole theory of the Loughner/Giffords shooting was crap!