Charles Jensen | Writer

Why is it no one in Phoenix sells The Wizard of Oz?

Let’s put that on the list of questions I never thought I’d ask.

Yesterday I won the divisional title in the first annual Piper Center Scrabble Tournament.
Some fun words played: “devoted,” “elixir.” Neither played by me.
I won on a technicality.

What I am taking to Mexico:

Every DVD of Buffy, for research
A yoga DVD
Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw
Mary Gaitskill’s Two Girls, Fat and Thin
A half-written novel

What I hope to come back with:

answers.