Last night we were driving down I-44 on our way home from Tulsa and when we passed the casino I noticed, on their flashy electronic sign, the word “Saliva” in bold, bright red. It confused me for just a second but then I noticed a future date and time below the word and realized that it must be the name of a band. And I thought, as I have so many times in the past 20 years, “The world has run out of band names.”

November 22nd, 2010 - 8:23 am
Many, many years ago, in grade school, one of the Creative Writing stories I wrote featured a villain named Sal Iva. I thought I was being so clever and “bad.”