Excerpt of a letter to a friend abroad:
Things you are missing by not being here include: gritty slush, static clinging thermal underwear, monochromatic skies, republicans, pink lambskin mukluks on eighty pound bulimics, syllabuses, reality television ( I use the term loosely), football, ethnocentrism, I-80, and of course one that you should miss if you don’t...Heileman’s Old Style.