Biscuits and gravy

At all of the Bread Loaf campuses, there is a newsletter that comes out each week, and in some cases every day. This is for the general diffusion of news and things of note for everyone to be aware of. Because we are the "Bread Loaf" school, each of these newsletters has a name in reference to that. In Vermont, it's "The Crumb." In Santa Fe, it's "La Miga." Here in Asheville, it's "The Biscuit".

I enjoy reading The Biscuit each Monday to see the events and news of the week. But why would I bother to tell you this? Here's the funny part. A few of my fellow students decided to get a little creative in their spare time this week. So they came out with their own underground publication, "The Gravy" as a result. (Who can have their biscuit without some gravy?) As a newspaper adviser, I found the whole thing quite hilarious.

Here are some gems:

• a recounting of Bread Loaf Asheville's First Annual YouTube clip festival held on Tuesday night. In honor of the red carpet for the event: "The most noted names in fashion were of course represented, particularly Teva, Crocs, Chacos, and Old Navy."

• an announcement of the tent city festival coming to Asheville on July 19

• suggested costumes for tomorrow night's Southern Exposure Ball
my favorite: "come as Atlanta (burning, of course)"

• the announcement that there will be a War of Northern Aggression Ball as an after party to Southern Exposure

• palindrome of the week: DAD (see if you can find it!)

• overheard in class and said by one of the professors: "Britney Spears, Dolly Parton, and Bill Clinton are the triumphs of American White Trash." (notice how they all hail from the South!)

I have it on good authority that The Biscuit will respond to this renegade publication on Monday...stay tuned!